Tooting Transition Shop - hitting the 4 elements of #retailreset in full effect -creativity, experiences, collaboration and learning

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a @repaircafe on every street corner! 

Conceived of as a way to help people reduce waste, the Repair Cafe concept has taken off since its debut two and a half years ago. The Repair Cafe Foundation has raised about $525,000 through a grant from the Dutch government, support from foundations and small donations, all of which pay for staffing, marketing and even a Repair Cafe bus.

#shwopping from M&S & Oxfam. Return a piece of clothing when you buy a piece of clothing. Fast fashion, like fast electronics fast food and fast _______ (insert retail sector here) will ultimately unravel - their business models can’t cope ad infinitum on a planet on the edge of a nervous breakdown - so this long overdue move from a heavy hitter like M&S is very much welcome.

We’ve spoken on here before about the work of pioneers like Traid & Worn Again and look forward to the day when big clothes retailers have a panoply of solutions deployed like upcyclers on the premises, regular workshops on creating new pieces from old, a fixed calendar of swishing events and much more. And all this, by the way, while they continue to eliminate all the pernicious stuff from their supply chains (still waiting).

Anywho, this is a neat retailreset step. We look forward to the coming arms race where big retailers wake up to the need to compete to give us more. Hopefully this will help raise the tired arms of those getting impatient at the start line and fire our rusting starters’ pistols in earnest.

Lessons about lots of things bartered in the wonderful setting of an urban farm somewhere deep in Dalston, London. @TSchoolLondon is happening at @farmlondon, bringing together all the elements of #retailreset (creativity, experiences, collaborating and learning - of course you already knew that). Bigbox captains of industry and your proles, get down there and be amazed!

gardening at the mall? #retailreset rolls on out of necessity

Cleveland, too, has given over some plots of land to the greenhouse effort at the Galleria mall.

The shift to gardening began with the carts that used to sell jewelry or candles, where Ms. Poole, the director of marketing events, had herbs planted in the disused retail carts inside the mall. She learned how quickly aphids proliferate indoors (solution: release 1,500 ladybugs into the mall).

The garden now produces lettuce, strawberries, basil and other crops, which are sold to visitors and used for the mall’s catering business. An unexpected benefit has been an influx of visitors, which has prompted related retailers to open in the mall, like a company that sells rainwater collection barrels.

“This has been sustaining us throughout these hard years, but now we’re looking at the potential of turning things around,” said Ms. Poole while preparing kale and spinach seeds for spring planting.

A truly wonderful, historic project

londonshopfronts:

Happy 3rd Birthday London Shop Fronts!!

Wow I’ve been doing this for three years! The photo count is now over 1000, what a lot of shop fronts. Thanks to everyone that is still hanging on in there with me :)

shops can still sell things, just not like they do now - @ponoko ’ the world’s easiest making system’ steps things up a gear. Connecting you the creator with you the buyer in an open, on demand environment is the future of things. Real things, that is. And real things need physical places. Do you see what we’re getting at? Retail can roll with the radical innovators, or continue along the path of dessicate, decay and die. Take a look at the graphics below or dive into their site @ source link.