About Us

This other day, I woke up with the Spongebob theme song stuck in my head. Infact it's stuck in my head right now as I'm writing this.

Whatever 'this' is. 

I don't know how to begin writing an about us page so my goal was to write the first thing that popped into my head and then just trust myself to find a way to link it to our website. I feel like that's how life is sometimes. One thing leads to another and before you know it you're exactly in the place you want to be, actually no, you're exactly in the place you're meant to be.

I'm not sure if doing this, this as in running an online marketplace is somewhere I want to or am meant to be. But it's what I'm doing now and like a wise old man I once saw in a sauna told me, mind you we were both butt naked, " Just let it happen". 

It's a good way to live life, doesn't seem that way at the moment but a week later you're like aha. 

That's how The Cornerstore came to be actually, a bunch of weird, bad decisions forced us into a corner and it was either this or run away to Iceland and take up fishing.

I don't know how to swim so I had to save that plan for later. 

I like the idea of being a businessman, an entrepreneur if you may, working for myself, no one else to answer, no one else to report to, it's fun, it's uncharted territory for me, but I guess that's how we grow.

If you told me three years ago that I'd be selling bamboo toilet paper on the internet, I'd have thought you were delusional. 

But it's good to be delusional, it's powerful, it opens up possibilities and chances which otherwise you would have never bothered entertaining.

But that's not all we do at The Cornerstore. Nah. 

I've always been fascinated by the idea of not leaving behind a footprint. Moreso in terms of me being a spy and staying incognito with no attachments, no single identity, no crumbs left behind and just living the life of a faceless person. The CIA is not taking in new recruits so that'll have to wait.

But again, the idea of not leaving anything behind, not leaving a trace that you lived in this world, in a physical sense is quite fun to think about. When you go deep into it, it sounds a bit nihilistic but we don’t have to talk about that. It translated to my everyday practices where I didn't want to contribute to the waste that we humans create. Life would be so much better if things could disappear. I wish I could disappear. But that kinda technology is light years away, but the products we sell right here come pretty close. 

Every product we’re selling here is made with the same kind of intention. To leave as less of an impression on this earth as possible. Whether it’s how they’re made, how they’re distributed, how they’re used and how they’re disposed of.

Every product we’re selling here is vetted, thoroughly vetted by my team of 10 scientists I’ve got at my disposal. Don’t ask me how or why, let’s just say they owe me. 

And you don’t have to just take my word on it, I’ve got proof, evidence, and a clear explanation of why the said products are good. None of the scientific jargon, clear easy to understand explanations of why you should choose the products here over anything you’d find at your local supermarkets. 

Shots taken at all these supermarkets. Yeah come at me.