Louisville Community Grocery

Category: Committees

  • New Projects Brewing

    New Projects Brewing

    At our March 19th owners’ meeting, a small group of Louisville Community Grocery (LCG) owners volunteered to explore ways that LCG could start selling groceries before we build a store. One way is a “buying club,” which has a small space for receiving, storing, and distributing food but
    not an actual storefront. For example, a buying club might accept food orders from its members every Wednesday (in person or online) and distribute the food on Friday. A buying club usually serves only its member-owners, and not the general public. Starting a buying club could be a
    low-cost, low-risk way for LCG to grow into a full-service grocery store. It would help us learn the items to stock in the store, the payment methods that our community prefers, and other things that will make our owners and community members happy to shop at LCG.

    The LCG Buying Club Working Group is putting together a proposal to bring to the LCG Board for approval. We would start the buying club as an experiment, with the intention of improving and expanding it as we go. We will ask for your suggestions and concerns every step of the way. To help us get started, please answer a quick 2-question survey. Thank you!

    Buyers Club Survey


    If you would like to join the LCG Buying Club Working Group, please contact Arte Chambers at LouisvilleCommunityGrocery@gmail.com.

  • LCG Tech Update

    LCG Tech Update

    LCG tech projects are going pretty well. We have been making regular updates to our “Cooler Blog”. This site is built on the WordPress platform, which was chosen because it is open source and user friendly.  The co-op needs volunteers to help with posting articles to our blog. Ideally tech savvy volunteers who are willing to learn the platform and respond to board and committee post requests.

    Currently the co-op would like to clean up its web domains and set them up so that we can create email addresses like Board_President@louisvillecommunitygrocery.com. We own a few other web domains as well. We would like to coral all of them under one domain registrar. We are looking for any owner volunteers who may have these skill sets to assist in planning for this project.

    If you are interested in volunteering and getting hands on in the development of LCG’s tech platform consider joining the LCG Tech Crew. This group operates primarily remotely and is responsible for solving the technology needs for the co-op. Send a message to Arte at louisvillecommunitygrocery@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering for any of these projects or to join the LCG Tech Crew.

    -Thanks

    Arte