French Broad Food Co-op Building in 1936
French Broad Food Co-op Building in 1936
By JON STEINMAN is the author of “Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants” (New Society Publishers, 2019). “Who owns your grocery store?” It’s the question emblazoned on the back of a van that has ferried me across 34 states to visit 128 consumer-owned grocery stores (food co-ops) and another …
Focusing on natural foods was seen as alternative — even a little weird — around the time a small group of people who took eating right seriously hatched the idea that became French Broad Food Co-Op. The food-buying club started on a few front porches in the mid-1970s, made its first expansion by moving into …
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