Virtual Market - Our volunteer of the week !
Behind the scenes, there is a team of staff and volunteers working on improvements every day. Some working on the Virtual Market, and some working without partners, like the Dieppe Market Pick-up point. Staff and volunteers, love our local products and are proud to embark on this adventure.
Today, we’d like to feature a star volunteer Francine Hébert, self-employed in the film and television industry, specializing in documentaries from Cocagne that we want to highlight.
Francine has been volunteering since the start, helping us to make sure products are loaded in cars quickly and efficiently. She takes the orders prepared in advance by producers and places them in the trunks of vehicles ensuring a safe, efficient and 100% contactless transfer.
She loves the role, she says: “It takes 5 minutes to place an order and exactly 53 seconds to collect it, we timed it!”
Francine Hébert has always been an enthusiastic consumer of the Dieppe Market.
She decides to help the Virtual Market team during the second edition of the Virtual Market Drive-Thru. “I have been a Virtual Market customer since its launch, but the second week, like other customers, I waited 2 hours to collect my order, that’s when I chose to help. ” After lots of improvements, there is no more wait and we’re down to nearly no wait. All thanks to the staff and volunteers like Francine.
The important thing for this mother of three, producer of the short film called “Cafeteria” about the use of local products in schools, who has been practicing the “100 mile diet” for years “is to support our neighbors and have healthy food” and knowing their provenience.
“The local economy is very important, not to mention the reduction of the environmental nuisance that it involves. When I buy local products I know that most of what I will spend will mainly benefit producers and not middlemen. ”
“The Virtual Market is an easy, fast and efficient service which has undergone a lot of improvement over the weeks”. But for Francine Hébert it is above all a reassuring thing.
“The conflict with the United States closing its borders [to none essential travel] worries me a lot. It is alarming to discover that many of the products sold in New Brunswick come from the other side of the border. The existence and development of a Virtual Market which gives access to local products, is comforting”.
Thanks for all you help and hard work Francine !
