Common Questions about us.
This is the official digital commerce and network for forage stores. We designed it so that we could cut out all of the middlemen between you and the food market.
Forage stores is an aggregate of e-commerce and social commerce. We are committed to continuous innovation. This means what you see today is just the start.
Presently, we have just one offer available; Luchi’s Bundle. In the coming months, we will be adding stellar features, offers, and experiences that will help you make sense of the food market.
Oh, dear! We regret your expectations were not meet immediately.
Luchi’s Bundle is our flagship offer.
It is the first food bundle from forage stores with various categories. More bundles, Food stocks and Offers will be listed in the coming months.
Luchi’s Bundle is our flagship food bundle.
It’s a seasonal food bundle with a monthly/thrift and Instant/one-off payment plan targeting the years’ end holiday (Christmas).
A user can purchase up to a maximum of ten (10) sets per shopping year.
With this you can save up to 21% annually on food inflation. See more here
This is the extent Foragestores can absorb the inflation on a given food bundle over a period of time and usually a one year period.
The TIG on the Christmas bundles for the next business year is usually declared by the management at the end of the current year.
Between 2017 and Late 2020, the concept of TIG was non-existent in Foragestores and was only introduced in December 2020 as a technical measure to control the degree to which the yearly food inflation will be absorbed by the management hence insuring sustainability and uninterrupted transfer of value to families in our community.
Top-up is a Price-Upgrade option made available to users who purchase the Christmas Bundle. This feature ensures that all items listed in the Christmas bundle is delivered to the user irrespective of the years inflation.
Every September, a final invoice with the updated cost of the bundle/s purchased will be issued to the user.
The invoice will declare the final balance payable by the user after the Forage stores TIG has applied. The balance is to be paid within 48hrs after the invoice has been issued.
“Users who cannot afford to Top-up at the time will receive their bundles but with item deductions to meet the total cost paid.”
The Monthly Drop (Thrift payment) for the six (6) or eleven (11) Month purchase plan is expected to be made on or before the last day of the month.
An inconvenience fee is the penalty the user pays for any monthly Drop missed.
“If for whatever reason the user is unable to make all drops at the end of the period, the total drop made will be rounded up into food items worth the amount paid.”
To get detail information about it, please see offers
Oh yeah! Asaba and Onitsha are our pilot cities; however, other cities are in view.
If you are signed up from other cities beyond our pilot locations then you get to be the first in your city to know of our launch. This means you get the first adoption and mover advantages in forage stores within your location.
It’s simple!
First, you Sign up.
Then go to Our Shop and choose Item/s or bundle/s to purchase.
And Pay with any of the available payment options (debit card, wallet, bank transfer).
Get your food delivered to you within the window stipulated for each items/bundles.
That’s all.
You are smart! We know you love our offer/s enough to buy into it.
We also believe you would love to recommend our offer/s to friends or family. In doing, so you will earn commissions up to 3% which usually depend on the bundle or stock category.
For instance, every time you refer someone who buys Luchi’s bundle you earn up to1.5% (for Drop payment option) and 3% (for instant payment option).
The more people you refer the more commission you stand to earn.
We will never share your information with any third party. Who is a third party? Well, the first party is us, and the second party is you. So a third party is anyone other than us and you and we will never share your information with anyone. See here
Presently, we accept all major credit and debit cards; VISA, MasterCard, verve and bank transfers/deposits which works using Paystack
We have a strong partnership with Forge Africa Foundation which runs community outreach, feeding the hungry and enforcing sustainable systems for human capital development especially in the food value chain.
We have proposed a sizable portion of our profit ahead of time to further this course.
Let’s see… so we don’t refund cash to users who purchase any bundle with the drop (thrift) payment option and for any valid reason couldn’t finish up payment within the drop window. We rather round up the total sum received into food items at their market price value in our shop.
Cash refund is only possible upon request when users do not receive items in good condition; this however rarely happens.
