Sustainably sourced items retailer, Uglyfood, shall be closing from 9 Jan 2023 onwards

After 7 years of enterprise, Uglyfood, a sustainable grocery retailer, shall be closing down from 9 Jan 2023 onwards, with the potential for extending its deadline.

In a submit on Instagram, Uglyfood talked about how they have been unable to lift the funds required to develop additional and due to this fact should shut down operations. On its Telegram channel, it talked about how “it’s almost a one man show at this point.”

This information was met with netizens expressing their disbelief as many have been patrons of their reasonably priced and waste-friendly items. Some even referred to as for them to arrange crowdfunding to proceed working the shop.

Uglyfood was based in 2016 and initially began out as a faculty venture. Its aim was to eradicate meals waste and revamp the meals ecosystem by making sustainability part of folks’s on a regular basis lives.

They promote fruit and veggies that have been in extra or apparently appeared too ugly for the plenty (sure, that’s a factor). They even have their very own branded merchandise and different sustainably sourced items.

Apart from promoting items, Uglyfood additionally gives instructional content material by means of quirky comics to convey consciousness about meals wastage and sustainable meals. There are additionally sustainability workshops that educate you on sustainable consumption and even present you easy methods to use each a part of a fruit.

Some of the sustainable merchandise offered consists of Jumbo Argentina Cherries 500g (S$12.66), Egypt Strawberry 250g (S$3.80) and Aloha Banana 500g (S$1.70). Uglyfood additionally offered meals bundles corresponding to Fruits Bundle (S$20), Western Bundle (S$20) and Mushroom Bundle (S$10).

Here’s hoping the crowdfunding pulls by means of!

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