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Sustainable retail · Business competitions2025

EcoMart

A sustainable retail concept for near-expiry and imperfect goods, recognised across national and international business competitions.

My roleConcept development · Team contributor
Alfred and his teammates at the Inovaction 2025 business plan competition

With the team at Inovaction 2025, where we placed first.

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Overview

Near-expiry and imperfect goods can still have value. EcoMart explored a sustainable retail concept around making those products more useful and accessible.

Project statusBusiness concept

Scope

A sustainable retail business concept focused on near-expiry and imperfect goods. The work centred on the proposition, business viability and competition presentation.

Product scope

Main features

01

An overlooked product category

Focus on goods whose appearance or remaining shelf life can reduce their appeal despite potential customer value.

02

Customer & business value

Explore a retail proposition connecting affordability and product value with a sustainability opportunity.

03

Competition-ready proposition

Develop and present the concept through multiple business-plan competitions with the team.

Tools & responsibilities

Technology

This is a business concept, not a documented software implementation. No programming stack or operating retail platform is claimed.

Decisions & trade-offs

Business approach

Test the proposition through presentation

Competition submissions required the team to connect the customer problem, proposed business and sustainability rationale. Awards recognise that concept; no quantified waste reduction or operating sales is implied.

What I worked on

  • Developed and presented the sustainable retail concept with the team.
  • Connected product thinking, business viability and sustainability in competition submissions.

Results & scope

1st place

Cipta Nusantara Fest × Eduhub Incubator

  • First place, Best Team, Best Business Idea and Agriculture & Food gold medal at Cipta Nusantara Fest × Eduhub Incubator (2025).
  • Third place at Warmadewa International Business Plan Competition (2025).
  • First place at Inovaction Business Plan Competition, Universitas Ngudi Waluyo (2025).

A sustainable retail business concept, developed and presented in competitions.

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