Everything you ever wanted to know about the FOOD COOP

pitu

http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/16/news/companies/grocery_coop_Brooklyn.fortune/index.htm

Lots of econ details about the Park Slope Food Coop and how it works.

Beth Kowitt, CNNmoney/Fortune wrote: Dave Gutknecht, editor of Cooperative Grocer, notes that PSFC has been able to maintain its model partly because of the density of the local population. In addition to 65 full-time employees, its 15,100 members give 2.75 hours of labor every four weeks in jobs that include working in the child-care center, cutting and wrapping cheese (a big money saver), and walking customers to their homes or cars with shopping carts. While some coops have tiered memberships -- i.e., you pay more not to work -- the coop only has one level of membership to keep it egalitarian.

bluecat

We make so much dinero maybe someone will try to buy us!

pitu

Maybe Barneys!
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