A speculative cooperative model for supermarkets
Equally owned by Planet and Community,unlocking the supermarket as interfacethrough which to truly feed our surroundings,human and non-human alike.
Tracked by the Community Flower, whose stem grows until the store goes into profit for the month, with the blossom size indicating how much.
Tracked by the Planet Flower, whose stem grows until its profit share offsets the store’s carbon footprint, with the blossom size indicating the surplus available for additional climate repair.
HyperCOOP was devised to
seamlessly plug into the existing
infrastructure of supermarket
chains such as ICA.
Swedish ICA supermarkets are all independently owned, with each owner allowed to pick their own profit margins, while paying a monthly fee to access ICA’s distribution deals of low wholesale prices. HyperCOOP simply exchanges the single owner for a collective, with a stated use of profits.
There’s plenty of questions left to discuss; how can the imperfect solution of carbon offsetting be improved? How can the true carbon footprint of a supermarket be traced? Is linking voting power to buying and labour power actually fair?