List of retailers' cooperatives - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The following businesses are or were retailers' cooperative

Retailers' cooperative

A retailers' cooperative is a type of cooperative which employs economies of scale on behalf of its retailer members. Retailers' cooperatives use their purchasing power to acquire discounts from manufacturers and often share marketing expenses. It is common for locally owned grocery stores,...

s, which are owned by retail businesses, and provide centralised marketing and buying services.

Grocery stores

ADM Londis – partially demutualized in 2004
Affiliated Food Stores
Affiliated Food Stores
Affiliated Foods is a grocery wholesaler. It was founded by the 1968 merger of South Plains Associated Grocers of Lubbock, Texas and the Panhandle Associated Grocers of Amarillo, Texas, and is a retailers' cooperative serving Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Wyoming....
Affiliated Foods Midwest
Affiliated Foods Midwest
Affiliated Foods Midwest is a retailers' cooperative based in Norfolk, Nebraska and Elwood, Kansas and serving the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan...
Affiliated Foods Southwest
Affiliated Foods Southwest
Affiliated Foods Southwest was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. It was founded in 1948 by C. E. "Doc" Toland, who had worked in a cooperative in Little Rock, Arkansas called Model Markets...
Associated Food Stores
Associated Food Stores
Associated Food Stores is an American retailers cooperative that supplies about 500 independently owned retail supermarkets throughout Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Nevada and Wyoming. The company was founded by Donald P. Lloyd in 1940, who was the president of the Utah Retail...
Associated Grocers
Associated Grocers
Associated Grocers was a retailers' cooperative that distributed full lines of groceries and general merchandise. Founded in 1934, it also provided retail services to independent groceries in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam...
Associated Grocers of Florida
Associated Grocers of Florida
Associated Grocers of Florida is a retailers' cooperative that distributes full lines of groceries and general merchandise. Founded in 1945, it provides retail services to independent groceries....
Associated Grocers of Louisiana
Associated Grocers of Louisiana
Associated Grocers of Louisiana is a retailers' cooperative serving over 260 independent supermarkets in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama, and Arkansas. It was founded on May 23, 1950 and is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. It distributes Shurfine products in its...
Associated Grocers of Maine
Associated Grocers of Maine
Associated Grocers of Maine was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, USA. It was founded in 1953 and was a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. It distributed Shurfine products in its stores. It went into...
Associated Grocers of New England
Associated Grocers of New England
Associated Grocers of New England is a retailers' cooperative serving over four hundred independent supermarkets in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It was founded in 1946 as New Hampshire Wholesale Grocers and took the present name in 1969....
Associated Grocers of the South
Associated Grocers of the South
Associated Grocers of the South was founded in 1927 by 13 local grocery store owners from Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States. Led by Larry Grimes, they chose to establish a retailers' cooperative to compete against the emerging chain stores. The organization has expanded from of public...
Associated Supermarkets
Associated Supermarkets
Associated Supermarkets is a retailers' cooperative of grocery stores based in New York City. Its stores are in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island, and New Jersey....
Associated Wholesale Grocers
Associated Wholesale Grocers
Associated Wholesale Grocers is the second-largest retailer-owned grocery wholesaler in the United States, after Wakefern Food Corporation. The cooperative serves over 1,900 stores in 21 states. It was founded in 1924 as Associated Grocers of Kansas City and is based in Kansas City, Kansas...
Associated Wholesalers
Associated Wholesalers
Associated Wholesalers, Inc. is a retailers' cooperative based in Robesonia, Pennsylvania. It distributes food to member owners who are independent supermarkets. It owns the Shurfine Markets supermarket chain in Pennsylvania....
Central Grocers Cooperative
Central Grocers Cooperative
Central Grocers Cooperative, founded in 1917, is a retailers' cooperative based in Joliet, Illinois near Chicago. It distributes both brand name and private label goods branded as Centrella and Silver Cup Value Buy to about 240 member-owner grocery stores in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.It...
Certco (food warehouse)
Certified Grocers Midwest
Certified Grocers Midwest
Certified Grocers Midwest was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. It was founded in 1940 and was a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. Many of its stores served the Hispanic community. It...
Coop Norden
Coop Norden
Coop Norden is a joint Scandinavian holding company, formerly a retail chain. It is owned by three major cooperative retail companies; Danish FDB , Swedish KF , and Norwegian Coop NKL . As a retailer Coop Norden operated around 1,000 stores and had a yearly turnover of approximately SEK 90 billion...
Co-operative Group (also a consumers' cooperative
Consumers' cooperative
Consumer cooperatives are enterprises owned by consumers and managed democratically which aim at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of their members. They operate within the market system, independently of the state, as a form of mutual aid, oriented toward service rather than pecuniary profit...

in its own right)
IGA (supermarkets)
IGA (supermarkets)
IGA is a brand of grocery stores active in more than 30 countries. Contrasting with the chain store business model, IGA operates as a franchise through stores that are owned separately from the brand. Many of these stores operate in small town markets and belong to families that manage them...
Nisa-Today's
Olean Wholesale Grocery
Olean Wholesale Grocery
Olean Wholesale Grocery is a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. It was founded in 1922 and is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. It distributes Shurfine products in its stores....
Publix
Publix
Publix Super Markets, Inc. is an American supermarket chain based in Lakeland, Florida.Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, it is an employee-owned, privately held corporation. Publix is currently ranked No. 86 on Fortune magazine's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For 2010 and was ranked No...
ShopRite
ShopRite (United States)
ShopRite Supermarkets is a retailers' cooperative chain of supermarkets in the northeastern United States, with stores in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania...

(Wakefern Food Corporation
Wakefern Food Corporation
The Wakefern Food Corp., founded in 1946 and based in Keasbey, New Jersey , is the largest co-operative group of supermarkets in the United States...

)
PriceRite
PriceRite
PriceRite, based in Wethersfield, CT, is a chain of limited-assortment supermarkets throughout the U.S. States of Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland and California. There are currently 49 PriceRite stores and the chain is growing fast, opening 6 new stores...

(Wakefern Food Corporation
Wakefern Food Corporation
The Wakefern Food Corp., founded in 1946 and based in Keasbey, New Jersey , is the largest co-operative group of supermarkets in the United States...

)
Shurfine
Shurfine
Shurfine International is a distributor of private label and store brands for independent supermarkets and convenience stores throughout the United States...
U.R.M. Stores
U.R.M. Stores
URM Stores, Inc. of Spokane, Washington is an American retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. It was founded in 1921 and is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. It is an owner of Western Family Foods...
Unified Western Grocers
Unified Western Grocers
Unified Grocers, originally Unified Western Grocers, is a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independent supermarkets in the Western United States. It was formed in 1999 as the merger of United Grocers of Oregon and Certified Grocers of California...
Western Family Foods
Western Family Foods
Western Family Foods was founded as the Pacific Mercantile Cooperative on March 3, 1934 by a group of retailer-owned grocery wholesalers. Western Family Foods was established December 19, 1963. The company supplies independent grocery stores with store brands...
Winn-Dixie

Pharmacies

Good Neighbor Pharmacy
Good Neighbor Pharmacy
Good Neighbor Pharmacy is an American retailers' cooperative network of over 3,700 independently owned and operated pharmacies. It has a business affiliation with AmerisourceBergen, which sponsors the network and owns the name "Good Neighbor Pharmacy". Good Neighbor Pharmacy received the highest...

http://www.mygnp.com/
Family Pharmacy
Family Pharmacy
Family Pharmacy is a network of 2,100 independently owned and operated pharmacies. The servicemark Family Pharmacy is owned by AmerisourceBergen. AmerisourceBergen also supplies Good Neighbor Pharmacy, a similar but distinct network. It can be considered a retailers' cooperative....

http://www.familypharmacy.com
Leader Drug Stores
Leader Drug Stores
Leader Drug Stores is a network of over 3,100 independently owned and operated pharmacies. It has a business affiliation with Cardinal Health, which sponsors the network and owns the name "Leader Drug Stores". Cardinal Health also owns the franchise chain The Medicine Shoppe. It operates like a...

http://www.myleaderdrug.com/
United Drugs http://www.uniteddrugs.com/
Dakota Drug
Dakota Drug
Dakota Drug is a health care products supplier to independent pharmacies in the Upper Midwest. It also provides marketing and promotional materials. The company was founded in 1948....

http://www.dakdrug.com/
Valu-Rite
Valu-Rite
Valu-Rite is a network of over 4,000 independently owned and operated pharmacies established in 1979. It has a business affiliation with McKesson Pharmaceuticals, which sponsors the network and owns the name "Valu-Rite"...

http://www.valu-rite.com/docs
Rexall
Rexall
Rexall was a chain of North American drugstores, and the name of their store-branded products. The stores, having roots in the federation of United Drug Stores starting in 1902, licensed the Rexall brand name to as many as 12,000 drug stores across the United States from 1920 to 1977...

(no longer a retailer)
IDL Drug Stores
IDL Drug Stores
IDL Drug Stores or the Independent Drugstores League was a cooperative of independent drugstores that disbanded in the late 1960s. Several drugstores retain the IDL name, including Seebers IDL in Newport, Washington and Schneiders IDL in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Among their promotional items were...

(defunct)
Health Mart
Health Mart
Health Mart is a network of more than 2,500 independently owned and operated pharmacies. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of McKesson Pharmaceuticals, which owns the name "Health Mart."...

http://www.healthmart.com

Hardware stores

Handy Hardware
Handy Hardware
Handy Hardware is a hardware store retailers' cooperative serving 1,200 retailers in 12 states in the United States, from Colorado to Florida, and in Mexico and Central America as well. It was founded in 1954 in Houston, Texas....

http://www.handyhardware.com
Hardware Hank
United Hardware Distributing Company
United Hardware Distributing Co. is a dealer-owned corporation based in Plymouth, Minnesota which provides distribution services for about 610 member-owned stores, the majority of which operate under the Hardware Hank trade name. In addition, the company services about 800 other stores owned by...

http://www.unitedhardware.com
Do It Best
Do It Best
Do It Best Corp. is a hardware store retailers' cooperative. It was founded as Hardware Wholesalers, Inc in 1945 in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Arnold H. Gerberding along with 75 dealers who would become members and invest $1,000 in exchange for shares of stock in the company. Donald Wolf was CEO...

http://doitbest.com/
True Value
True Value
True Value Company is a retailer-owned hardware cooperative with over 5,000 independent retail locations worldwide. Members of the True Value cooperative own their individual stores and operate independently of True Value Company....

http://www.truserv.com/
Distribution America (Trustworthy Hardware, Sentry Hardware, Golden Rule Lumber Center, Priced Right Everyday) http://www.daonline.com
Ace Hardware
Ace Hardware
Ace Hardware Corporation is a hardware cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. ACE Hardware Corporation, with 4,444 stores, does over $3 billion in retail hardware sales annually down from its peak of $12.5 billion in 2007.-History:...

http://www.acehardware.com/
PRO Hardware http://www.prohardware.com/

Distributors

National Automotive Parts Association
National Automotive Parts Association
The National Automotive Parts Association was founded in 1925 to meet America's growing need for an auto parts distribution system. It is a retailers' cooperative that distributes parts to both corporately and independently owned auto parts stores.NAPA's parent company is Genuine Parts Company , ...
Reliable Distributors
Val-Test Distributors
Val-Test Distributors
Val-Test Distributors, Inc. is a cooperative that supplies over 100 wholesalers who distribute to 22,000 hardware, sundries, plumbing, electrical, variety and marine retailers. It was founded in 1962 and has sales in excess of $2 billion per year. It markets Keen-Kutter private label products.The...

Other

Best Western
Best Western
Best Western International, Inc. is the third largest hotel chain, with over 4,195 hotels in nearly 80 countries. The chain, with its corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, operates more than 2,000 hotels in North America alone. Best Western has a marketing program involving placement of free...

– hotel marketing
Carpet One
Carpet One
Carpet One Floor & Home is a home design retailers' cooperative in the carpet, rug, and other home design products in North America, New Zealand, and Australia. It was formed in 1985 and by 2007 had over 1000 stores internationally. It is the largest of all the flooring buying groups...
http:\\www.einkaufsgemeinschaften.eu (Directory of european buying associations, retailer cooperatives)
Florists' Transworld Delivery
Florists' Transworld Delivery
-Going public:In 1994, FTD began a process of demutualization.On December 19, 1994, a precursor to the FTD Corporation, a private, for-profit company, acquired FTD, which then divided FTD into two organizations: FTD Incorporated, a for profit corporation, and FTD Association, a non-profit trade...

(FTD) and Interflora
Interflora
Interflora is the most commonly used name for a group of organisations worldwide, providing florists with a brand under which flowers can be purchased and delivered to 140 countries, most with their own partnership, or unit.- History :...

(US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively)
Mr. Tire
Mr. Tire
Mr. Tire is the name of several tire dealers in the United States.The first Mr. Tire is a distributor of tires in the United States. It distributes CO-OP brand tires among others, and is controlled by Universal Cooperatives. It is retailers' cooperative, whose members owned the company. It was...

(Universal Cooperatives
Universal Cooperatives
Universal Cooperatives, based in Eagan, Minnesota, is a cooperative controlled by 17 regional agricultural marketing and agricultural supply cooperatives. The distribution system includes 110 regional feed mills, 26 warehouses, and 7 research farms...

)
Intres b.v.
Intres B.V.
Intres B.V. is a Dutch retail organisation, established in Hoevelaken. The company provides various services to owners of shops and is franchisor of such brands as Intersport, Livera and Libris.Intres B.V...
Lighting One
Lighting One
Lighting One is an American company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Owned by CCA Global Partners, Lighting One is a co-op of home furnishing member showrooms that specialize in lighting fixtures...

http://www.lighting-one.com
The Bike Cooperative
The Bike Cooperative
The Bike Cooperative is a cooperative of specialty bicycle retailers throughout the United States. The cooperative is represented in 40 states by over 300 member stores that are independently owned and operated.- History :...

http://www.thebikecooperative.com began in 2003 as a subsidiary of the Carpet One
Carpet One
Carpet One Floor & Home is a home design retailers' cooperative in the carpet, rug, and other home design products in North America, New Zealand, and Australia. It was formed in 1985 and by 2007 had over 1000 stores internationally. It is the largest of all the flooring buying groups...

parent cooperative (CCA Global Solutions). In 2009, it became a bona fide cooperative of independent U.S. bike store owners.
KaleidoScoops
KaleidoScoops
KaleidoScoops is an American chain of ice cream shops. It was founded in 1999 by a co-operative of former Baskin-Robbins franchisees after the termination of their franchises...

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