Interesting you mention Ace. It is truly one of my favorite places to visit in new cities. No two Ace stores are the same. One in my area focuses on homesteading, and is known as the place to get your baby chicks to start your chicken raising experiment. They also carry other items that are in this line vs just your typical selection of tools and what not. Then another Ace in Flagstaff saved my butt while on a video shoot as they had some items I had never seen in a local Ace, but were the perfect fit for the off the wall rigging I needed.
Ace is the place!
There's one in Berkeley California with a fully stocked model train department filling 1/4 of the floorspace.
Re:Starting a food co-op: Year 1
by nullrecursion on Monday October 10, 2022 @04:33PM
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Yeah the one in downtown Berkeley is fantastic!
One big key to Ace is they don’t seem to penalize the store for buying outside of the “catalog” as it were. Most franchises forbid it.
I’ve even seen a few stores change from Ace to another and back.
However, Organic Valley definitely is a co-op, and while they started in 1988 they didn’t seem to get serious traction until around 2000, and now they’re everywhere on the west coast, which is not bad for a Midwest company.