ABOUT LESS
WHO ARE WE?
Welcome to LESS! We are Inés - biologist by training, environmental educator of profession, who loves cooking, nature and conservation - and David, agricultural engineer, mountain and War Games enthusiast, who additionally loves what Inés cooks XD.
We are passionate advocates of a slow lifestyle and conscious consumption. Our store follows that line and arises from a personal need to unify in a single location the necessary products to be able to live that lifestyle, while promoting the concepts of community, small business and neighborhood.
At LESS, we prioritize supporting small-scale farmer by offering them fair prices and respecting the natural cycles of their crops and productions. Our mission is rooted in equity and accessibility: we believe that everyone should have access to sustainable and high quality products. Therefore, we adjust our profit margins while also looking for formats that allows us to have competitive prices, within reach of everyone. We sell products that we believe in, maintaining transparency and honesty with our customers.
We encourage you to explore our selection of bulk food products, our section of low environmental impact home and cleaning products and/or our self-care alternatives. We invite you to embrace a different consumption approach, where community, ethical commerce and environmental consciousness intersect, valuing both the planet and its inhabitants. Together, we can make a difference.
PHYLOSOPHY
LESS is not just a bulk grocery store. Nor is it just a fight against single-use plastic (which we already know is the devil). It is a space dedicated to raising awareness and promoting responsible consumption to minimize our impact on nature.
Our current lifestyle is based on immediacy, without thinking about the origin or how a product has been made. We waste huge amounts of food; we go to the latest fashion and change mobile every year.
We want to do our bit to make it easier for you to opt for more sustainable alternatives, offering you all the information and affordable prices so you can consume only what you need, being aware of where it comes from or what impact it has and deciding on that basis.
WHAT CAN YOU BUY IN LESS?
National and imported bulk products, often organic, and extra quality and fair price
Fresh seasonal produce from local sources, where the farmer receives up to 75% of the profit.
Household and personal hygiene products with low environmental impact, either packaging-free or using reusable, 100% recyclable or compostable options.
Bulk cleaning products, biodegradable or from natural raw materials.
HOW CAN YOU BUY IN LESS?
The idea is to bring your own containers and fill them with whatever you need. Although we have paper bags at your disposal, we prefer to avoid them, so if you bring your containers you will get a 2% discount on each product you buy with your container. ¡ You have no idea how much waste you can avoid by doing your bulk shopping!
Also, you can place your order through the Web. In these cases, your purchases will be in paper bags (which we invite you to reuse for other purposes). For shipments, we try to reuse as much as possible, using the same boxes from our suppliers and shredded papers of all kinds to cushion the products.