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

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

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]

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/ ^{[bare URL]}
^ 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.
^ 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/ ^{[bare URL]}
^ 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.
^ 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.