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The founder of The Soap Dispensary shares her strategy and advice. Linh Truong is the innovative founder of The Soap Dispensary, Vancouver’s first dedicated refill shop specializing in premium soaps, household cleaners, personal care products, DIY ingredients and grocery supplies. Considered a...

The next big thing in retail (we hope)? Zero-waste stores equipped with refill stations to minimize single-use plastic containers. We’ve already written about Lauren Singer’s Package Free Shop in Brooklyn. And now we have another buy-in-bulk store to add to our growing list: The Soap Dispensa...

Kitchen Staples enlists Scott & Scott Architects to create a wonderfully warehouse feel for their new Vancouver store, where customers can bring in their own reusable containers for shopping. In 2011, Linh Truong and Stewart Lampe opened The Soap Dispensary on Vancouver’s Main Street. By e...

by Tammy Kwan on May 22nd, 2019 at 2:45 PM The presumption that zero-waste living is difficult and expensive still resonates with many people, but Linh Truong has been a leader in counterarguing that belief. She is the co-owner of the Soap Dispensary & Kitchen Staples on Main Street, which...

  PUBLISHED MARCH 23, 2012 THE CHALLENGE Persuading people to change their behaviour, even in the name of going green, can be tricky for any business, especially a startup with a limited marketing budget. That's what husband-and-wife team Linh Truong and Stewart Lampe discovered last October, ...

'You won't find a shred of plastic in there,' says columnist CBC News · Posted: Nov 25, 2017 10:00 AM PT  Find the full article here