List of retailers' cooperatives
Not to be confused with Consumers' cooperative.
The following businesses are or were retailers' cooperatives, which are owned by retail businesses, and provide centralised marketing and buying services.
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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
- Certco (food warehouse)
- 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
- U.R.M. Stores
- Unified Western Grocers
- Western Family Foods
Pharmacies
- Dakota Drug [1]
- Family Pharmacy [2]
- Good Neighbor Pharmacy [3]
- Health Mart [4]
- IDL Drug Stores (defunct)
- Leader Drug Stores [5]
- Rexall (no longer a retailer)
- United Drugs [6]
- Valu-Rite [7]
Hardware stores
- Ace Hardware [8]
- Distribution America (Trustworthy Hardware, Sentry Hardware, Golden Rule Lumber Center, Priced Right Everyday) [9]
- Do It Best [10]
- Handy Hardware [11]
- Home Hardware [12]
- Mitre 10
- PRO Hardware [13]
- True Value [14]
- United Hardware Distributing Company (Hardware Hank) [15]
- Val-Test Distributors
Distributors
- National Automotive Parts Association
- Reliable Distributors
- Val-Test Distributors
Other
- Best Western – hotel marketing
- The Bike Cooperative - began in 2003 as a subsidiary of the Carpet One parent cooperative (CCA Global Solutions); in 2009, it became a bona fide cooperative of independent U.S. bike store owners[16][17]
- Carpet One
- http://www.einkaufsgemeinschaften.eu (directory of European buying associations, retailer cooperatives) [18]
- Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and Interflora (US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively)
- The Internet Marketing Cooperative[19]
- Intres b.v.
- KaleidoScoops
- Lighting One [20]
- 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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