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• Sometimes you have to have understanding...

Apart from such obvious products like non-dairy milks, tofu products and vegan cheese Twelve Monkeys provides lots of stuff you can't easily somewhere else, things like vegan condoms, vegan D3, vegan pet food, toothpaste with B12 and so on. They have a small range of fruits and vegetables, stuff in the refrigerator, even few books about veganism and activism, also stickers, pins, t-shirts and whatnot. Moreover, they encourage people to bring containers as certain products are sold loose. There even fresh pastries available (subject to availability). There is a corner with leaflets, all different kind of informations of what is going on, dates of concerts, demonstrations, classes and whatnot, what is really great, I love these kinds of notice-board-thing. Staff doesn't seem very enthusiastic, but that's OK, they are nice people anyway. The most disappointing circumstance is that some products are out of stock for weeks, every now and then for plenty of weeks. Obviously that's due to collective order downsides, but that explanation is just a crumb of comfort. You have to have understanding. As it is often the case many of these special vegan products are quite expensive. It is like it is. As far as their overall range goes - that's pretty good, just not always available, and that's, on the other hand, pretty sad. Nonetheless, I hope Twelve Monkeys can sustain, because it adds value to the local vegan community. Due to close U-Bahn and S-Bahn it's much connected to the local public transportations system than the other vegan supermarket in Ottensen/Altona, but on the other hand it's smaller. I genuinely hope more people will buy here and support them in order to give them the chance to offer better service. Finally, opening hours are great, nothing to complain here. I am looking forward to the day I can give five cows.