List of food cooperatives

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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

Canada

• Karma Co-op (Toronto, Ontario): ^[3] One of Canada’s oldest food co-ops, it focuses on local, sustainable, and organic foods.
• Kootenay Co-op (Nelson, British Columbia): A member-owned co-op known for natural and organic foods.
• East End Food Co-op (Vancouver, British Columbia): A community-focused store offering local and fairly traded products.
• Ottawa Valley Food Co-op (Ottawa, Ontario region): An online co-op that supports local farmers and producers.
• Co-op Atlantic (Eastern Canada): While some of these stores have changed over time, they originally had a strong co-op tradition, linking consumers and producers.

France

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

Germany

• FoodHub, Munich ^[4]
• SuperCoop, Berlin

Ireland

• Dublin Food Co-op, ^[5] Dublin City
• The Urban Co-op, Limerick

Sweden

• Coop Sweden (Coop Sverige), a subsidiary of Kooperativa Förbundet ^[6]
• Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem, women's food cooperative, founded in Sweden 1905.

Switzerland

• Coop Switzerland

United Kingdom

Unicorn Grocery

• Daily Bread Co-operative, Northampton ^[7] and Cambridge
• Essential Trading Co-op, Bristol ^[8]
• Infinity Foods, Brighton
• The People's Supermarket, London
• Unicorn Grocery, ^[9] Manchester

United States

General

• 4th Street Food Co-op, New York City
• Berkshire Food Co-op, Massachusetts
• Boise Co-op, Boise, Idaho
• Bushwick Food Co-op, Brooklyn
• Central Brooklyn Food Co-op, Brooklyn
• Central Co-op ^[10] , Seattle, Washington
• Frontier Natural Products Co-op, Norway, Iowa
• George Street Co-op, New Brunswick, New Jersey ^[11]
• Good Foods Co-op, Lexington, Kentucky
• La Montañita Food Co-op, New Mexico
• Maryland Food Collective at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
• Mountain Avenue Market, Fort Collins, Colorado
• 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 ^[12]
• Whole Foods Co-op, Duluth, Minnesota
• Willy Street Cooperative, Madison, Wisconsin
• Ypsilanti Food Co-op, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Student-run

• ASUW Student Food Co-op ^[13] , Seattle, Washington
• 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. ^[14]
• Harvest Markets, Jamaica Plain and Cambridge, Massachusetts. In operation from 1974 through 2018 ^[15]

See also

• Food portal
• Lists portal

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

References

1. Puskar-Pasewicz, Margaret, ed. (2010). "Health food stores and food cooperatives". Cultural Encyclopedia of Vegetarianism. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood. p. 127. ISBN   978-0-313-37557-6.
2. "Alfalfa House". Broadsheet. July 28, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
3. "Our Story". Karma Co-op. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
4. https://foodhub-muenchen.de/ ^{[ bare URL ]}
5. Fisher, R.I.C. (2012). Fodor's Ireland 2012 . Fodor's 2012. Fodor's Travel Publications. p.  10. ISBN   978-0-679-00975-7 . Retrieved February 12, 2018.
6. Voinea, Anca (March 23, 2017). "Coop Sweden boosts profit following launch of new store concept". Co-operative News. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
7. Chatterji, M.; Bouckaert, L. (2015). Business, Ethics and Peace. Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. p. 192. ISBN   978-1-78441-877-9 . Retrieved February 12, 2018.
8. https://essential-trading.coop/ ^{[ bare URL ]}
9. King, D.; Lawley, S. (2016). Organizational Behaviour. Oxford University Press. p. 435. ISBN   978-0-19-872402-5 . Retrieved February 12, 2018.
10. "The Central Co-op Story". www.centralcoop.coop.
11. Genovese, P. (2012). Food Lovers' Guide to New Jersey: The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings. Food Lovers' Series. Globe Pequot Press. p. 118. ISBN   978-0-7627-8894-1 . Retrieved February 12, 2018.
12. Ortega, Tania (December 31, 2017). "Wheatsville Co-op repurposes food for those in need". KTBC. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
13. "ASUW Student Food Co-op". asuwsfc. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
14. Supermarket Era Closes Cooperative" by William H. Jones, The Washington Post and Times-Herald (1959-1973); November 13, 1972, p.C1
15. Cain, Jacqueline (2018-10-03). "Harvest Co-Op Will, in Fact, Close This Month". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2024-04-16.

External links

• Map of Food Coops