One of the great innovations of the Romans was the Forum. The forum was a public space where transactions occurred and it virtually was always associated with a market. The market was where the luxuries and goods of life were purchased.
Our medieval concept of market was the same. And then we had the farmer's markets and town markets of France and cities/towns the world over. It is natural to assemble trade.
Strangely, we have given away the lion's share of wealth associated with that to the likes of Amazon. At first that makes huge sense in a globalized rapidly paced world. But the price was the death of place. High Streets full of far away chains with delivery trucks and "systems" are little better than Amazon.
It is time for something new and integrative with the past, with technology and with local. We are thinking about that. Help us. We don't want to own the franchise. We want to enable. We want to enable the High Street Green--not create a venue for shareholder wealth. Wealth for the market should be local. It just doesn't make sense otherwise.
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