people´s supermarket

[RMorgan]

Hi brothers and sisters!

Well, I just had this idea that I would like to share. It´s called people´s supermarket.

Imagine a non-profitable supermarket owned by the people, in which every product is sold by it´s cost price.

Well, it should work like this. Let´s 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. Let´s 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, let´s say it has 1.000 families and each will give U$1.200 on the first month. That´s 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 supermarket´s structure.

-So, we have now U$600.000, that we could use to buy the products directly from the suppliers and to pay the supermaket´s 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 wouldn´t be very happy about it, I guess.

What do you guys and gals think about it?

Cheers,

Raf.

[shadowstalker]

sounds like a co-op shop awesome

[Agape]

People love shopping

[Spirithorse]

Hi RMorgan,

That sounds a good idea - and 'coincidently' I just finished watching a very interesting video which sort of addresses a similar issue.
People are taking the power back into their own hands.
There are very encouraging alternatives being developed.
This is from the UK.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4ZcTwsubzk