List of food cooperatives explained

The following is a list of food cooperative grocery stores and buyers groups, current and defunct. Many of the second-wave food cooperatives formed in the 1960s and 1970s started as buying clubs.^[1]

This list is not exhaustive, and is limited to notable food cooperatives.

Australia

• Blue Mountains Food Co-operative, Katoomba, NSW
• Alfalfa House, Enmore, Sydney^[2]

Belgium

• Bees Coop, Brussels
• Coop Centraal, Antwerp

France

• La Louve, Paris
• Superquinquin, Lille
• La Cagette, Montpellier

Germany

• FoodHub, Munich^[3]
• SuperCoop, Berlin

Ireland

• Dublin Food Co-op,^[4] Dublin City
• The Urban Co-op, Limerick

Sweden

• Coop Sweden (Coop Sverige), a subsidiary of Kooperativa Förbundet^[5]
• Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem, women's food cooperative, founded in Sweden 1905.

United Kingdom

• Daily Bread Co-operative, Northampton^[6] and Cambridge
• Essential Trading Co-op, Bristol^[7]
• Infinity Foods, Brighton
• The People's Supermarket, London
• Unicorn Grocery,^[8] Manchester

United States

General

• 4th Street Food Co-op, New York City
• Boise Co-op, Boise, Idaho
• Bushwick Food Co-op, Brooklyn
• Central Brooklyn Food Co-op, Brooklyn
• Frontier Natural Products Co-op, Norway, Iowa
• George Street Co-op, New Brunswick, New Jersey^[9]
• Good Foods Co-op, Lexington, Kentucky
• La Montañita Food Co-op, New Mexico
  • Maryland Food Collective at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland New Pioneer Food Co-op, Iowa City, Iowa
• North Coast Cooperative, Humboldt County, California
• Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Market in Ocean Beach, San Diego
• Outpost Natural Foods, Milwaukee; Bay View, Milwaukee; Mequon, Wisconsin; and Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
• Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn
• PCC Community Markets (formerly branded as Puget Consumers Co-op and PCC Natural Markets), Seattle, Washington
• People's Food Co-op, Portland, Oregon
• Phat Beets Produce, Oakland, California
• Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, San Francisco
• Skagit Valley Food Co-op, Mount Vernon, Washington
• Sugar Beet Food Coop, Oak Park, IL
• Three Rivers Market, Knoxville, Tennessee
• Wedge Community Co-op, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• West Oakland Food Collaborative, Oakland
• Wheatsville Co-op, Austin, Texas^[10]
• Whole Foods Co-op, Duluth, Minnesota
• Willy Street Cooperative, Madison, Wisconsin
• Ypsilanti Food Co-op, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Student-run

• Berkeley Student Food Collective, Berkeley, California
• Oberlin Student Cooperative Association – a housing cooperative and food cooperative in Oberlin, Ohio

Defunct

• Citizens Co-op, Gainesville, Florida
• Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley, Berkeley
• The Cooperative Grocery, Emeryville, California
• District Grocery Stores – a former cooperative of small single-room grocery stores in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia that operated from 1921 to 1972.^[11]
• Harvest Markets, Jamaica Plain and Cambridge, Massachusetts. In operation from 1974 through 2018^[12]

See also

• History of the cooperative movement
• List of food companies
• List of cooperatives
• National Co+op Grocers

External links

• Map of Food Coops

Notes and References

1. Book: Puskar-Pasewicz, Margaret . Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism. 2010. Greenwood. Santa Barbara, Calif.. 978-0-313-37557-6. 127. https://books.google.com/books?id=scpwmjE3TWYC&q=food%20cooperatives%20second%20wave%201970s&pg=PA127. Health food stores and food cooperatives.
2. Web site: Alfalfa House . Broadsheet . July 28, 2016 . February 12, 2018.
3. https://foodhub-muenchen.de/
4. Book: Fisher, R.I.C. . Fodor's Ireland 2012 . Fodor's Travel Publications . Fodor's 2012 . 2012 . 978-0-679-00975-7 . registration . February 12, 2018 . 10.
5. Web site: Voinea . Anca . Coop Sweden boosts profit following launch of new store concept . Co-operative News . March 23, 2017 . February 12, 2018.
6. Book: Chatterji . M. . Bouckaert . L. . Business, Ethics and Peace . Emerald Group Publishing Limited . Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development . 2015 . 978-1-78441-877-9 . February 12, 2018 . 192.
7. https://essential-trading.coop/
8. Book: King . D. . Lawley . S. . Organizational Behaviour . Oxford University Press . 2016 . 978-0-19-872402-5 . February 12, 2018 . 435.
9. Book: Genovese, P. . Food Lovers' Guide to New Jersey: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings . Globe Pequot Press . Food Lovers' Series . 2012 . 978-0-7627-8894-1 . February 12, 2018 . 118.
10. Web site: Ortega, Tania . Wheatsville Co-op repurposes food for those in need . KTBC . December 31, 2017 . February 12, 2018.
11. Supermarket Era Closes Cooperative" by William H. Jones, The Washington Post and Times-Herald (1959-1973); November 13, 1972, p.C1
12. Web site: Cain . Jacqueline . 2018-10-03 . Harvest Co-Op Will, in Fact, Close This Month . 2024-04-16 . Boston Magazine . en-US.