The following businesses are or were retailers' cooperatives, which are owned by retail businesses, and provide centralised marketing and buying services.
Grocery stores
- ADM Londis – partially demutualized in 2004
- Affiliated Foods Midwest
- Affiliated Foods Southwest
- Associated Food Stores
- Associated Grocers - acquired by Unified Western Grocers
- Associated Grocers of Florida
- Associated Grocers of Maine
- Associated Grocers of New England
- Associated Grocers of the South
- Associated Supermarkets
- Associated Wholesale Grocers
- Associated Wholesalers
- Central Grocers Cooperative
- Certified Grocers Midwest
- Co-operative Group (also a consumers' cooperative in its own right)
- Coop Norden
- Conad
- E. Leclerc
- Foodstuffs
- The Fresh Grocer (Wakefern Food Corporation)
- IGA
- Nisa
- Olean Wholesale Grocery
- PriceRite (Wakefern Food Corporation)
- ShopRite (Wakefern Food Corporation)
- Shurfine
- Système U
- Topco
- U.R.M. Stores
- Unified Western Grocers Subsidiary of SuperValu
- Western Family Foods acquired by Topco
Pharmacies
- Family Pharmacy[1]
- Good Neighbor Pharmacy[2]
- Health Mart[3]
- IDL Drug Stores (defunct)
- Leader Drug Stores[4]
- Rexall (no longer a retailer)
Hardware stores
- Ace Hardware[6]
- Distribution America (Trustworthy Hardware, Sentry Hardware, Golden Rule Lumber Center, Priced Right Everyday) [7]
- Do It Best[8]
- Handy Hardware[9]
- Home Hardware Stores (Canada) [10]
Distributors
- National Automotive Parts Association
- Val-Test Distributors
- Orgill[15]
- Jensen Distribution Services[16]
Other
- Best Western – hotel marketing
- The Bike Cooperative – began in 2003 as a subsidiary of the Carpet One parent cooperative (CCA Global Partners); in 2009, it became a bona fide cooperative of independent US bike store owners[17][18]
- Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and Interflora (US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively)
- Intres b.v.
- KaleidoScoops
- Lighting One[19]
See also
- Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates – federation of grocers' cooperatives
- Consumers' cooperative
- List of cooperatives
- SPAR – an international grocers' and distributors' marketing and buying association that organizes along similar lines to a co-operative