Unbeknownst to me, there is an increasing amount of people in the U.S. living in food deserts, which means they don’t have access to good food within a walking or biking distance. Stockbox Grocers may have come up with a solution to this urban food problem: the shipping container.
Stockbox Grocer’s Miniature Food Marts
More specifically, Stockbox is adapting a plain old shipping container into miniature food markets, offering fresh produce and staples in a 160-square-foot “store”. Up to five customers can shop at once, with one person needed to staff the container.
“Our goal is to bring food back to communities, and focus on communities that don’t currently have good access to food and are heavily dependent on public transportation,” founder and owner Carrie Ferrence recently told the Good Magazine.
The first store will be rolled out in Seattle as a six-to-eight-week experiment, but Stockbox Grocers hope to have four permanent shipping container stores up and running.
* Feature image taken from here.
I like food too much.