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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s a response to market failures. Grocery stores are owned by corporations and don’t want to invest in low income areas where margins are low.

For some reason, it’s fine when rural white people have co-op grocery stores, often subsidized by a local or state government. But this idea in poor neighborhoods of NYC raises hackles?

Get bent.

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Co-ops are member-owned, are not not government-subsidized.  It's just a different business model, not one dependent on government subsidies.  If a co-op fails, no taxpayer dollars are lost.  [/quote]

Yeah, I don't see why if rural white people can organize coops.  Inner cities people can't.

I mean this is what my parents did.  They would all read a coop book, write down the things they wanted, put in an order.  Then sit in the Walmart parking lot and hand out the items from an 18-wheeler when they arrived.  Many times, members of the coop would team up.  For example, split a five-gallon bucket of peanut butter.

That's what they did.
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