Sundial Grocers
100% employee owned.
Celebrating the local farmer, fisherman and food artisans.
Sundial Grocers © 2010
Welcome to Sundial grocers, an employee owned community grocer and farmers market with plans to open in every state and city in the nation. The companies goal is to help build the infrastructure within each local community to grow local organic food year round and to support local farmers, food artisans and fisherman. We are a new (actually an old way) way of bringing food from farm to table at a fair price using local green entrepreneurs.
Our first store is planned for Birmingham, Alabama with a goal to open in the summer of 2013 but due to the economy and setbacks with Birmingham Shrimp we do not expect to began until summer 2013. Our number one goal is to have a store for each state in the nation opened by summer 2016 and a store for each community by 2018.
We need you help in a very simple plan and cannot do it without you.
The design of financing the concept is very unique, unprecedented and simply requires that you use our links to companies going green. The idea for Sundial came about after many years of watching the local neighborhood grocer being taken over by large corporations, large corporate farms and pre packaged food companies.
We developed a plan in which we would model our stores employee ownership after another very successful 100% employee owned grocer. Our main goal is to create the infrastructure that will support local farmers, fisherman and food artisans who will be able to supply products at a retail price much lower than typical. In fact we believe we have found a formula in which large food corporations just may have to play on an even playing field with today's small green entrepreneur.
We hope you explore in detail what we are doing which is basically to set an example
for taking on corporate America, taking back main street and re-
We are redoing the site but wanted to go ahead and get started as we must purchase the property a.s.a.p. and start paying a staff so they can devote full time to the project instead of working full time at another job to pay the bills. After the first five people are hired we will begin taking a vote on each position as it becomes available. (Yes you will have to shoot a video of yourself and present it against everyone else seeking that position. You will also actually have to be qualified for it also.) We will also explain the development plans in detail and take votes on a variety of issues such as what alternative energy systems would be the smartest choice for the property, which rain catcher is the best choice for our organic gardens. We hope you are fascinated by the process which we are certain will take on a life of it’s own from blogs, forums to a wide variety of communications on every facet of building an infrastructure which may have the potential to take main street back from wall street.
Almost everything we do will be in your hands.
We need to raise five million dollars to open our first store and that is going to take approximately 60 million dollars in sales.That may seem large but it is about an hours worth of sales for all of the affiliates we currently represent. With your help we could do this by Christmas 2012 or sooner, especially if you help spread the word. The fact is we could do it in less than 24 hours if enough of you helped get the word out in a super big way. We are betting everything that once we open our first store, and you see what we are actually creating that you will be motivated enough to help us build all 56 locations by summer 2013. Please help us at least build our first store and then decide if we are really worth helping in a big way. We can really do this but only with your help.
If we succeed then we will be able to give the small food entrepreneurs an even playing field against the biggest corporations now running main street, America.
Again, I beg you to at least help us build our first store, see what we are really
building and then take it from there as partners in re-
Please check back for a very cool product we plan to sell in the near future that just might blow you away and help build us that much quicker.