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Good Life Market - Portland's first package free grocery and retail market!
Good Life Market will be the first grocery store in Portland to sell all products unpackaged or if in packaging, compostable and reusable—in fact, almost everything in the shop will be compostable or reusable. From milk, fresh fruits, and vegetables, bulk snacks, pasta, many types of glass jars, kitchen and household aides, laundry accouterments, to health and beauty products like zero waste makeup and bamboo toothbrushes, the store will provide for the products on your weekly shopping list. Good Life Market combines an easier and more convenient way for people to shop zero waste while introducing more healthy and sustainable products at those bulk prices.
We need to raise 45K to both solidify our location and prove to our investors that the community desires this new way to shop. Once we have met our goal, the brick and mortar store build out can begin AND our current interested group of investors can officially sign on to support the rest of the funds needed for a 2019 Summer launch!
Good Life Market will also have a cafe where during store hours, customers can enjoy sustainably sourced coffee and locally source snacks. After store hours, space transforms into a workshop space to support classes in many types of sustainable and green interest topics like food preserving, canning, make your own ( fill in the blank), zero waste living, clean closets and kitchens, green cooking classes and more.
This shopping model may be new here, but it is not new in other locations around the globe- over 336 to be exact! These stores found in Europe, Canada, and a handful here in the USA that have popped up the last decade have proved wildly successful. Consumers are realizing more and more the excess waste our normal grocery shopping causes. In embracing this new wave of shopping, these same consumers are reaping the fringe benefits of healthier eating and overall cost savings.
Good Life Market's underlying ethos of ecological conservation, minimalism and healthy living is a mainstay of the Portland community and its' presence will usher in a whole new line of stores that will follow suit.
www.goodlifemarket.net
STORY UPDATE:
Since starting the Kickstarter campaign, we have had many messages about why we need to be concerned with our grocery waste because "we are have recycling"- and inquiries about seeing more imagery of such zero waste stores that exist today for a better picture of how this store model is viable.
We have provided many updated in this Kickstarter as well on our social media ( see our Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/PDXzerowastegrochery/ and our Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/goodlifemarketpdx/ ) and we want to highlight the following two videos. The first one gives an overview of our current recycling issue in America- that recycling is not working the way we think it is and actually much of what we think we may be recycling is ending up in landfill, or in someone's backyard in another country, or worse yet, being burned and releasing toxins into our air. The second video illustrates very well how one such packaging free store in Canada, Unboxed, looks and operates. These two videos should provide more context overall to the problem and the solution- and show how Good Life Market will be a part of the solution in the Portland area!
Risks and challenges
Due to this model of the store being so new to the Portland area, investors and financial institutions are very cautious about financing Good Life Market. If there already was a zero waste store in the PDX area, that would be a game changer- but regardless of all the data, surveys and polls generated with the creation of the business plan for Good Life Market, there is not a brick and mortar store here yet. Interested investors see the trends and community desire for this, but now they need that proof that the community is behind this concept, before they dive into funding.
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