List of retailers' cooperatives
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 Food Stores
- Affiliated Foods Midwest
- Affiliated Foods Southwest
- Associated Food Stores
- Associated 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
- E. Leclerc
- Foodstuffs
- The Fresh Grocer (Wakefern Food Corporation)
- IGA
- Nisa
- Olean Wholesale Grocery
- PriceRite (Wakefern Food Corporation)
- ShopRite (Wakefern Food Corporation)
- Shurfine
- Systeme U
- Topco
- U.R.M. Stores
- Unified Western Grocers
- Western Family Foods
Pharmacies
- Family Pharmacy [1]
- Good Neighbor Pharmacy [2]
- Health Mart [3]
- IDL Drug Stores (defunct)
- Leader Drug Stores [4]
- Rexall (no longer a retailer)
- Valu-Rite [5]
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 [10]
- Mitre 10
- PRO Hardware [11]
- True Value [12]
- United Hardware Distributing Company (Hardware Hank) [13]
- Val-Test Distributors
Distributors
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[16][17]
- Chez Hotels
- Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and Interflora (US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively)
- Intres b.v.
- KaleidoScoops
- Lighting One [18]
- Mr. Tire (Universal Cooperatives)
- Les Mousquetaires
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
References
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- CCA Global Partners (February 2, 2009). "Press release: The Biking Solution Announces Formation of New Member-Owned Co-op". Archived from the original on April 27, 2009. Retrieved April 2, 2009.
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