Fair trade stores in Munich

I am sure that Munich has a fair trade store, although I have not been able to find it. I visited the one in Frankfurt on Bergerstraße and recall advertisments for a website that I cannot find either.

I have seen several grocery stores with some fair trade items, however i was hoping to also find other items such as unique jewelry, apparel, and serving pieces.

Any help is appreciated. I did do a search so I apologize in advance if I missed something.

I think there one near Weißenburgerplatz on Weißburgerstrasse in Haidhausen. I'm not 100% what they have but they did have some fair trade stuff.

They have a store here as well: Einewelthaus

I think you will find this difficult.

Most Germans are not interested in this sort of thing.

What nonsense. It's the British who do their weekly shop in Tesco without giving a second thought to any consideration beyond the price.

In Freising we have a fair trade store, organic food shops, countless privately-owned stores and a twice-weekly market plus farmers market, all of which can be classified as "fair trade" in the sense that both seller and producer receive a fair price for their product. That's one of the things that keeps me in Germany. The thought of all the pikeys running around Tesco looking for the cheapest, nastiest products they can find sends shivers down my spine.

I agree with STB. From my experience a lot of Germans support various groups all over the world in promoting "fair trade" and or environmental issues (e.g.Greenpeace.) I´ve seen a strong connection between various church groups and missions/charities that support impoverished/oppressed people:

http://www.el-puente.de/
http://www.gepa.de/htdocs/index2.php
http://www.caritas.de/

Increasingly the only answer to Eleanor Rigbys question from an earlier thread can be yes. Your time in Germany has been a complete waste of time, as it is quite obvious that you have learnt nothing about this country and it's population. I suspect that you don't know any Germans and also that you don't speak a word of German. Your completely negative attitude to life here must make you a joy to be around.

For christs sake, get your head out of the sand... You never know, you might start enjoying yourself!

Jeez every German I have met is pro fair trade I am assuming you are being sarcastic. If you are in Regensburg there is one right off the main platz, but expect to pay at least about an Euro more for free trade coffee. And also expect to be inundated with *shudder* Putamayo music the whole shopping experience.

i LOVE putumayo
is it that bad, do you reckon?

Of course not my sweet topsy its just that alot of peeps including yanks rely on this being their connection to the so called "third world" which saddens me for their are a lot of good bands not signed to Putamayo that do not get recognised.

that is also very true, perdido
but putumayo is a good start, cos you get to hear a mix of different bands / artists and can take it from there

I have shopped in Globus Grolsheim for over 2 years and have never seen any fair trade products. I shop in Tesco and find them all over the place. The fruit and veg market in Bad Kreuznach is only on for about 3 months then disapears

I only comment on what I find to be true.

Why do you all get upset when I make a comment why are you all so defensive.

I think it's your overgeneralizing that gets people in a tizzy. Rather than saying "Most Germans are not interested in this sort of thing," why not say "I've never seen in it in Bad Kreuznach, so I'm guessing it's not big here".

I have talked to my German staff about fair trade and they said to a man they were only interested in cheepest price.

Thats the way it is around here it may be different were you are.

But I say AGAIN The Germans ( where I am ) are not interested in fair trade products FACT.

See, saying it like that is a lot less likely to get everyone on your back.

Oh no some wont like it. you are not allowed to make any comments negative about Germany.

and boy there are some

At my age mate i say things as i see them and what I know about Germans is that the vast majority will not even know what 'fair trade' is

You aren't the only one online who calls a spade a spade, but don't see a spade and try and tell us it's a bulldozer.

The majority of well-educated Germans know about Fair Trade.

Tengelmann's (at least the one near us) has fair trade roses. That made me really happy to see.

Thank you everyone for your help I stumbled across two rather nice finds and very close to my home. The one is the gruenermarkt at rosenheimer platz and the other is the fair trade style shop I was searching for (I even saw an ad for it coming home from the city on the rosenheimer S bahn exit)...

If anyone is interested it is located at Weißenburger Str. 14 and they have a website (the one that never turns up when I search for it) : www.fairkauf-muenchen.de

They have fantastic chocolates, difficult to find baking products, and even elephant dung stationery! I hope someone else finds this useful!

Have a look here:

http://www.bio-markt.info/bio-markt/inhalt...ID=48&docID=462