The point about prices in regular supermarkets hits the nail on its head. Moreover, the little profit margin is almost fully allocated to the chains, not the farmers/producers. The chains have so much bargaining power that the farmers make almost no profit. As result, they have such a hard time making the transition to sustainable production as they have so little fat on their bones to invest. In my job (Dutch National Government) we are currently figuring out how to give more bargaining power to farmers along with "true pricing " the products. So amen to those shops like Nada!

I LOVE this place! It was #1 on places to visit when I was in Vancouver. Hoping we can create communities to support more of these around the world.

We definitely need more company's like this, not only throughout the USA, but the world.

Okay the jars donation program is actually really really smart! I hoard so many jars sometimes I don't have enough space. Also love the comment about the margins. The costs we do not see in the back when it comes to grocery stores is not just the monetary costs but the human costs associated to many of low income or even migrant workers that are literally working for close to nothing . Some of the zero waste grocery stores in Toronto have been making adjustments with COVID and i really commend them for the work they are doing

I just love that "nada" means nothing (at least in portuguese and spanish). But yeah, totally in love with this grocery store

My family is low income and we can't even fathom buying food at a place like this. It sounds good but definitely for the rich and well off. Which is fine, if you have the money go for it, as long as they leave us the cheaper stores so we can eat, too.

I am amazed at how food, something so simple and essential, has become so complicated, cosmetically influenced, processed, and packaged in regular supermarkets. If we (as in society) could just step back and simplify things... wouldn’t we all be better off? Thanks for this video, I’m from the same province as you... and I can only hope that we see more food stores, just like Nada, showing up everywhere in our province... sometime soon. Food is such a broken system and it really needs to be fixed!!

I would like to have access to zero waste groceries that aren't necessarily organically produced but come from local producers. I honestly don't trust the "bio" tag when it's applied to products sourced outside of the EU. I think too much relevance is place in that tag and it makes groceries more expensive than they should be.

Seeing how environmentally conscious Canada is, is super inspiring and I wish america had a system like it

I woke up planning to check out the zero waste stores here in Seattle. Perfect timing and now I am just more excited to head out!

In germany, „unpackaged stores“ are popping up everywhere now. In my city, we have a GREAT one!! It opened in 2020 and has soo many amazing things. It has vegan marshmallows, unpackaged vegan cheese und sweets, pasta, legumes and toiletries. Its so amazing. 😍😊

About the price; the explanation that "it's expensive because it's higher quality" doesn't really address the actual problem; how do you make zero waste something people can actually afford? As an example; at the only zero waste store anywhere near me; 100g of pasta screws costs the same as 500g of supermarket pasta. Same for rice. Oats are 3 times as expensive unpacked, and flour 6 times, despite both of them being traditionally packed in paper anyway. Unless the idea is just to make the middle class so low waste it makes up for the rest of the world not being able to afford to join in, we kinda need to stop dismissing the fact that zero waste store focus on way to expensive niche products, and start finding more efficient ways of selling non-handcrafted-artisanal-organic pasta.

Please expand this business.

I agree with you about everything. But... I live in Belgium and bulk food is 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or even 6 times more expensive than the exact same foods, from regular shops. There is no logic... It's like being penalised for wanting to be more ecological and for wanting to sustain the local farmers, etc. Just an example: oats at regular shop - almost 2,40 euros/kg, the same oats in a bulk shop - almost 7,00 euros/kg. And I did this comparison for dozens of items. Is there something I'm missing?

Sorry, will continue shopping at Aldi, because even if a had such a store near me I could never afford those insanely high prices. Such stores are nice but what is really needed is better distributed wealth.

This video was kind of refreshing. It felt like a typical pre-covid infotainment video from you. Really enjoyed it! 👏☺️

levi: i bet you've never seen a grocery store like this me, who's been shopping at nada for two years: bet

Hey great job bringing this more to our attention. Was surprised to find lots of Zero Waste stores around me here in New Zealand that I didn't know were out there!

Thank you for showing all of the wonderful things Nada is doing!! Our local natural food market in Fredericton NB could pick up some of these tips❤️

What a legit zero waste store! I haven't really ventured out to see what's around my area since I live the US but I did recently sign up for a CSA box that I get every other week that I've been loving so far!

I’ve thought about how I would create a low waste grocery store for the last several years. In my head, the weighing system would be different, but I still love seeing this!! We need more across the US.

Thank you for making this video!! I'm applying for my higher studies in Vancouver and I'm happy to find such an amazing store in the same city ❤❤

This video was so informative and made me look into zero waste stores and food box locations near me!!

Omg we need thisssss here in California. And everywhere really

"you don't need super powers to be a hero saving the world" ;)

I recently found out about an online shop called Wally Shop that has amazing prices on zw food. You pay a deposit on the containers its shipped in that you get back when returned. Its perfect for someone like me whos not really concerned with/can't afford organic

Great video, can't wait to have a store like this near where I live! The closest 0 waste store is an hour away but there's some closer ones that have bulk

No way, I used to play soccer with Alison! I've never had the pleasure of visiting Nada, but I wish we had a bigger zero-waste store in Victoria. It's great to see the efforts they've made to ensure people can still shop zero-waste during the pandemic.

In Toronto, we have Bare Market on Danforth Avenue. They are doing a lot of the same things that were highlighted at Nada!!

I LOVE this! I want to see these everywhere, please bring to Cincinnati, OH next please! :)

My favourite is also The Story of Stuff - such a life changing book to read

IM SOOO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEO!!!!

Hey Levi ! Would love to see a video more about how our food system is broken

Wow they’re adapting so well. How great!

Awesome video, Levi. Thank you

I just love performative art installments like Nada. Especially when they have a way for the audienve tp get involved in the fun. Great entertainment! (Not sustainable as a food provider, -but what a wonderful show! Disneyland for hipsters who are too cool to go to Disneyland! Afterwards theres lots to talk about to your friends at cocktail parties! Fun!

Hi! I live in Sweden on the south west coast with a weather that alouds us to have long outdoor seasons and more then one crop a year. We don´t even have any snow most years, just rain and wind. I eat mostly plantbased (a few things just vegetarian) in season and try to find as local food as possible. What I can´t preserve I eat in season and I always look for the best option in whole when it comes to all things I buy. In food that is local, organic, small business, in season, in a good package or without aso. I am a very active "plastic avoider" and I always bring my own bags aso when I shop. I can find alot of what I eat and want packagefree or in a simple paperbag when I shop in my ordinary food stores here. It´s just a mater of choise of options but not hard at all and not many thing to let go without. We have a decent amount of local producers and farmers that sell their stuff either in town on market days or in their farm shops at home and as subscriptions. I live only 2-3 minutes on foot from the large square in my "small" 100.000 people town and it´s there the farmers sell their products. Here in Sweden the food that is local and in season often is cheaper and we are not allowing most of the toxic stuff other parts of the planet can put on their crop so we eat good. This meens that food that is not marked as organic tho local and from a small business in equal good as the one marked and a way better choise then stuff brought from the other side of the planet. We have a tradition of making good from scratch and to can, make jam, bake aso. The fast food industry and costum of eating premade, mixes and that kind of stuff is not as big as in other countries. This also gives us the opertunity to know what is in the food and to eat for a lower cost. ur recycle system is quite good and we have small recycle systems at home, by the bins (even for large apartmenthouses) them we have larger for more fractions in a lot of places in town, free to use for everyone. In every town there are large scrapyards/recycle stations with staff that helps you to put all things in the right recycle bin/container to. These stations are own by the city and we all use them. If one chooses it is easy to be a good planet helper and live on a small budget at the same time, here in Sweden. Where I live it is quite easy to eat well and for a small cost tho things can alway get better : ) in 23 days!!! a packagefree shop, our towns first will open only 2 minutes strole from my home. I am sooooo exited for this and I hope it will be a good one.

I love how confidently Levi enters through the exit door at 7:45 Lol. Love the video

Great stuff, Levi! don't let the analytics get ya down - it'll come :)

Great video, this shop looks so nice !

This is THE COOLEST zero waste shop I have ever seen. Holy crap. When the pandemic clears up I am totally taking a road trip to Vancouver, and this place will be the FIRST on my list. Wow. Mind-blown.

I can't believe the first Nada video was two years ago! This is such a cool store and I think you did a great job of laying out why. I've really started thinking more about my personal impact since watching your channel and I want to continue making changes in my own life. Thanks for making such interesting and informative content!!

This is so awesome! Hopefully this will make it's way to the east coast :)

Ever since I saw your first video on this place, I've been looking for one near me.. No luck 😔 I'm so impressed by all of their efforts to stay sustainable during the pandemic! I would do so much to support a business like this.

I would never have thought I would get excited about grocery shopping. Well, things change. I saw my first Nada in Ontario, and I am thrilled to see more of them everywhere. Love the concept, and I don't think you need to be rich to be shopping zero waste. It's more about what your values are. I am too rich, but I eat food that feels good and keeps me healthy and strong. So perhaps I am richer than others. Go Nada

Thanks for an awesome video! In Norway, we are currently having the annual fundraiser, "TV-Aksjonen". I'm so excited this year, since WWF is one of the organizers, and since all the money goes to the fight against plastic in the oceans. Unlike other years, there is no physical carrying of collecting tins around neighborhoods, but everything takes place online.

There is no place like this near me unfortunately, but I try my best with what I have.

Actually, I do live in Vancouver and now I have to check it out!! 🤩 A message to Allison: you’re right! We’re all heading that way 🥳

Looks like a wonderful store that hopefully will expand and continue to grow or at least inspire other stores to copy their business model. The only real problem with the higher prices, or more accurately, fair pricing of goods; is that our most vulnerable populations (the working poor and the elderly on small fixed incomes) would go even hungrier as they would end up with the same limited budget and the higher prices.

I was all for something like this before, but Covid totally changeed my mind of touching lid/pick a tong/ touch food inside... our groceries have moved to pre packaged bulk buy. I’m glad ppl aren’t pushing bread with their thumb anymore now that they are in the sealed packaging.

Came here after your insta post. Always here to support!! 🥰

All I remember about the Nada video is that Leah went bonkers because of the BREAD.

I will never forget reading about how Lantinos are smuggled undercover at night to pick produce not paid until at the next crop, Men women and children. That is why produce is so cheap. Because no white people will want to work from sun up around 6 am -8pm for so little . I wish there was a place like that here were I live. The closest place near me is way out of my budget... and the mainstream places that used to do bulk is now wrapping EVERYTHING in plastic. Thank you for spreading the positive ways people can make a change and that's its not all or nothing . Ps. There is a facebook group in KS that started called Support Kansas Farms . its an amazing resource thats spreading to other states as well!

Yey...looove Zero waste stores! Makes grocery shopping enjoyable again and not as depressing. Sometimes it's so bad that I'm literally not capable of buying anything in a regular store coz it's either wrapped in all kinds of plastic, priced in a suspicious way or is unsavoury in another way.

This looks real cool! A step in The right direktion!

I’d kill to have one of these stores near me! Awesome video, Levi!

There are two independent shops like this in my local area (North Tyneside, England) - we love them! One called ‘Buy the Kilo’ which I’ve always thought was clever!

I remember that older video you did on this. I really hoped that this concept would've gotten picked up by now

Canada is in the process of banning several single use products such s plastic bags. Nova Scotia had that both bags and straws banned for the past few years. The first half year saw me sending my partner back to the car for my bags, but after a few months of that, we got used to the new habit. It wasn’t hard. I also took an old pair of lace sheers curtains and turned them into thin bags for vegetables and fruits. I shop at bulk barn for grains and beans and spices ( and the occasional junk food snack)😋

Hey Levi! Could you make a video addressing HelloFresh and other food kit services? Addressing how it may be convenient but makes a lot of waste.

Nada in Serbian means “Hope” and it’s also a name here. 😍

In my state there are a few minimal waste shops. Not everything is waste free but a good amount of things are! Hopefully as it picks up more traction we will get some stores that are Zero Waste!

i'd love to make a company like this where i live because there's nothing like that here. but i def don't have the money, time, and capitol to do it.

I love NADA. It was great following their journey from pop up markets to construction to opening. I really hope you also check out and highlight the original Vancouver zero waste shopTHE. SOAP DISPENSARY & KITCHEN STAPLES also in Vancouver. The owner, Linh, is so great!

Wow, this is fantastic! I would go out of my way to shop at Nada if they existed in Columbus, Oh.

I wish they had this in my state, i hope they expand soon 🙏💕

Delivery guy really needs to stop at the stop sign.

That's hilarious. At first I thought you said "wheat chocolate" and I was wondering why you had such small pieces. Also, fun to make the plastic cups into one of those old phone lines. :)

This would be really nice for about 1% of the US population.

Yall need to do a video about B2 pens made from recycled water bottles

Sprouts and Winco, big bulk bin stores in the states/San Diego, had to switch up their operations. Sprouts now sells prebags “bulk food”. They tend to fill them in 1lb bags. Winco, Iv only been there back in March, stopped their bulk bins. Like the isles were all empty when I went last. Also they don’t let you bring your own bags/jars before the covid. I guess it just slows down the til. But they claimed that you can recycle the baggies.

Hi! Loved seeing the behind the scenes of this grocery store! Wish there was a Nada in my area. Something I’ve been wondering about lately is how one can live out a low-waste lifestyle when spending time with people or even living with people who aren’t practicing (or practicing to the same extent) how to live low-waste.

Seems awesome! A chain of stores like this one has popped up around sydney Australia. I do what i can to achieve 0 waste but i just cant afford organic groceries (would LOVE to!), I notice the same behaviour of people entering the store to explore the 0 waste experience but cant afford because organic is so expensive here. Really wish the subsidies of oil, animal products, etc when to stores like this! It would be great if non organic stores like this would open so the average person could reduce their plastic consumption until the government steps up their game about subsidies for organic products!

Wow. This is beautiful

2:06 when she came out with a crash t-shirt on, I immediately thought "yus its possible to be both nerd and trying to go low waste" 😭💕

Thanks for a new video :)

This is so cool!!💚

I like the jar program, thats a great idea. So many zero wasters have too many jars than they can use because its the only convenience product they usually buy

Great video! We have a few zero waste stores in Toronto which is great. Curious, have you been to the zero waste store in Victoria, BC? I’d love you to do a video on these meal kit services that have become popular. I haven’t subscribed to them because I have heard there is a lot of plastic waste. But they seem very popular and certainly get a lot of media play. (HelloFresh, Chef’s Plate etc)

Well do one where you talk about broken food system. I would be interested in that

I hope they expand to have stores all across Canada and in smaller cities/communities as well.

This is fucking amazing. We need this everywhere in the world.

I literally love everything about this video EXCEPT the way Levi pronounces nada

Lol i've seen plenty of stores like this in USSR and then Russia in the early nineties. Back then you had to carry a metal canister called "bidon" to buy milk, shopper bag that was called "avos'ka", and a special metal net to carry eggs. All the packaging was made from paper (which could be then turned in for recycling). And everyone gathered glass bottles to turn them in. Honestly i don't want all that back

This is what my store does, but on a larger scale....my dream! I LOVE IT! If you ever get the chance to visit Toronto (after all this craziness has settled down), you should also check out Unboxed Market. I got to meet the owner @ a Trade show last year and she's a GEM!

May i ask if you know where I can find that type of cashier system they are using? I tried to look everywhere for it. Thank you

Really love this concept and really wish we had access to something like this. We nearly emigrated from the UK to BC but chickened out. You really make me wish we did.

I live in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. No zero waste shops here and because of covid-19 they don’t take reusables anymore :(

The Past Uh gets me everytime lol...

Its so awesome,,, we need to see this in the world,,, the whole world..

I love zero waste stores but the closest one is a half hour drive away and then I start thinking if it is better to go there considering the fuel and emmissions from driving. I want one in my city but couldn't make my own so.... making do with farmers market and less packaging whenever possible.

So what materials do you think those chips are made out of and how are they mined?

it'd be cool if my city had something like that. I live in a suburb north of Toronto so most of the stores like these are in Toronto ...maybe someday soon

Why do they have such a complex system with the chips? At our local zero-waste-shop, there is a scale: You put your jar on and simply write the the weight on it with a marker.

Recently my boyfriend and I were driving in his home city and he pointed out an Amazon Fresh store that had recently opened, which he was mad about. He resents the fact that Amazon is bullying the other stores into going out of business (case in point, the new Amazon Fresh store is located where a Toys R Us used to be). I pointed out to him “well maybe instead of feeling frustrated, you should be proactive and vote with your dollar by supporting the local farmers instead. There are certainly plenty of farmers near us (Southern California)”. It cheered him up a bit.

Bulk shopping can be great if you prepare. I love bulk cranberries.

Amazing video! But i hope to get more detailed information about how different the cost would it be compare to conventional grocery shops. Bcs i come from developing country, i wonder if we can have this kind of store in my country :)

Next time you do a video like this can you suggest how to find shops like this near you? I find joining local zw facebook groups and asking for suggestions helpful, internet searching for bulk stores, searching for #zerowaste[your area] on instagram really helpful to find these shops that are springing up. I feel like there are always people that comment “wish this would expand near me...”, “nothing like this in [country]...” which might be true, but there might also be new businesses that just need you to find them! Edit: you mention this right at the end amazing thanks!

If you don’t have a zero-waste shop: research which regular grocery store has more plastic free vegetables and fruits, just go and see and write it down. Go to specialised shops! A regular green vendor / green grocer usually never uses plastic packaging, a bakery doesn’t use plastic, even a bakery inside a chain grocery does not use plastic. Go to delis or Mediterranean/middle eastern specific shops, they often have a lot of stuff you can scoop yourself or stuff in the counter the cashier will scoop for you and they’re happy to let you bring your own container, they are also almost always privately owned or very tiny chains specific to the city. Email your regular grocery store and ask for less plastic packaging in their fruits section, ask them to expand their bakery and make the bread rack smaller, ask them to choose paper packaged dry goods if they won’t implement a diy weighing system, ask them to stop selling plastic bags. Nada is AWESOME but they can’t overtake the market, regular grocery stores need to meet them in the middle. Email your local politicians and ask them to support legislations that ease the food cycle’s effect on the climate.

a interesting example of how broken food systems are look at the uk baked bean war becoming the store with the lowest price beans meant that they were paying you to buy beans