Trouble at the COOP

Won’t Work for Food

Horror stories of the country’s largest member-owned cooperative grocery store

By Diane Mehta

I've never been a member of a Food CoOp, having to scramble far and wide for good local produce here in Fort Worth. A couple of good articles, from CHOW.com and The New York Times, cite the difficulties at the Park Slope Food Coop where 15,000 members enjoy savings of up to 40 percent on environmentally friendly groceries.

Flunking Out at the Food Co-op