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We are The Bare Alternative, a low-waste lifestyle and refill shop bringing affordable eco-friendly shopping to Sheffield. We sell a variety of whole foods and products to help you reduce waste and live a sustainable and low-impact life.

South Yorkshire's biggest low waste lifestyle and refill shop

What we sell

We sell a wide range of everyday sustainable and plastic-free alternatives aimed to help you live a low waste lifestyle.

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Household Cleaning

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Herbs & Spices

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Grains

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Seeds

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Nuts

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Rice

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Pasta

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Beans

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Oil & Vinegars

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Speciality Foods

Check out some of our Latest products

HOW Refill shopping WORKS

New to refill shopping?

Check out how our self-service system works so you can come prepared for your visit to us.

We offer a wide selection of whole food and cooking ingredient refills for making healthy meals, all available package-free, so make sure to BYOC (Bring Your Own Container).

 

We also sell a range of natural cleaning products (laundry and washing up liquid, shampoo and conditioner, etc), everyday sustainable alternatives (bamboo toothbrushes, steel straws along with other cosmetic and hygiene products) and much more that will help you reduce waste and live a low-impact lifestyle.

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We don’t focus on organic produce or vegan-friendly only products. Our main concern is to make sustainable shopping affordable and accessible for everybody in the local community because, without us, people would not have the opportunity or choice to shop this way.

About The Bare Alternative

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testimonials

This is the future, excellent selection of household and dry food for refills and no plastic! Good value and lots of useful extras like chocolate and good gluten free selection. Please support this wonderful enterprise.

Noreen West

Excellent range of goods, helpful staff. Really makes being more environmental a lot easier.

Laura Welch

A great experience for doing away with packaging, BYO jars or containers and fill up on all your essentials from porridge oats to washing up liquid and lots of enticing presents. Some really well sourced non food items for pets, cleaning etc. Good value. Very helpful staff for this refreshing shopping experience.

Paul Croucher

Great shop and so well stocked. Very lucky to have it. Friendly helpful staff who can guide you through refilling. Just take some containers and go!

Tracy Watterson

Amazing amazing shop. Matthew, Paddy, Victoria & everyone are so friendly and helpful. The shop has a fantastic range of products, everything you could possibly need outside a greengrocers for your weekly shop. 

Emma Green

Blog

Explore our latest blog posts for ideas, tips, and updates to help you live more sustainably. From practical low-waste swaps and product highlights to what’s happening in the shop, discover featured posts that inspire small changes with a big impact.

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Why is Low-Impact so important?

There's so much to living a low-impact or zero-waste lifestyle. We've looked into some of the most important issues that we tackle at The Bare Alternative with more information to help explain why this is a problem and what we can do to find solutions.

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