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The store in Debrecen, which is committed to environmentally conscious shopping, won an award
The first non-packaging store in Debrecen – Hajdú-Bihar county, the Cekker store in Debrecen, received the 2021. Outstanding Example in the Business World.
Nowadays, when environmental awareness is already popping up, it is not yet common. When we talk a lot about the environment, we don’t do so much for it. When pollution is very significant in the world, yet the protection of our environment is most often pushed into the background in the course of profit-making, it is a very good feeling to meet people and business owners where environmental awareness is of paramount importance – read the Prosper and Prosper Public Benefit Foundation’s statement.
As they wrote, in the Cekker store you can buy everything you need in a waste-free household without packaging waste, weighed in your own container and at an affordable price. It also plays a big role in reducing food waste, as consumers can only buy as much as they need and therefore encourage people to waste less.
The owner of the Cekker store, Veronika Kálmán, was rewarded for her business activities and her role in environmentally conscious shopping by the Flourish and Prosper Foundation, Show a good example! campaign. The award was presented by Antónia Novák, President of the Foundation.
– In business, setting an environmentally conscious example is also important because it can motivate a wide range of customers and business partners to do the same in their shopping habits or commercial and business practices. Although sometimes an individual may misjudge how important it is in protecting the Earth, a good commercial, business or individual example can tell him that behavior and individual responsibility are important, Antónia Novák emphasized.
As Veronika Kálmán also mentioned on her Facebook page, “the mission and activities of the Cekker store are parallel to the goal of the Show a Good Example campaign, which is nothing more than to make positive examples widely known in society”.
With his shop, Veronika Kálmán deserves to set a good example! this purpose of the campaign, as well as the fact that positive examples can have an inspiring power to set an example for others. While there were only three similar stores in Hungary at the birth of the Cekker store, over the years we can find almost 80 non-packaging stores nationwide – the announcement concludes.