Gave up... Joining the food coop today...

vidro3

are they refrigeration trucks? with produce going to other locations after the Co-op?

daver

vidro3 wrote: are they refrigeration trucks? with produce going to other locations after the Co-op?

Ingrasir wrote: And no, there not all refrigerated trucks that are keeping food cold- they are big, irritating, idling f*rs delivering "green products" while choking the air with fumes and noise.

jane_birkin

my parents belonged to the co-op in the mid-70s. my mom likes to say that i told my first joke when i was just 2 year old toddling around there, holding a bag of elbow macaroni and calling it "heads." but maybe i was referring to my mom's co-workers

katbka

An observation:
The coop rules are not all that bad, by the way. Most people were chatting on cell-phones while standing on the checkout line. Honestly, I was expecting those annoying "no cell phones" signs everywhere.

...Shhhh... do not use your cell phone in presence of organic produce...

))

daver

katbka wrote: An observation:
The coop rules are not all that bad, by the way. Most people were chatting on cell-phones while standing on the checkout line. Honestly, I was expecting those annoying "no cell phones" signs everywhere.

...Shhhh... do not use your cell phone in presence of organic produce...

))

Oh.

My.

Gawd.

Annoying "no cell phone" signs?

How far we have come.

I can die now.

filmlover44

Duffy'sSis wrote: The Coop is several times bigger in size! The amount of stock they contain in everything (produce, bakery, meats, paper goods, vitamins, etc.) far outnumbers what is at the Union Market. How on earth are they supposed to ship in all of that merchandise it if not for the trucks? Several smaller vehicles? Is that a real viable solutuon?

Trucks (and buses) are not supposed to idle.

pitu

filmlover44 wrote: [quote=Duffy'sSis]The Coop is several times bigger in size! The amount of stock they contain in everything (produce, bakery, meats, paper goods, vitamins, etc.) far outnumbers what is at the Union Market. How on earth are they supposed to ship in all of that merchandise it if not for the trucks? Several smaller vehicles? Is that a real viable solutuon?

Trucks (and buses) are not supposed to idle.

Except for the fridge trucks, that have to keep the generator on. I've seen the other trucks on long deliveries turned off there - I walk by the coop with my dog in the morning on my way to the park.

Of course when something is annoying (which truck traffic is) people talk about it in an exaggerated way.

The traffic-jamminess seems to be a bigger problem - lots of volume, lots of i-just-need-a-minute doubleparking. But it's not like the coop is unaware or doesn't care - I see Alexis from the staff out there almost every morning doing a traffic cop thing.

pitu

J0518 wrote: I held out for seven friggin years and am about to give in. My wife went with a friend of ours who's a member. The prices are absolutely ridiculous, and the commitment to local and sustainable foods is like no other. I'm convinced, for the first time, that it's worth putting up with the stuff we can all repeat ad nauseum to both save you some cash AND continue going down the road of doing something actually right for this planet.

Besides, stocking cans of tomatoes or running a cash register will take me back to being nineteen again, without the sexual awkwardness.

this, exactly
still, it's so not for everybody.
me = happy coop member since 1993

and thx superjonbot. that's my new favorite video

superjonbot wrote: join the force.

carnivore

pitu

(this is an endless genre, isn't it?)

sweet tea

bullet bitten.

first shift in two weeks.

membership card in 3-4 weeks.

expect foamy-mouthed ravings to commence in 6-8 weeks.

duffyssis

So what shift did you get?

sweet tea

i'm doing shifts for myself and for my partner, so i have two: one food processing, one office. i figure i'll see how those go and switch if i don't like them.

the schedules were a bit tight, but it didn't seem to be impossible to find a shift, if you could be a bit flexible with either time or what you were willing to do. (i have a very open schedule right now (but no money, hence coop), but i watched people with tighter schedules plan their shifts, too.)

of course, i forgot to pay attention to my own *&#^ schedule, so i already have to switch a shift -- monday, 7/21, 10:30, office, if anybody's interested.