List of retailers' cooperatives explained

List of retailers' cooperatives should not be confused with Consumers' cooperative.

The following businesses are or were retailers' cooperatives, which are owned by retail businesses, and provide centralised marketing and buying services.

Grocery stores

• ADM Londis – partially demutualized in 2004
• Affiliated Foods Midwest
• Affiliated Foods Southwest
• Associated Food Stores
• Associated Grocers
• Associated Grocers of Florida
• Associated Grocers of Maine
• Associated Grocers of New England
• Associated Grocers of the South
• Associated Supermarkets
• Associated Wholesale Grocers
• Associated Wholesalers
• Central Grocers Cooperative
• Certified Grocers Midwest
• Co-operative Group (also a consumers' cooperative in its own right)
• Coop Norden
• Conad
• E. Leclerc
• Foodstuffs
• The Fresh Grocer (Wakefern Food Corporation)
• IGA
• Nisa
• Olean Wholesale Grocery
• PriceRite (Wakefern Food Corporation)
• ShopRite (Wakefern Food Corporation)
• Shurfine
• Système U
• Topco
• U.R.M. Stores
• Unified Western Grocers
• Western Family Foods

Pharmacies

• Family Pharmacy^[1]
• Good Neighbor Pharmacy^[2]
• Health Mart^[3]
• IDL Drug Stores (defunct)
• Leader Drug Stores^[4]
• Rexall (no longer a retailer)
• Valu-Rite^[5]

Hardware stores

• Ace Hardware^[6]
• Distribution America (Trustworthy Hardware, Sentry Hardware, Golden Rule Lumber Center, Priced Right Everyday) ^[7]
• Do It Best^[8]
• Handy Hardware^[9]
• Home Hardware Stores (Canada) ^[10]
• Mica DIY^[11]
• Mitre 10 (New Zealand) ^[12]
• PRO Hardware^[13]
• True Value
• United Hardware Distributing Company (Hardware Hank) ^[14]
• Val-Test Distributors

Distributors

• National Automotive Parts Association
• Val-Test Distributors
• Orgill^[15]
• Jensen Distribution Services^[16]

Other

• Best Western – hotel marketing
• The Bike Cooperative – began in 2003 as a subsidiary of the Carpet One parent cooperative (CCA Global Partners); in 2009, it became a bona fide cooperative of independent US bike store owners^{[17] [18]}
• Chez Hotels
• Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and Interflora (US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively)
• Intres b.v.
• KaleidoScoops
• Lighting One^[19]
• Mr. Tire (Universal Cooperatives)
• Les Mousquetaires

See also

• Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates – federation of grocers' cooperatives
• Consumers' cooperative
• List of cooperatives
• SPAR – an international grocers' and distributors' marketing and buying association that organizes along similar lines to a co-operative

Notes and References

1. Web site: Archived copy . 2022-07-11 . 2005-02-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050205152552/http://www.familypharmacy.com/ . dead .
2. Web site: Home . mygnp.com.
3. Web site: Home . healthmart.com.
4. Web site: MyLeader.com . 2007-05-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20010302124931/http://www.myleaderdrug.com/ . 2001-03-02 .
5. Web site: Valu-Rite.com . 2007-05-18 . dead . https://archive.today/20010417010959/http://www.valu-rite.com/docs . 2001-04-17 .
6. Web site: Home . acehardware.com.
7. Web site: Home . daonline.com.
8. Web site: Archived copy . 2007-05-18 . 2007-05-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070524093715/http://doitbest.com/ . dead .
9. Web site: Home . handyhardware.com.
10. Web site: Home . homehardware.ca.
11. Web site: About . micahardware.co.uk.
12. Web site: About . mitre10.co.nz.
13. Web site: Home . prohardware.com.
14. Web site: Home . unitedhardware.com.
15. orgill.com
16. Web site: Home . jensenonline.com.
17. News: Press release: The Biking Solution Announces Formation of New Member-Owned Co-op. CCA Global Partners. February 2, 2009. April 2, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090427093233/http://cca001.pmhclients.com/index.php/PressRelease/TheBikeCooperative/TBC02022009. April 27, 2009. dead.
18. Web site: Home . thebikecooperative.com.
19. Web site: Home . lighting-one.com.