topic : Olympia Food Coop
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June 2007
by Janet Blanding
The imminent closing of the downtown Olympia Safeway on June 9 may result in the realization of a longtime dream of many Olympians: A downtown Olympia Food Co-op. Staff collective member Grace Cox confirmed that the Co-op is aggressively pursuing the option of moving into the space that will soon be vacated by the departing Safeway grocery.
"At this point, Safeway holds the cards," said Cox, "because they hold the lease for five more years."
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October 2006
by Austin Kelley
World Vision International, despite it's voluminous PR machine, has long been notorious as a right-wing Christian charity with an extensive history of working worldwide with the CIA, the State Department, and other such agents of US Imperialism. "Salsa So Fresh," made in Shelton, and sold at the Olympia Food Co-op, proudly advertises World Vision as benefiting financially from each sale, and goes on to advertise worldvision.org on each tub of this salsa fresca, for allegedly being an organization that is getting at "the root causes of poverty."
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October 2006
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Tubs of Salsa So Fresh in the Westside Co-op cooler. (Photo by Sandy Mayes)
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October 2006
by Grace Cox,
Co-op staff collective member
Product selection at the Co-op is guided by two articulated values statements. First, the Co-op mission statement gives the following mandates:
MISSION
The purpose of the Cooperative is to contribute to the health and well-being of people by providing wholesome foods and other goods and services, accessible to all, through a locally-oriented, collectively managed, not-for-profit cooperative organization that relies on consensus decision making. We strive to make human effects on the earth and its inhabitants positive and renewing and to encourage . . .
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October 2006
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Store sign in front of the westside Olympia Food Co-op. (Photo by Sandy Mayes)
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October 2006
by Andrew McLeod
October is International Co-op Month, which is a great chance to support the movement to build a more just and democratic economy. You can do this in a variety of ways; by doing business with existing cooperatives, and by helping to start new ones.
Shop Co-op!
The simplest way to support co-ops is with your business. In Olympia, the food co-op is an obvious place to do this. But there are also other cooperative businesses in and around our community.
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September 2003
For those who read last month’s opinion pieces about the Food Co-op’s purchase of price scanners, WIP would like to inform you that the Co-op will be addressing this issue in the fall edition of the Co-op News. So watch for the Co-op News in order to read more information and opinions from a variety of perspectives on the decision to bring scanners to the Co-op.
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August 2003
David Lavender:
Recently I found out that the Coop was thinking about buying scanners. I heard that a couple of my friends were going to a forum that night on the subject to share their opinions and get some information. The news I got was that the decision had already been made and the Coop was going to take out an $80,000 plus loan to pay for them. So a few of us who did not like the decision, nor the lack of notification and inclusiveness in making that decision, got together and arranged for a meeting with the board of the Coop. The day before our meeting we were informed by a board member . . .
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