What knocks when you push the door of theYUTE grocery store, is that it smells wonderfully good. A mixture of smells of coffee, spices, broken wheat, soap.
Yute is a journey. But a trip with a very low carbon footprint, since 70% of the products sold here come from Deux-Sèvres and neighboring departments, and that’s good.
This is the name of the store that comes from afar. From Guyana exactly, where Lolita and Guillaume, the managers, had put their suitcases for a few months about ten years ago.
“Yute” in Native American means “to eat something”.
And you can find everything you need to eat at Lolita and Guillaume, but not only.
More than 450 product references, savory and sweet groceries, cheeses, creameries, dried fruits, honey, beers, fruit juices but also everything to take care of your body and your interior, cosmetics, soaps, shampoos, detergents, decorative items. the local producers are carefully chosen by the couple from Gâtinais, count on Guillaume for the best savory and on Lolita for the products that are not eaten…
AND everything at YUTE is therefore local, organic and in bulk.
A mode of consumption that has been that of the whole family since the birth of little Horace 6 years ago. Indeed, this project to open a grocery store in short and bulk circuits, Lolita and Guillaume had matured it for a long time, but the arrival of their first child acted as the ultimate trigger to get started. Offering the possibility to Deux-Sévriens to consume local, healthy and as natural as possible has become a priority for these young parents, convinced that the ecological transition is everyone’s business.
And that’s how for a little over 2 years, at YUTE, all products have been sold in bulk. You do your shopping without disposable packaging, using containers that you borrow on site or thanks to your own containers, clean in both senses of the term, that is to say washed AND which belong to you: paper, tupperware, glass jars etc.
The YUTE grocery store, located 15, place du Donjon in Parthenay, is open every day except Sunday, you can follow all its news on Facebook.