Shop Black Enterprise® A Merchant Cooperative Association 

The Soul of the Black/Minority Community

Unlike many large corporations and shopping sites that opportunistically pander to Black merchants to increase their own revenue, SBE is a Black/Minority Merchant Cooperative where all merchants share access to a vast array of business and financial tools and support, not just today, but a long-term commitment.

First and foremost we are a Black owned business Where do most Black/Minority residents live; in our cities and large towns across America. We all know that the Covid pandemic has exposed financial weaknesses in these communities, far more than white communities. Stores have closed, the tax base dropped, we see Uber Eats and DoorDash vehicles passing closed restaurants. We walk down empty streets past boarded up shops. Covid didn’t create weakness in our business communities–it existed long before–Covid only brought it to the nation’s attention in a painful way.

Black and Minority small businesses are the heart of our communities. Shop Black Enterprise® wants to be a part of a permanent solution by putting small business success in the hands of Black and Minority communities with support from our nation’s shoppers. There is so much more. Small Black/Minority businesses have long suffered a disadvantage–a lack of financial resources and critical AI tools to grow business and compete with white business on a level playing field.

For Our Merchant Members

Shop Black Enterprise® (SBE) can help level the playing field. As a Black owned business we face the same problem, but we have a solution–Shop Black Enterprise® is a Merchant Cooperative Association. What is that?

First, SBE is not only a premier media and website shopping site for merchants to compete for customers with other merchants and have a market reach to a global shopping audience of between 30 and 50 million shoppers rivaling any of the largest known shopping networks. Second we are a cooperative association all our merchant members support each and every business so that by pooling our collective expertise and membership resources we can protect and grow all of our businesses remaining completely independent but collectively secure.

SBE takes not one penny of our merchant members sales. As a cooperative association we levy a low monthly fee for each merchant member of the cooperative association. 15% of all the fees go into a merchant trust fund supervised by a rotating committee of five merchant members. Should your small business run into unanticipated financial headwinds or want money to expand or to partner with another business, members can apply for a zero interest loan to the 5 member merchant trust fund board.

To further support Black/Minority small business members at Shop Black Enterprise® we are organizing a benefit concert for our members–The Black Businesses Matter Live Aid Concert™ This will be a global virtual concert headlined by some of your favorite musical artists. The proceeds will go to the SBE Merchant Fund to provide additional financial resources for our merchant members through additional zero interest loans and special events.

So we welcome all of you, merchants and shoppers, from all of us at Shop Black Enterprise® for contributing to our communities and to our nation’s future and hope you will share your wonderful experiences here with your families, friends and business associates..