The Chichester Butter Market Blog

It’s probably no surprise to anyone that the Butter Market won’t be open in time for Christmas. Let’s hope it will be open for next Christmas!

However, what will definitely be open for business before next Christmas is a new web site that will let you order local products from local producers and have them delivered to your door.

One of the driving forces behind our original attempt to win the bid to redevelop the Butter Market was to be able to provide a place for local producers to bring their products to market at a fair price. Affordable for customers and profitable for producers. This is what the new web site will do.

The web site is called ‘At Market’. This name reflects the principle of selling produce at prices set by producers rather than the supermarkets. And with no shareholders to appease and using the economies of scale of the internet, we reckon that we can provide local quality products at prices lower than the supermarket and still allow the producers to make a profit. In our eyes, that makes everyone a winner.

The site is in its testing phase at the moment, with some of Chichester’s best known producers involved in making sure the site is everything we want it to be. There is a holding page for At Market itself here, where you can learn a little more about what we’re trying to do.

Here’s a teaser of the new site’s home page.

Please visit the site and register your interest. Then we can keep you up to date with At Market news and let you know as soon as the site goes live for local shopping.