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I bought part of a grocery store [Community Mission Impact Report #2]

Each month we support an everyday hero building a better future, and our second one is here... Enjoy this story of trying to fix grocery stores and find a better way to shop for food!

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Jacob Simon
Mar 06, 2026
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Hey fam,

Grocery stores have many problems, but after combing the internet and social media for the main things that people complain about, I narrowed it down into three categories:

  1. Monopolies own pretty much every product in your typical grocery store, caring more about profit than people or nutrition.

  2. It’s hard to find what you’re actually looking for, particularly for an affordable price.

  3. There is SO much waste. Food waste, packaging waste, energy waste… you get the idea.

So I set out to find an answer. There must be a place that exists where I can buy food without any of these three problems… right?

Well, I searched all over Brooklyn to answer that question.

Watch the latest episode to find out!

Community Mission #2 Impact Report

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