List of food cooperatives
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
Ireland
- Dublin Food Co-op,[5] Dublin City
- The Urban Co-op, Limerick
Poland
- Wawelska Kooperatywa Spożywcza, Kraków [6]
- Kooperatywa Dobrze, Warszawa [7]
- Beskidzka Paczka, Bielsko-Biała [8]
- Jurajska Kooperatywa Spożywcza, Częstochowa [9]
- Tomata (kooperatywa spożywcza), Gliwice [10]
- Wiejska Kooperatywa Spożywcza, Beskid Niski
- Kaszubska Kooperatywa Spożywcza, Bytów
- Kooperatywa Nasza, Lesznowola
- Lubelska Kooperatywa Naturalnie, Lublin
- Kooperatywa Lublin, Lublin
- Sądecka Kooperatywa Spożywcza, Nowy Sącz
- Kooperatywa Konstancin, Piaseczno / Konstancin
- Kooperatywa Poznańska, Poznań
- Kooperatywa Jeżyce, Poznań
- Kooperatywa Południowa, Warszawa
- Kooperatywa Grochowska, Warszawa
Sweden
- Coop Sweden (Coop Sverige), a subsidiary of Kooperativa Förbundet[11]
- Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem, women's food cooperative, founded in Sweden 1905.
Switzerland
Turkey
United Kingdom
- Daily Bread Co-operative, Northampton[12] and Cambridge
- Essential Trading Co-op, Bristol[13]
- Infinity Foods Workers Co-operative, Brighton
- The People's Supermarket, London
- Unicorn Grocery,[14] 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,[15] Seattle, Washington
- Fiddleheads Food Cooperative, New London, Connecticut[16]
- Frontier Natural Products Co-op, Norway, Iowa
- George Street Co-op, New Brunswick, New Jersey[17]
- 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[18]
- Whole Foods Co-op, Duluth, Minnesota
- Willy Street Cooperative, Madison, Wisconsin
- Ypsilanti Food Co-op, Ypsilanti, Michigan
Student-run
- ASUW Student Food Co-op,[19] 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.[20]
- Harvest Markets, Jamaica Plain and Cambridge, Massachusetts. In operation from 1974 through 2018[21]
See also
- History of the cooperative movement
- List of food companies
- List of cooperatives
- National Co+op Grocers
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Alfalfa House". Broadsheet. July 28, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
- ^ "Our Story". Karma Co-op. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
- ^ https://foodhub-muenchen.de/
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Wawelska Kooperatywa Spożywcza". Retrieved February 17, 2026.
- ^ "Kooperatywa Dobrze". Retrieved February 17, 2026.
- ^ "Beskidzka Paczka". Retrieved February 17, 2026.
- ^ "Jurajska Kooperatywa Spożywcza". Retrieved February 17, 2026.
- ^ "Tomata". Retrieved February 17, 2026.
- ^ Voinea, Anca (March 23, 2017). "Coop Sweden boosts profit following launch of new store concept". Co-operative News. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ https://essential-trading.coop/
- ^ King, D.; Lawley, S. (2016). Organizational Behaviour. Oxford University Press. p. 435. ISBN 978-0-19-872402-5. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
- ^ "The Central Co-op Story". www.centralcoop.coop.
- ^ "Fiddleheads hits 5,000 member threshold". The Day. 24 November 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Ortega, Tania (December 31, 2017). "Wheatsville Co-op repurposes food for those in need". KTBC. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
- ^ "ASUW Student Food Co-op". asuwsfc. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
- ^ Supermarket Era Closes Cooperative" by William H. Jones, The Washington Post and Times-Herald (1959-1973); November 13, 1972, p.C1
- ^ Cain, Jacqueline (2018-10-03). "Harvest Co-Op Will, in Fact, Close This Month". Boston Magazine. Retrieved 2024-04-16.