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Owned by the community for the community
Want healthy affordable food? Frustrated that the big supermarkets are taking over Bristol and taking their vast profits to remote shareholders? What if we could keep profits and decision-making within our local community and make healthy, local, fairtrade food available at affordable prices?

That’s what’s being planned! The community-owned supermarket we are setting up will be run as a not-for-profit social enterprise owned by its members – the local community. Members will decide how the shop is run and get a discount on their shopping. This new way of shopping will bring together consumers and the farmers and producers who grow and produce our food.

Fair, sustainable and local
We eat food every day and the simple act of choosing where to buy your weekly shop can affect hundreds of people’s lives and impact on the environment.
This community-owned supermarket will support people at every stage of the supply chain, offering a fair deal for everyone by selling good quality local and fairtrade
produce at realistic prices.

Affordable for everyone
The vision is to offer affordable local and fairtrade food to everyone in our community – whoever you are, whatever you do. The priority is to develop a model that offers lower prices by reinvesting profits back into the shop. Members will contribute, for example £4 and 4 hours a month to cover overheads like rent and bills and minimise staff costs. This way we can sell local and fairtrade food at almost cost price.
As well as offering training, members will have the chance to visit local farms and producers and there will be regular community events in the store to support people to learn to cook delicious affordable meals and learn more about seasonal foods. By offering work placements, including skills training for unemployed people, we will support each other to learn and grow.

Bristol’s People’s Supermarket