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?