A new grocery story has opened in Toronto but there’s no price tags on anything. That’s because everything in the 1,100-square-foot market is pay-what-you-can.
The food for the world’s first pay-what-you-can grocery store comes from food terminals, farms, restaurants, cafés, supermarkets and bakeries. None of it is expired or rotten, but companies are getting rid of it for reasons such as the produce being naturally bruised or misshapen, or there’s too much to store in warehouses.
“There are big companies that have a lot of (food) stuff stored away in big warehouses and not all of it is sold,” said store owner Jagger Gordon, a Toronto chef and founder of the Feed It Forward initiative. “There’s nothing wrong with the products we get; some stores just mandate that the food…
