Not only do they offer many products in bulk, but a giant sign explicitly encourages customers to use their own containers.

I can’t wait to visit MOM’s, as they let you bring your own container! It turns out, though I didn’t really know him, Scott Nash went to my high school. Here are a few more things you can buy packaging-free: And of course, you can buy milk in a returnable glass bottle: Keeping it real, I have to mention that there were a few things sold packaged that I personally would have liked to see in the bulk bins. I was wondering the other day why things aren’t sold so that you bring your own container and refill it. Read about The Everything Beans e-book here. Have yet to visit but definitely want to! The few times a year I came home to visit, I continued to patronize those same conventional grocery stores, assuming (wrongly) that there were no other options.

Well, growing up in Beltsville, MD in the 80’s, we shopped at conventional grocery stores like Giant and Safeway and A&P. Now he owns a local chain of organic markets throughout the Mid-Atlantic United States . Not only did MOM’s eliminate plastic bags, but in 2010, they also banned sales of non-carbonated bottled water. MOM’s Market sounds like a neat place. Show Your Plastic Trash, Films and Videos about Plastic Pollution & Plastic-Free Living, BULK -- New Mobile Site from The Zero Waste Home, Three Stone Hearth - Much More Than Delicious Food in Returnable Mason Jars, Video Tour of My (Nearly) Plastic-Free Kitchen, An (Almost) Plastic-Free Thanksgiving Holiday Meal, https://myplasticfreelife.com/2013/10/in-gredients-possibly-the-coolest-grocery-store-ever/, Spring Gardening with Orta Plastic-Free Self-Watering Seed Pots, Why I Love Plastic-Free Bite Toothpaste Bits, Jules Thin Crust – Setting an Example for Zero Waste Restaurants, Easy Bulk Shopping with the Goods Holding Company System, Guest Post: Running from the Plastic Phantoms One Bold Step at a Time. This post is reminding me of a great store in Austin, TX that you may have already talked about, In.gredients. Right now, I feel like this world is just tiny. 174 reviews of MOM's Organic Market "This store has an incredible selection of quality food. A few weeks ago–the week before the U.S. election, to be exact–I was in Maryland visiting my dad. Yes! Inspiring! I hope MOM’s does really well so the idea will trickle down to my part of the country. What a way to start the week. I fell in love with MOMs this summer when I spent two months in northern VA. Number 8860726. (Whole Foods waited until 2008.) This is so inspiring!! Since it will no longer carry bottled water, the retailer will install water filtration machines in each store for use with reusable containers.