The Ultimate Global Guide to 100% Vegan Grocery Stores
If you’re feeling discouraged at all the big supermarkets selling animal products, take heart. There are only a few at present, but the world does indeed have a few all-vegan supermarkets! Let’s take a look, for inspiration.
And the good news is that Unicorn Grocery has a free Grow a Grocery guide to bring the same to your town!
Read up on food safety for people and pets (and quality pet food). If buying plants or flowers, read up on pet-friendly gardens to know what to avoid.
Unless you have a food waste bin (made into biogas), it’s best to just bin citrus/rhubarb peels and allium scraps (onion/garlic/leeks/shallots/chives) and tea/coffee grounds. As acids could harm compost creatures.
For tinned foods, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on the can to pinch the inner rims together, to avoid wildlife getting trapped at recycling points.
Unicorn Grocery (a Manchester food co-op)
Recently, President Donald Trump was asked who the incoming Prime Minister Andy Burnham was, and said he had heard that he was ‘very liberal and the mayor of some town in England’. In fact, he was mayor of the Greater Manchester area, England’s second biggest city!
And this is where Unicorn Grocery is, a thriving food co-operative that is owned by its staff (who get paid a real living wage). All items are vegan (2500 foods) and fresh produce is from its own farm.
It also offers organic beers and eco-refillable beauty and household items, sold in plastic-free packaging. Salads and olives are sold in reusable tubs, and there’s even a soup cup deposit scheme.
Get discounts with the loyalty card. Prices are very good (due to no shareholders and most produce is local). A few items cost more (like homemade organic flapjack). The ‘Good Stuff’ apple logo indicates favourite companies.
Kindly of Brighton (ambitious plans!)
Kindly (Brighton) is a busy independent vegan supermarket that was founded by an Internet techy wizard, who got bored and decided he wished to do something with his money, to do good.
His aim is to ‘flip the supermarket model on its head’ and put planet before profits. His supermarket even offers vegan sandwiches in compostable packaging (handmade in Brighton).
Locals in Brighton can also order online, or just pop in the store to shop in person. It supports local artisan brands including local beers, to keep money circulating within communities.
The good news is that as a former techy entrepreneur, the founder has plans to take this model nationwide, to rival the big bad supermarket chains! But this time it will be business doing good, not harming animals or the planet.
People want to do good, but they don’t want to do it at the cost of either convenience or choice. We’re trying to bring in a food revolution, where we change the way we consume things. Shiv Misra (founder, Kindly Supermarket)
Who founded Kindly of Brighton?
Shiv Misra (read an interview with him here). Isn’t it refreshing with a successful entrepreneur decides to use his success to do something good, rather than the other way around?
He even has designed the store with natural colours and recycled materials, so people feel relaxed while they shop, instead of stressed out by brighton colours and noisy tannoys.
In late 2025, it opened a second store (on the site of the old community grocery HISBE), and things are progressing nicely. And what’s really nice is that the co-founder of HISBE (and the co-owner of Harriet’s of Hove (a local zero waste shop) both attended the opening, to show support.
When asked why she was supporting the store, the ‘rival next door’ answered that ‘the competition is more huge and naughty supermarkets, certainly not other independently owned, mission-based, eco businesses. Support of one another is absolutely essential, for us smallies’.
Infinity Foods (a Brighton co-operative)
Infinity Foods has been around since the 1970s. Democratically run by its workers, it offers a huge range of organic fresh produce, in-store baked bread, vegan groceries and natural beauty and cleaning products, along with a wholesale division.
Many items are sold in refill containers, so bring along clean dry containers to fill up, saving you money as well as packaging. The shop also avoids selling items made with palm oil.
There is also a Community Card, which gives discounts to regular customers. A portion of profits are donated to local charities, usually ones to protect Sussex wildlife or to help poverty and homelessness in Brighton.
Only assistance dogs permitted (due to food being at nose level!)
Rewe (a vegan supermarket in Germany)
Rewe is a chain of supermarkets, which has just launched its first all plant-based store. Located in Berlin (the world’s most vegan-friendly city). It offers almost 3000 vegan products from organic vegetables to vegan cheeses and meats, and is situated near good public transport.
The supermarket focuses mostly on fresh fruits and veggies, plus there is a salad anad vegan sushi bar, and chilled aisles for everything from smoothies and spreads to seitan. The vegan sandwiches are made fresh each day, and the freezer aisles contain ice-cream of course!
It also sells baking ingredients and natural beauty and health items. It even offers a vegan egg liqueur from Berlin spirits producer Mampe.
BESTIE’s vegan paradise (Los Angeles)
Bestie’s Vegan Paradise is a female-owned store that is popular with many local runners, who help to promote it! It again has oodles of fresh produce and vegan grocery brands, along with a dairy-free soft-serve machine for ice-cream on hot days.
Every brand is from indie companies and nothing is tested on animals (nor do they sell any products from companies owned by parent companies that are not vegan or conduct animal testing).
Each dollar spent goes towards buying a vegan economy free from human and animal oppression, corporate profiteers, and those putting profit over people.
Vegan District Gourmet Market (Malaysia)
Vegan District Gourmet Market was Malayia’s first vegan grocery (it’s currently urgently looking for new premises, so get in touch if you can help).
If it does not find premises in time, it will still operate online, so still get in touch if the campaign does not succeed, as they could open somewhere else in the future!
Set up by someone passionate about animal welfare, it has big ambitions to help local animal sanctuaries.
Here you’ll find plant-based groceries and pantry essentials, vegan snacks and specialty foods, dairy-and-meat alternatives, frozen products and unique brands not found in supermarkets. It also offers same-day delivery within Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
