Some 40 years ago, in small city America, things where a little different. Every neighborhood had a store and some had an additional drug store. These stores where within walking distance. They used to run between the suppliers and the local people. That’s not to say the people didn’t have a say in the products sold. We just needed to ask the store owner if they could and would carry the items we sought. The greater the number of neighbors that also enjoyed that item, the more likely it would become a staple item for the neighborhood.

Even now, online stores are finding it hard to compete with well run local stores. You see local stores satisfy our need for instant gratification. Online stores will never be able to address this without putting outlet warehouses across the street from the local stores. Currently the online business model supports “Batch” and “Just In Time” manufacturing processes also relying heavily on shipping. This has been changing with local big box stores adopting online amenities. This way of thinking pulls money out of our local communities and down plays local jobs. You see, our local dollars leave our communities to be replaced with disposable goods without any form of fiscal recycling.

Don’t get me wrong, big box stores aren’t out of the woods even with a web presents. Such stores require manpower and market to exist. Local communities may not be well enough off to feed these monsters. And again, we may see money leaking out of our local grasp.

Products and their availability, as far as being luxuries or durable goods are concerned, don’t suffer from online purchasing and shipping limitations. However, when it comes to consumables, like food, an interruption in supply lines may mean hunger. If this wasn’t bad enough, people being driven by the market instead of driving the market are setting themselves up for fewer products, inflation, and a lack of the resources for life.

So, we’re proposing creating local neighborhood, membership only, store fronts with updated local distributive product production. We realize this means the neighborhood members we enlist need a working knowledge of capitalism to benefit from our proposal.

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We’re working toward building natural self sustaining systems with minimal manual effort. We believe in letting nature do her magic and reaping from her time-proven age-old natural methods.