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Hintonburg’s West End Well grocery store and café will close by the end of the September.
“After months of adjusting operations, seeking advice from food service specialists, and consulting co-op members and customers, we have concluded that the current business model is not financially viable,” said Bill Shields, the co-op’s co-founder, in a release Tuesday. “We will therefore close the co-op’s grocery and café by the end of September.”
Shields and others had hoped that the for-profit co-op, which opened one year ago at 969 Wellington St. W. (where Wellington turns into Somerset Street), would provide a new kind of business model, with employees as members of the co-op and ways to help people of all income levels afford local, healthy food.
Shields said Tuesday that he and his partners “will take time over the winter to explore the possibility of a more viable alternative business model that still realizes the co-op’s vision, mission, and values.”
He said that after the grocery store and café close, “we will make the ground-floor kitchen and retail space available for rent to interested food producers, pop-up ventures, special events teams, or other community initiatives.
“The meeting space on the second floor will continue to be available for co-op meetings and community gatherings. We will also lease part of the second floor to a new Sustainability Capacity Centre that will host several small environmental and social justice NGOs beginning on Oct. 1.”
Co-op members will be able to get a financial report from auditors at an annual general meeting to be held Sept. 24 at St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 760 Somerset St. W.
“We are keenly aware of the tremendous support the co-op has received from community members who invested significant time and money to support this enterprise,” says Shields. “We have sought to honour that investment to the best of our ability and remain committed to the co-op’s original vision.”
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“After months of adjusting operations, seeking advice from food service specialists, and consulting co-op members and customers, we have concluded that the current business model is not financially viable,” said Bill Shields, the co-op’s co-founder, in a release Tuesday. “We will therefore close the co-op’s grocery and café by the end of September.”
Shields and others had hoped that the for-profit co-op, which opened one year ago at 969 Wellington St. W. (where Wellington turns into Somerset Street), would provide a new kind of business model, with employees as members of the co-op and ways to help people of all income levels afford local, healthy food.
Shields said Tuesday that he and his partners “will take time over the winter to explore the possibility of a more viable alternative business model that still realizes the co-op’s vision, mission, and values.”
He said that after the grocery store and café close, “we will make the ground-floor kitchen and retail space available for rent to interested food producers, pop-up ventures, special events teams, or other community initiatives.
“The meeting space on the second floor will continue to be available for co-op meetings and community gatherings. We will also lease part of the second floor to a new Sustainability Capacity Centre that will host several small environmental and social justice NGOs beginning on Oct. 1.”
Co-op members will be able to get a financial report from auditors at an annual general meeting to be held Sept. 24 at St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 760 Somerset St. W.
“We are keenly aware of the tremendous support the co-op has received from community members who invested significant time and money to support this enterprise,” says Shields. “We have sought to honour that investment to the best of our ability and remain committed to the co-op’s original vision.”
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