Pay What You Want
How It Works
As the name suggests, "Pay What You Want" is a pricing strategy that allows customers to assign the value that they are willing to pay to the products or services they are purchasing. This model gives customers complete freedom to pay the amount that they are willing or able to, ensuring that they can meet the needs of their household while also staying within their budget.
Check out Open Market our new pay what you want Market.
Shop fresh produce at Open Market, a fun, local farmers’ market held every Thursday from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm at the Meadowlark Park Community Association (623 58 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB). It is a community gathering space where people can shop local food products and enjoy live local music!
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Why ‘Pay What You Want?’
As the name suggests, ‘Pay What You Want’ is a pricing strategy that allows customers to assign the value that they are willing to pay to the products or services they are purchasing.
The model gives customers complete freedom to pay the amount that they are willing or able to, ensuring that they can meet the needs of their household while also staying within their budget.
There is an opportunity to responsibly disrupt the charitable food sector and transform the way we support our fellow community members who struggle to afford food by creating a new, human-centred, and sustainable approach to increase food security. By incorporating pay what you want options, those that are willing and able to pay more than their suggested totals create the space necessary for those who need to pay less. We want to support people, companies and organizations by providing the tools they need to increase food security in Calgary by utilizing a pay what you want business model.
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Land Acknowledgement
In the spirit of our journey to promote reconciliation, we would like to honour the truth of our shared history and acknowledge Treaty 7 territory and the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy, that includes the Kainai, Siksika, and Piikani First Nations.
We acknowledge the traditional lands of the Tsuut’ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations. We would also like to recognize the Métis people, and the Inuit people who have made their home here in Mohk’insstsis, also known as Calgary.
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