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.

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

Australia

• Blue Mountains Food Co-operative, Katoomba, NSW
• Alfalfa House, Enmore, Sydney

Belgium

• Bees Coop, Brussels
• Coop Centraal, Antwerp

Canada

• Karma Co-op (Toronto, Ontario): 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
• SuperCoop, Berlin
• köllektiv eG, Cologne

Ireland

• Dublin Food Co-op, Dublin City
• The Urban Co-op, Limerick

Poland

• Wawelska Kooperatywa Spożywcza, Kraków
• Kooperatywa Dobrze, Warszawa
• Beskidzka Paczka, Bielsko-Biała
• Jurajska Kooperatywa Spożywcza, Częstochowa
• Tomata (kooperatywa spożywcza), Gliwice
• 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
• Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem, women's food cooperative, founded in Sweden 1905.

Switzerland

• Coop Switzerland
• Migros

Turkey

• The Agricultural Credit Cooperatives of Turkey

United Kingdom

• Daily Bread Co-operative, Northampton and Cambridge
• Essential Trading Co-op, Bristol
• Infinity Foods Workers Co-operative, Brighton
• The People's Supermarket, London
• Unicorn Grocery, 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, Seattle, Washington
• Fiddleheads Food Cooperative, New London, Connecticut
• Frontier Natural Products Co-op, Norway, Iowa
• George Street Co-op, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• 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
• Whole Foods Co-op, Duluth, Minnesota
• Willy Street Cooperative, Madison, Wisconsin
• Ypsilanti Food Co-op, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Student-run

• ASUW Student Food Co-op, 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.
• Harvest Markets, Jamaica Plain and Cambridge, Massachusetts. In operation from 1974 through 2018

See also

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

References

External links

• Map of Food Coops