The Economic Growth Model Of Repair Cafe

Repair café started from Amsterdam, Netherlands where Martine Postman and her family started to think about ways to reduce waste going into landfills. Today is has more than 1,100 sites across 30 nations. The idea of repair café is steered by the people who are aware of the environmental issues just like Annie Leonard, the creator of the film ‘The Story of Stuff’. As mentioned both from the film and this article about repair café, products today are manufactured in a way that make their parts inaccessible and fragile, so that if they break, it’s just easier to buy new one. And in order to fulfill the unnecessary need, outsourcing and relying on shareholder’s money became the habit of firm. The economic growth model we have created over the …show more content…
It creates numerous positive spillover effects along the community by promoting donations of the fixed items and giving hope to the underpreviledged people in the society. To begin, Repair cafe has reconceived market by providing customized repairing service for the individuals. For instance, Ms. Knight, one of the organizer of repair café in New York, fixed a broken clasp of silver cylinder on a woman’s necklace. The cyclinder was carrying the ash of the woman’s grandson who died young and was very meaningful thing for the …show more content…
First is to get paid while repairing the stuffs by redefining the company: create a new way of operation. This may result temporary loss of customers on the first place since the café is altering from free repairing service to getting paid. Also, people with very low income will find it burdensome to get things repaired unless it is free, therefore, do not get any advantage. However, as long as the repairing service is satisfactory, the price is reasonable, and the loss of customer will be temporary and the café can be successful in creating a social value in the long