Original unpacked

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Original Unverpackt GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 2014
Seat Berlin , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Milena Glimbovski , managing director
Number of employees 16
Branch Grocery retail
Website www.original-unverpackt.de

The original Unpacked GmbH is a German food retailer in Berlin's Kreuzberg district . It was one of the first non-packaging stores in Germany and was received worldwide as part of the zero-waste movement.

The time of foundation

Around 600 groceries, including oatmeal , pasta , muesli , honey , jam , fruit and cereal products, are sold without outer packaging. Products such as yogurt or milk are dispensed in deposit jars. For fresh meat products, a solution is currently being sought to offer them in compliance with food hygiene regulations.

Customers have the weight of their empty containers determined at the entrance and pay the weight of the products at the checkout.

Original Unverpackt was the first shop of its kind to be financed by crowdfunding. A total of 4,000 supporters contributed to a total of over € 108,000. This example was followed by eleven other crowdfunding campaigns for packaging-free shops.

The design comes from the architect Michael Brown from NAU Architects and received attention in the trade press for interior design and architecture.

Development since the foundation

After the initial euphoria, the interest of customers in the business idea seemed to have subsided somewhat. In March 2015, the store held 450 products that were bought by over 100 customers every day. In October 2015 the number increased again to 120 customers a day. The planned franchise system is on hold, but 38 additional stores based on the original Unpacked model have been opened in Germany; seven more are planned. The newly opened stores are spread all over Germany and are located in Bonn , Dresden , Heidelberg , Kiel , Mainz , Munich and Schwäbisch Gmünd . In Karlsruhe, the business concept was adopted with the establishment of the first unpackaged store in May 2016. Several organic chains are currently following the example of Original Unverpackt and offering departments with unpackaged goods.

In October 2019, Original Unverpackt opened a second store in Kreuzberg, Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katrin Bischoff: Original unpacked. Packaging-free supermarket is becoming a tourist attraction. In: berliner-zeitung.de. Berliner Zeitung, October 26, 2014, accessed on January 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Original unpacked: Germany's First Zero-Waste Supermarket . ( inhabitat.com [accessed February 16, 2017]).
  3. ^ Aimee Lee Ball: The Anti-Packaging Movement . In: The New York Times . March 14, 2016, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 16, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Lisa Ksienrzyk: "Original unpacked". The first shop without plastic waste. In: stern.de. September 14, 2014, accessed January 11, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Original unpacked. Visiting the first supermarket without packaging. In: rp-online.de. Retrieved January 11, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Original Unpacked Team: Original Unpacked - the first supermarket without disposable packaging - Startnext - startnext.com. Retrieved February 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Elle decoration uk 2016 03 . In: issuu . ( issuu.com [accessed February 17, 2017]). Elle decoration uk 2016 03 ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / issuu.com
  8. ^ A Berlin supermarket with no packaging - Design Week . In: Design Week . November 11, 2014 ( designweek.co.uk [accessed February 17, 2017]).
  9. ^ Julian Vetten, Wilhelmine Bach: Packaging-free supermarket. Tristesse in the corner shop. In: n-tv.de. February 3, 2015, accessed October 7, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Melanie Reinsch: New store in Berlin-Kreuzberg. This is how successful the “Original unpackaged” supermarket is. In: Berliner Zeitung. March 27, 2015, accessed October 7, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Hannes Weik: “Just get started”. Original unpacked. In: Gwen Magazine. October 1, 2015, accessed October 7, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Annika Flatley: Packaging-free supermarket: Shopping without packaging . In: Utopia , September 1, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2019. 
  13. ↑ Melanie Nees: New unpackaged shop in Karlsruhe: You can buy everything loose here! . In: ka-news.de , Medienhaus Karlsruhe, January 9, 2016. Accessed November 9, 2019. 
  14. ↑ Stefan Strauss: New store: supermarket chain lets customers fill loose goods themselves . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 14, 2016. Accessed December 29, 2019. 
  15. ↑ Original unpacked: We opened a second shop by the way. In the Großbeerenstraße. 27a in Kreuzberg. See you? Pic.twitter.com/dctfcdEjg5. In: @OrigUnverpackt. 2019, accessed May 19, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '52 "  N , 13 ° 25' 48.1"  E