Starting a food co-op: Year 1

Re:Starting a food co-op: Year 1 by the-printer on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:47AM (#33152062)

This may be an ignorant question. I’m sure I can search for it myself. But the commenters here sound well informed and experienced. Here it goes.

I understand the process of establishing the food co-op, but how did they get the food??

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Re:Starting a food co-op: Year 1 by qrush on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:50AM (#33152083)

Most co-ops pair with local distributors and national ones (the most prominent being National Co-op Grocers - https://ncg.coop) to actually get the food, but tons of steps to do before we are ready for this!

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Re:Starting a food co-op: Year 1 by the-printer on Monday October 10, 2022 @10:59AM (#33152191)

Wow. So this is a process. I can understand that when the goal is likely sustainability, scale and longevity. Thank you for sharing this with us.

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Re:Starting a food co-op: Year 1 by kjbreil on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:22PM (#33153299)

Just to clarify NCG is not a distributor but an overarching organization which helps Grocery Co-ops nationwide to run their business.

A generally used distributer would be UNFI along with using local distributers.

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