What would you request (zero plastic waste)

[snowwhite]

There's a new zero plastic waste shop opening soon near me. They've posted on their fb page asking which three dry products people would most like to have...

What would you say? Give reasons if you like.

[sprite]

dark/milk chocolate buttons, duh.

[sprite]

I use one near me, mainly for cleaning products--but that's liquid.

For dry items, I often buy spices--I find the refills in supermarkets too small. I love buying powdered garlic.
Cereal would be a good one, as well as rice, pasta, and dried beans.
Baking supplies are another good idea, although most of the ones i buy in the grocery store are in paper anyway.

I probably should buy their coffee, as that normally comes in a non-recyclable bag, but haven't remembered to compare prices.

I have to confess that mostly I buy chocolate-covered raisins. There's a bag of these hiding somewhere in my house, can't remember where.

[kneazle]

Yeah coffee beans would be a big one for me - we're getting a similar store soon and they were at the food show and it was the coffee beans that really intersted me

[HalcyonDaze]

Nothing with nuts - the cross contamination risk for allergy sufferers is far too high.
Rules out any of the zero waste stores for us.

[lillielangtry]

There's one round the corner from me and while I do want to support it, it's eye-wateringly expensive. Staples like rice, pasta etc are 3 or 4 times supermarket prices. I understand it's a small business, it can't compete on size but four times for the privilege of lugging my own tupperware?

I have bought soap there, hard shampoo, razor blades... and sweets!

[Liiisa]

Not a dry product, but tofu - since I eat a lot of it, and now buy it in little sealed plastic bags. In the 70s you could buy tofu out of a refrigerated vat, but they put an end to it (maybe because of bacterial contamination? at which point maybe you wouldn't want to do that after all?)

I wouldn't buy bulk coffee because I'm very picky about roast dates and freshness etc. However, we reuse coffee bags a lot - they're great for carrying snacks and sandwiches etc.

Cereal etc comes bulk here at the co-op, but not the brands we like. I also reuse the plastic resealable muesli bags, though.

[tucano]

There are a few of these places in Brighton (no surprise) but none where I am yet.

I would like refills of good quality shampoo etc - I know, liquid - because there's so much plastic for that kind of thing. Used to buy bath foam in a glass jar but boots seem to have stopped selling that brand.

[Liiisa]

I want more things in aluminum cans, because that's very recyclable while glass is a little problematic. We now buy all our beer in cans. At least here we have a single-stream recycling program, which is convenient but then the workers dump everything into the truck and you can hear all the glass breaking, which renders a lot of it unrecoverable. Oops

(No idea how you could have a can of bath foam, though)

[sprite]

I have a couple of options for cleaning products and toiletries, one place refills only the original bottle, the other will refill anything with a volume on it.

[sprite]

This all reminds me that I need to refill my olive oil.