RMorgan
2nd October 2011, 19:26
Hi brothers and sisters!
Well, I just had this idea that I would like to share. Itīs called peopleīs supermarket.
Imagine a non-profitable supermarket owned by the people, in which every product is sold by itīs cost price.
Well, it should work like this. Letīs use a small city (<5.000 people) as an example:
-First, every family will make their calculation to see how much it can spend monthly with grocery expenses. Letīs say that the Morgans can spend U$400,00.
-To start up the business, the Morgans will give U$1.200,00.
-If a city has 5.000 people, letīs say it has 1.000 families and each will give U$1.200 on the first month. Thatīs U$1.200.000.
-From this U$1.200,00, we could use half, to rent a big shed, hire some employees and build the supermarketīs structure.
-So, we have now U$600.000, that we could use to buy the products directly from the suppliers and to pay the supermaketīs maintenance and employees for a month, without keeping any part of this money for profit.
-Now, the Morgans can go and use their U$400,00 credits to buy anything they need ( In a regular supermarket, they would spend 10% to 50% more), every month.
-Only the necessary percentage of this monthly contribution would be taken, to pay employees and cover the costs of the structure.
I think something like this could work really well in small communities, but the competition wouldnīt be very happy about it, I guess.
What do you guys and gals think about it?
Cheers,
Raf.
Well, I just had this idea that I would like to share. Itīs called peopleīs supermarket.
Imagine a non-profitable supermarket owned by the people, in which every product is sold by itīs cost price.
Well, it should work like this. Letīs use a small city (<5.000 people) as an example:
-First, every family will make their calculation to see how much it can spend monthly with grocery expenses. Letīs say that the Morgans can spend U$400,00.
-To start up the business, the Morgans will give U$1.200,00.
-If a city has 5.000 people, letīs say it has 1.000 families and each will give U$1.200 on the first month. Thatīs U$1.200.000.
-From this U$1.200,00, we could use half, to rent a big shed, hire some employees and build the supermarketīs structure.
-So, we have now U$600.000, that we could use to buy the products directly from the suppliers and to pay the supermaketīs maintenance and employees for a month, without keeping any part of this money for profit.
-Now, the Morgans can go and use their U$400,00 credits to buy anything they need ( In a regular supermarket, they would spend 10% to 50% more), every month.
-Only the necessary percentage of this monthly contribution would be taken, to pay employees and cover the costs of the structure.
I think something like this could work really well in small communities, but the competition wouldnīt be very happy about it, I guess.
What do you guys and gals think about it?
Cheers,
Raf.