Should I join the Park Slope Food Coop?

sterling2000 wrote: I always thought they should franchise, but I guess that would be deemed as being too business-like...heaven forbid you take a good idea and share it elsewhere!

Actually, there is another food coop related to the Park Slope one - just started this year in East New York.

The East New York Co-op means that some members of the Park Slope Food Co-op that live in East New York got it together to actually start something.

veets wrote: [quote=Livetotravel]The Central Committee of the Peoples Republic of Cooperative Park Slope welcomes all members. We require absolute devotion to all party rules and a commitment to communitarianism. Food is secondary to our mission. We wish to control all movement and thought within the geographical boundaries of our territory. The Cooperative sticks to the principle of ruling Park Slope for the people and relying on the people in its rule, guarantees that the people are the masters of the state, upholds and improves the people's democratic dictatorship and the democratic centralism of the Party and the state, and promotes people's democracy by enhancing inner-Party democracy. We also sell good potatoes and beets.

I just had to quote that to hopefully bring it to the attention of other readers.. If Livetotravel is not a former member of THIS coop well they certainly do appreciate to position of a coop in an already gentrified neighborhood!!

When someone on this forum asks whether they should join the coop NOW all I can say is.. Ya should have been a member in 1972! Those were the bestest years!)

I shopped at Fairway today and had a grand time!!
I alway thought that instead of Muzak or some music as background mood music at the co-op; they played the Internationale or at least tuned into WBAI-FM.

Hey, thanks for the shout-outs. I have never been nor will I ever be a member of the Commun, er, I mean the Park Slope Food Coop for Working Members through Cooperation since 1973.

I have a friend who belongs and who dragged me there about 10 years ago, but I didn't pass the conformity test. I think I may also have been a latecomer to orientation and was refused admission.

But I do think it's kinda cute to see all those neon-orange-vested party apparatchiks accompanying the carts as the party members wheel their food home though.

No, I am not a member, but, I do rent me a Zip Car every two weeks and motor over to Red Hook, eat at the Ballfields and shop at Fairway and stare at the Statue of Liberty. Now, be honest, can you get all of that on Union Street?

Livetotravel wrote: Hey, thanks for the shout-outs. I have never been nor will I ever be a member of the Commun, er, I mean the Park Slope Food Coop for Working Members through Cooperation since 1973.

I have a friend who belongs and who dragged me there about 10 years ago, but I didn't pass the conformity test. I think I may also have been a latecomer to orientation and was refused admission.

But I do think it's kinda cute to see all those neon-orange-vested party apparatchiks accompanying the carts as the party members wheel their food home though.

No, I am not a member, but, I do rent me a Zip Car every two weeks and motor over to Red Hook, eat at the Ballfields and shop at Fairway and stare at the Statue of Liberty. Now, be honest, can you get all of that on Union Street?

some friends and I make it a destination on a weekend morning to sit outside and have breakfast. sometimes the urge will strike to hit Steve's Key Lime. The added bonus this summer has been the Art on the Pier.