The following is a list of food cooperative grocery stores and buyers groups, current and defunct.Many of the second-wave food cooperatives formed in the 1960s and 1970s started as buying clubs.[1]
This list is not exhaustive, and is limited to notable food cooperatives.
Karma Co-op (Toronto, Ontario):[3] One of Canada's oldest food co-ops, it focuses on local, sustainable, and organic foods.
Kootenay Co-op (Nelson, British Columbia): A member-owned co-op known for natural and organic foods.
East End Food Co-op (Vancouver, British Columbia): A community-focused store offering local and fairly traded products.
Ottawa Valley Food Co-op (Ottawa, Ontario region): An online co-op that supports local farmers and producers.
Co-op Atlantic (Eastern Canada): While some of these stores have changed over time, they originally had a strong co-op tradition, linking consumers and producers.
Berkeley Student Food Collective, Berkeley, California
Oberlin Student Cooperative Association – a housing cooperative and food cooperative in Oberlin, Ohio
Defunct
Citizens Co-op, Gainesville, Florida
Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley, Berkeley
The Cooperative Grocery, Emeryville, California
District Grocery Stores – a former cooperative of small single-room grocery stores in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia that operated from 1921 to 1972.[20]
Harvest Markets, Jamaica Plain and Cambridge, Massachusetts. In operation from 1974 through 2018[21]
