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food, grocery, packaging, sustainability in Good Business Will a Zero-Packaging Grocery Store Work?
Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 5:15PM Via Good
You know what I hate? I hate it when you need fresh herbs but the grocery store forces you to buy a huge bunch at a thyme (haha lame joke). But seriously. How much cilantro can you use in a week? I absolutely love the idea behind In.gredients, a zero-packaging grocery store to open in Texas. Not only is it awesome that you can buy as much or as little as you need, you get to eliminate all the waste you would usually create from a grocery shopping trip.
In an ideal world, this would become the norm and we reverse our wasteful ways. In the real world, I wonder how many people would be skeeved out by unpackaged goods. Let's hope In.gredients is a sucess.
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I love the concept too and am all for its environmentally friendly ways, but would hate to think what would happen if one opened here in China... lots of dirty hands rustling through things, taste-testing, mixing of ingredients in a single container. Also, at least that photo of the store in the UK seems to show that the food bins aren't covered.
I also wonder whether shopping at a place like this, where you have to bring all of your containers (which, if they're glass, are heavy), would encourage more people to drive to the store as they have to make grocery shopping a deliberate trip rather than a dropping-by-to-pick-up-some-stuff event. Lugging those pre-filled containers around on foot or on a bike means it's harder to do other things while you're out.
Despite my concerns, I do hope it's a success and ends up having a net benefit to the environment.
Sorry, by pre-filled I meant prior to filling...as in empty. And bulky. :P
Yea, I wonder how they'll handle the hygiene issue. I think they'd need to hire people (with gloves) to fill up your containers.