Co-op grocery stores in the city?

[MIss G]

I just moved back to the city...are there any co-op's left? Thanks!

[soupçon]

If you are thinking of the Berkeley Co-op, that's long gone. The North Point Center branch is now a Safeway.

[Greyhoundgrrl]

Other Avenues out in the Sunset:
http://www.otheravenues.coop/

[Robert Lauriston]

That's worker-owned as well (though it started out as a co-op). I guess the word "collective" would put people off.

[Caitlin McGrath]

It is not inappropriate to call it a cooperative business in the case of Rainbow or Other Avenues (or any other worker-owned business); they are worker co-ops, as opposed to consumer co-ops - though it is true that when people talk about food co-ops, they usually mean consumer co-ops, and this is probably true of the OP.

http://www.ncba.coop/ncba/about-co-op...

[Robert Lauriston]

To me, a co-op grocery is a nonprofit community project, owned by the customers. There were a dozen or more of those in SF in the 70s and early 80s, e.g. the Noe Valley Community Store (which also turned into a collective before closing).

A private, for-profit grocery store owned by a workers cooperative is something else entirely.

[insectazoids]

Rainbow is still cooperatively owned.

[Robert Lauriston]

They call it Rainbow Grocery Cooperative, but it's owned by the employees, not the customers.

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Rainbow Grocery
1745 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94103