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The Secret Sauce: Cooking-up your own People's Supermarket

Date: 26.07.2012 17:30 - 19:00

Location: Nesta, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE

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High-tea with the People’s Supermarket to celebrate their second birthday, and to launch our joint publication - a guide to creating your own retail outlet whose business is ethics and whose customers are members of a community - which we are calling 'Secret Sauce'.

It is two years since The People's Supermarket, a convenience store with a difference, opened its doors on Lamb's Conduit Street, London. From a vision to do something new and make a difference, the supermarket now serves an average of 6,000 customers a week, has grown a worldwide community of over 15,000 people, trained over twenty-five people who were previously unemployed, and serves over 700 take-away meals a week.

Produced with support from Nesta, the 'Secret Sauce' booklet shares what the People's Supermarket have learned so far, and offers advice to those who are fed up with mainstream, conventional forms of grocery shopping, or who want to grow a community organisation around a retail outlet from a standing start.

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Secret Sauce

Download or buy the publication, produced in partnership with The People's Supermarket, which offers advice on setting up a community-led ethical retail business.

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