Comment by ada1981

I was a co-owner of the Park Slope Food Coop, I believe the countries oldest and largest cooperative grocery store.

We have about 18,000 owners, everyone had to work a 4 hour shift every month, and we did something like $50MM in annual revenue competing directly with whole foods.

We would also provide training, startup capital and member labor to people who wanted to start their own coop.

I always felt like a well organized group could take over the PSFC and create a new tech model and then scale from within the existing democratic infrastructure.