Stockbox Grocers

Stockbox Grocers won 2nd place overall and was awarded Best Idea for Retail/Service Business at the 2011 UW Business Plan Competition (out of more than 100 start-ups from the Northwest).  In addition, we recently earned the opportunity to receive intensive coaching through the Herbert B. Jones Milestone Achievement Awards, which pairs Stockbox with business coaches to support successful completion of important business milestones by December 2011.

Since officially launching in June 2011, Stockbox Grocers has received the following press:

• The New York Times “Start-up tries to eliminate food deserts“.  November 1, 2011
• The New York Times “Sheep lawn mowers and other go-getters“.  November 2, 2011
• Seattle Times “Stockbox brings good food to where people live“.  November 6, 2011
• The White House Blog linked Stockbox as an example of crowdfunding.  November 2011
• Seattle Magazine “Seattle’s unhealthiest neighborhoods dubbed food deserts“. Dec 2011
• Fast Company “Seattle start-up is a food desert oasis” September 2011
• Good Magazine “Are shipping containers the solution to food deserts?” September 2011
• Grist “In it’s former life, this corner grocery was a shipping container” September 2011
• KOMO News “Food desert dwellers stock up on healthy food” September 2011

In addition to….

• The Shreveport Times “About one-third of Shreveporters live in a food desert”.    August 16, 2011
• The West Seattle Blog.  August 10, 2011
• Seattlest “Could Pop-up Grocers be the Solution to Food Deserts?”. August 2011
• The Hunger Forum “Project Spotlight: Stockbox Grocers”.  August 2011
• Revamp Tradition “Mother knew, Grandmother knew, how about you?”. August 2011
• Campus Kitchens “Stockbox Grocers Harnesses Social Entrepreneurship Spirit”.  August 2011
• Street Sense “Mobilizing efforts to unburden food access and choice”.  August 8, 2011
• Treehugger “Stockbox drops pop-up shipping container groceries into food deserts” September 2011
• Epicurious “Pop-up grocery oasis for food deserts” September 2011
• West Seattle Herald “Stockbox Grocers is a pocket-sized store meeting a huge need” September 2011
• West Seattle Blog “Stockbox Grocers to debut first mini-mini-market” September 2011
• Inhabitat “Stockbox Grocers to convert shipping containers into local grocery stores” September 2011
• Q13 Fox News “Seattle’s first prefab grocer opens” September 2011
• Joe Perez’s blog ‘Awake, Alive, and Aware’ “Stockbox, integrative consciousness in a shipping container”
• Seattle Weekly “Teeny tiny grocery store now open in Delridge parking lot” September 2011