Being Green

This past week, two more retailers agreed to carry our cookies on a trial basis- joy! The first is a great neighborhood specialty foods store called Ruggeri's Food Shoppe, which carries items like homemade pasta, meat from local farms, fresh baked bread and imported olive oils and dressings. The other location is Cafe Phipps, which is located at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in downtown Pittsburgh. What's great about Cafe Phipps is that they're focused on being a truly environmentally friendly dining establishment- they use fresh local and organic ingredients when they can and eating utensils and dishware are made out of compostable materials.

Speaking of being green, we are doing our due diligence to try and be as environmentally friendly as possible. Last week, when we delivered our first orders of cookies to various locations, we transported them in reusable bags- the type that you can take with you to the grocery store in efforts to stop stock piling those pesky plastic bags.

Kermit isn't the only one that's green these days.

Seriously, those bags multiply faster than rabbits- one minute you have two or three in the cabinet under your sink and the next day they're so many of them you can't see anything under your sink and closing those cabinet doors are out of the question. The Blob also comes to mind.

The reusable bags are made out of recyclable materials and they're very compact. When we delivered the cookies, we just asked each of the retailers to hang on to the bags once all the cookies were sold. When we deliver the next order, we'll just pick up the empty bags and reuse them again. To make sure they don't get lost, we laminated some of our business cards and turned them into little tags, which we placed on the handle of each bag- the tags add a personal touch and they're practical too.






reBags, the reUsable delivery bags we transport our cookies in. reMember, they're a reAlly good investment!