Dec 14, 2023 at 11:38 AM Update: an hour ago
The packaging-free supermarket Pieter Pot was declared bankrupt on Thursday. The company had been in trouble for some time and could no longer pay off its debts.
One of the creditors, the BPFL pension fund, had gone to court to file for bankruptcy. The judge in Rotterdam agreed.
Director and founder Jouri Schoemaker now wants to try to make a new start and is discussing this with the curator. It is still unclear how this restart should take shape. The consequences for the staff are also unknown. Pieter Pot employs ten people.
The online supermarket was founded in 2019. The company differentiated itself by selling groceries in glass jars instead of plastic packaging. These jars had a deposit, so the supermarket could use them again and again. The company had about twenty thousand active customers.
At the beginning of this year it became clear that Pieter Pot was in trouble. The company was then saved from collapse by a new owner: the Delicatessen Factory. Costs were also cut. The knife went into the workforce, among other things.
That could not prevent the supermarket from having to ask for a lifebuoy again this fall. Pieter Pot started a crowdfunding campaign among customers, with which the company hoped to raise 3 million euros. But the counter remained stuck at 2 million euros.
Management was confident that the company could raise the remaining money if it were given more time from creditors. But BPFL did not want to wait for that and filed for bankruptcy.
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2023-12-14 16:15:51
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