An activist grocery store, Cabas Solidaire champions access to quality food for all. Organic and/or local, the products are sold at variable prices depending on the customers’ income.
“Everyone today has the right to eat well, to eat with dignity, to eat quality according to their possibilities.With this conviction, Stéphanie Auger has been running the grocery store Niort, le for two years Solidarity shopping bag. An associative structure that has 65 volunteers and two employees who share the same concerns: impact of food on health, biodiversity, climate and life in society.
An economically fragile model
“The vegetables come from the Panabio farm which is near Melle, a few kilometers from here” says Stephanie Auger. Like vegetables, all produce sold in the supermarket is local, preferably organic.
Depending on their income, customers can benefit from a -40% or -60% discount. “These reductions are financed by solidarity customers who pay 100% of the price of the products“, explains the director. A virtuous model that has not yet reached economic equilibrium. The association’s goal is to achieve this equilibrium by the end of the 2023 financial year.
A place to live and share
At the checkout, Marine’s bill went from €59.81 to €35.89. “It relieves me a lot financiallyBut the girl also attends Cabas Solidaire because she is a lgod of life and sharing who also offers entertainment and workshops. “It allows you to make connections with the people who are there. adds.
In New Aquitaine, there are only two grocery stores operating on this model.
