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 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)
• Nisa-Today's
• Olean Wholesale Grocery
• Publix
• ShopRite (Wakefern Food Corporation)
• PriceRite (Wakefern Food Corporation)
• Shurfine
• U.R.M. Stores
• Unified Western Grocers
• Western Family Foods
• Winn-Dixie

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]

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]

Distributors

• National Automotive Parts Association
• Reliable Distributors
• Val-Test Distributors

Other

• Best Western – hotel marketing
• Carpet One
• http:\\www.einkaufsgemeinschaften.eu (Directory of european buying associations, retailer cooperatives)
• Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and Interflora (US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively)
• Mr. Tire (Universal Cooperatives)
• Intres b.v.
• Lighting One [15]
• The Bike Cooperative[16] 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.^[1]
• KaleidoScoops

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