Comment by IESAI_ski
5 days ago
Appreciate the feedback and the info. I included REI in the directory (labeled as customer co-op not a worker co-op) but not in the search results but now I realize that's lame. I'm just gonna take them off entirely.
5 days ago
Appreciate the feedback and the info. I included REI in the directory (labeled as customer co-op not a worker co-op) but not in the search results but now I realize that's lame. I'm just gonna take them off entirely.
NB, there have been other customer co-ops, most notably in the food/grocery space though few survived the growth of major commercial / joint-stock "natural food" stores, most notably today Whole Foods, though the trend was pretty evident by the late 1980s / 1990s.
There are also worker-owned food co-ops (Rainbow Grocery in SF is one), as well as a few surviving customer-owned co-ops (nearest to the Bay Area I'm aware of is the Davis Food Co-Op), though at one time there were far more.
Occasionally one may stumble across old-school grocery co-ops in unexpected places. Three Rivers in Knoxville, TN, comes to mind.
There's a list of US food co-ops here: <https://www.grocery.coop/all-coops/>.