Toulouse. A new local bulk grocery store at Les Demoiselles
Proud to offer its residents a wide range of local shops: cheese maker, greengrocer, bakery, audio prosthetist … The Pont des Demoiselles district is now enriched with a bulk grocery store. “No more and no less… Just what it takes!” says Amandine Duranton, the young manager of the new neighborhood grocery store which has just opened avenue Saint-Exupéry, to a customer. Here you only buy what you consume. No more unnecessary packaging, cardboard boxes or unnecessary plastics. Everyone brings their own container. Everyone brings their own container. They can also be found on site if necessary. Thus, we limit waste and food waste. “I am not inventing anything, adds this astute manager, I am coming back before the era of plastic”. Many recipients are welcomed and brought back with a future purchase: bottles, dishwashing liquid, washing powder, ready-made meals… In this new – look grocery store you can find food and non-food items. The principle of this independent brand is to bring to the neighborhood an alternative offer in local shops with everyday products, in bulk, complementary to those found elsewhere: pasta, seeds, cakes, cereals. , jam, gingerbread, coffee beans or ground in front of you, beer, soy proteins, artisanal soap … and even recycled toilet paper … All these products come from a short circuit and I am very attached to their local producers. All of them have a history and a regional identity like Stéphanie’s lentils in the Lauraguais. “I want to make the bulk accessible” launches as a credo Amandine Duranton in her new store which today fits perfectly into the new dynamic shopkeeper on avenue Saint-Exupéry.