🛒 Let’s Go Shopping
Volume purchasing power for everyone.
📊 Initiative Launch Status
| Category | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | 🟡 PREPARING | Cooperative buying at scale |
Prerequisites for Launch
1. Leadership
| Role | Status | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Crown (Merchant Mentor) | 🟡 Invited | Mary Beth Laughton — awaiting response |
| Operations Lead | 🔴 Open | Apply → |
| Product Coordinators | 🔴 Open | Need category managers |
2. Cold-Start Funding
| Source | Status | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| A. Cross-Initiative (20% split via 1/3 rule) | ⚪ Pending | Requires other initiatives operational |
| B. Group Buy Revenue | 🔴 Not Started | 20% of volume discount savings |
| C. Seed Contribution | 🟡 In Progress | $5 Santa integration |
3. Resource Allocation
| Resource | Need | Have | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Group buy voting system | ✅ | 🟡 50% | Basic design ready |
| Vendor partnerships | ✅ | 🔴 | Needs outreach |
| Volume discount negotiation | ✅ | 🔴 | Needs scale first |
| Order aggregation | ✅ | ✅ | Ready (from LGG) |
| $5 Santa integration | ✅ | 🟡 40% | Gift drive system |
4. Technical Support Services
| Service | Status |
|---|---|
| Platform infrastructure | ✅ Ready |
| Payment processing | ✅ Ready |
| Product catalog | 🔴 Not started |
| Voting/polling system | 🟡 In development |
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What Is It?
Let’s Go Shopping harnesses the collective buying power of our membership to:
- Birthday gifts for kids in foster care
- Emergency needs (warm coats, school supplies)
- Volume purchases (Nintendo Switch 2, group buys)
- Celebrations (graduation gifts, special occasions)
How It Works
- Members propose products they want to buy
- Voting determines which products reach production tiers
- Volume discounts kick in at scale
- Everyone benefits from cooperative purchasing power
Crown Leadership
Mary Beth Laughton — Merchant Mentor
Former SVP at Sephora and Gap. Led digital transformation serving millions of customers. Understands how to bring quality products to people at scale, ethically.
“Good retail is invisible infrastructure — it just works.”
Integration with Platform
- Uses Platform Credits for voting
- Connects with $5 Santa Evermore for gift-giving
- Supports seasonal campaigns (Valentine’s, Back-to-School, etc.)
Help each other help ourselves.
🏰 Full S.T.E.A.M. Ahead!