List of retailers' cooperatives
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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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[edit] 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 Louisiana
- 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
- Coop Norden
- Co-operative Group (also a consumers' cooperative in its own right)
- IGA (supermarkets)
- Olean Wholesale Grocery
- Publix
- ShopRite (Wakefern Food Corporation)
- Shurfine
- U.R.M. Stores
- Unified Western Grocers
- Western Family Foods
- Winn-Dixie
[edit] Pharmacies
- Good Neighbor Pharmacy [1]
- Family Pharmacy [2]
- Leader Drug Stores [3]
- United Drugs [4]
- Dakota Drug [5]
- Valu-Rite [6]
- Rexall (no longer a retailer)
- IDL Drug Stores (defunct)
- Health Mart [7]
[edit] Hardware stores
- Handy Hardware [8]
- Hardware Hank [9]
- Do It Best [10]
- True Value [11]
- Distribution America (Trustworthy Hardware, Sentry Hardware, Golden Rule Lumber Center, Priced Right Everyday) [12]
- Ace Hardware [13]
- PRO Hardware [14]
[edit] Distributors
- National Automotive Parts Association
- Reliable Distributors
- Val-Test Distributors
[edit] Other
- Best Western – hotel marketing
- Carpet One
- Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and Interflora (US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively)
- Mr. Tire (Universal Cooperatives)
[edit] See also
- Consumers' cooperative
- List of cooperatives
- SPAR – an international grocers' and distributors' marketing and buying association that organizes along similar lines to a co-operative
