I get a lot of press releases and usually they end up in the bin. This time, the subject line caught my eye: ‘Veo – introducing the UK’s most sustainable online shopping destination’.
Like many of you, I cycle between using Amazon and actively boycotting it but there’s no denying that the ease of buying stuff on there (and the vast choice) as well as fast and often free delivery, make it hard to avoid. So Veo, who are aiming to be the Amazon of sustainable shopping really caught my eye.
It’s an online marketplace home to over 300+ unique, independent, and high-quality ethical and vegan brands across Fashion, Beauty, Health and Wellness, Home and of course (being on my blog) Food and Drink.
They have hundreds of independent brands, include pioneering fashion houses Komodo and Wills Vegan, cruelty-free beauty brands like Glisten Cosmetics and artisan foodie favourites like Loving Foods, Pentire and Bath Culture House.
Veo only sell products that are sourced sustainably with no greenwashing brands, no fast fashion and zero products that are produced irresponsibly. Veo understands that it is hard to find brands that tick all the sustainable boxes so they do all the hard work and research for customers to bring covetable products to just one carefully curated marketplace.
They were recently voted the #1 most ethical online retailer by Ethical Consumer magazine and are in the top 5% of B Corporations worldwide. It seems as though they really are the UK’s most sustainable online shopping destination!
Joe Darwen, founder of Veo says “Veo is an online shopping community for people and businesses to connect, shop, and change the world. We are looking to empower conscious consumers and independent ethical brands by making sustainable lifestyle shopping a lot easier. We understand it can be a minefield trying to discover brands that live up to your sustainable and quality ideals, so we built Veo, the world’s largest online sustainable one-stop shop to help.”
I’ve already had a browse and the website is easy to use and full of gorgeous stuff. Just one week until payday and I’ll be on there treating myself to a few items. There’s no doubt it’s pricier than Amazon but is that a bad thing? Planet-first ethics and quality aren’t cheap but they always go hand in hand.