EcoUnit News
Ray’s Food Place, Organic Valley Offers EcoUnit Credits to Shoppers11/19/09
Progressive Grocer October 25, 2009
C&K Market’s Ray’s Food Place Stores and organic foods supplier Organic Valley have teamed up to create a new shopper rewards program that gives customers EcoUnit credits that can be redeemed to support local stewardship projects like tree planting, river restoration, removal of invasive species and watershed cleanup.
... Read More...Organic Valley partners with grocery chain in stewardship program
11/19/09
Sustainable Food News October 23, 2009
Organic Valley Family of Farms said Thursday it has partnered with Northwest grocery chain Ray's Food Place to launch a program with EcoUnit, a shopper rewards program that awards customers with credits that can be redeemed to support local stewardship projects like tree planting and river restoration.
... Read More...EcoUnit Partners with Organic Valley to Supercharge Sustainable Consumer Behavior
11/19/09
TriplePundit October 30, 2009
How do you effectively shift consumer behavior with minimal cost to you as a business and minimum effort required of consumers? EcoUnit is one company attempting to answer that question.
... Read More...C&K Runs Environmental Promo
10/08/09
Supermarket News October 8, 2009
BROOKINGS, Ore. — C&K Markets here tested its first product promotion tied to its new environmental rewards initiative.
Two of its 48 Ray’s Food Place Stores ran a one-week test earlier this month in which anyone who purchased an organic salad mix received five EcoUnit credits which can be used to support local environmental projects, ranging from tree planting to river conservation.
... Read More...EcoUnit - An Effective Way to Shift Consumer Behavior Greener Without a Stick
06/10/09
TriplePundit June 10, 2009
People, when asked, generally want to do the right thing. But outside their own desire and a vague sense of "you should," how much and how fast do people change their behavior when it comes shopping? For many, not fast enough. How can that change? One promising answer is Ecounit, one of the top 10 startups featured in last week's New Venture Exchange at the Sustainable Brands Conference. Ecounit is building on a simple, well thought out premise: Most stores want to save money on operations. Most want to make their customers happy and make more money. Ecounit's first project seems to be helping them do all of these, well.
... Read More...Ray’s Food Place Rewards Shoppers Who Reuse Bags
04/06/09
Progressive Grocer, March 30, 2009.
Ray's Food Place last week launched an environmental rewards program to promote the use of reusable bags at its stores.
The Brookings, Ore.-based grocer is working with EcoUnit and Catalina Marketing on the initiative. “This innovative program rewards shoppers with one EcoUnit credit for each reusable bag used at participating stores,” explained Robin Kovach, director of sustainability and environmental impact for Ray’s parent, C&K Market, Inc. “Shoppers can collect EcoUnit credits and redeem them for their choice of local environmental causes, including tree planting and river conservation.”
“Attention Ray’s Food Place shoppers!”
04/06/09
Central Oregonian, March 7, 2009. By Jason Chaney.
All five Ray’s grocery stores in Central Oregon — including the Prineville store — are offering their customers a double-duty way to help the environment with each shopping trip. The grocery store chain has joined forces with EcoUnit, a company formed in 2007, dedicated to carrying out actions with corporate sponsors to help the environment. “We identify discreet actions that consumers can take that are eco-friendly” said EcoUnit founder Kent Ragen. “With Ray’s, the discreet action is using reusable bags.” While Ray’s has made the canvas reusable bags available to customers in the past, the program with Eco-Unit takes it a step further.
... Read More...Your reusable bag at Ray’s helps charities, environment
04/06/09
Bend Bulletin, March 24, 2009. By Anna Sowa.
Grocery shoppers who bring their reusable shopping bags to the checkout are already rewarded at many stores with a few cents off their entire bill. But now, one store is phasing in a program in which those bags will mean donations to local environmental programs. Ray’s Food Place stores in Central Oregon are the first grocery stores in the nation to partner with a program called EcoUnit, which rewards the use of reusable shopping bags with donations to an environmental charity.
... Read More...Reusable Bag Program at Rays Food Place Links to Environmental Causes
03/11/09
Supermarket News, March 5, 2009.
Reusable Bag Program at Ray’s Food Place Links to Environmental Causes
BROOKINGS, Ore. — Ray’s Food Place, one of the banners operated by C&K Market here, in partnership with EcoUnit, Los Altos, Calif., and Catalina Marketing, have introduced an environmental rewards program to promote the use of reusable bags at Ray’s Food Place stores.
... Read More...Program Rewards Residents for Ecological Action
03/11/09
Published in the Sisters Nuggest newspaper on March 3, 2009, this article introduces the EcoUnit program to the residents of Sisters, Oregon.
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