The People's Supermarket
Here is an interesting alternative to the controversial methods and process of the retail industry. This experience comes from across the channel and asks only to be exported... The concept: in exchange for 4 hours (unpaid) per month, and a modest fee, customers will benefit in return a 10% discount on products (local, artisanal and organic) sold by their supermarket - and thus help keep prices low by reducing personnel costs.

The People's Supermarket allows its community - an unprivileged neighborhood in London - to reinvent the way its members do their shopping: the choice of marketed products, suppliers, store hours, the business strategy, everything is voted by members. Imagine that we can complete the business model with a complementary currency system ...

Arthur Potts Dawson and Kate Wickes-Bull may have given rise to the cooperative ideal distribution model?