So, as I tweet and “work,” I’m also reading up on the UK’s newly-launched The People’s Supermarket, a supermarket that is expressly modeled after the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn.

The Telegraph further reports:

Once you pay your membership fee (£25) and sign up for a four-hour shift, you will be part-owner of TPS. You will be able to vote on what foods are stocked, and help make decisions on how it’s run. You might also find yourself on TV, thanks to a Channel 4 documentary series that (of course) is following the birth of the store.

So,  the concept is that The People’s Supermarket-branded items are sans overhead built into the pricing – so UKers will pay less for their groceries.   You work your 4-hour shift (and if you miss it, you have to work a double to make up for it), you buy your groceries, you are a part of your community.  I wonder how it will do?  And I wonder how I can get my grubby hands on the documentary?