Our Values

Majimart believes that the Earth has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed. Where local ingredients that are easily renewed are sourced, they are hand-picked and re-planted. The same thing is true of our shipping.

There are plenty of big box companies tossing perfectly fine packaging material into landfills that use renewable plant material. Instead of consuming living things simply so the branding looks better, does it not make more sense to reuse what all ready exists? In a quote often attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, it seems smarter to “Do what you can, where you are, with what you’ve got.” (The quote is attributed to Squire Bill Widener, but we will not split pedantic hairs if you do not.)*

Consumption was, at one point, a way to refer to having a disease. That disease was dreaded and was known as Tuberculosis. A blind consumerism that does not pay any heed to its environmental impact might manifest in a short-term gain that has a long-term impact. When landfills are overflowing with easily reused material, then consumerism is approaching something closer to Tuberculosis than a free market exchange or trade of one valued item for another.

So, it is possible you will, if you purchase something from Majimart, get something that looks like it came from a “Big Box Place” with “High Brand Recognition” that spends “A gazillion dollars logging trees” in the “Amazon” while displacing indigenous tribes who have lived there for thousands of years and endangering the Pygmy Marmoset all in the name of beautifully branded shipping boxes that will deliver your item and go into a landfill once it arrives and is ripped to shreds. Of course, we might also send it to you in a custom-made beautiful box too. (We are not Philistines, you know.) Either way, know that we do, in small ways, “what we can, with what we have, where we are AND with what we’ve got.”

*See, we even reuse reused quotes!