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AndyTiedye

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4. Cooperatives Are an Antidote to Both the Greed and the Apathy of Capitalists
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 03:28 AM
Apr 2013

Capitalism does some things very well, and some things very badly.
Some things are not profitable enough for it to do at all.

Sometimes a cooperative can do it better.

I was one of the original members of the Cambridge Food Co-op when it started back in the 1970s. There was one supermarket in the neighborhood, known for high prices and produce that had always travelled 3000 miles in a truck, even when it was in season locally.

We built the Cambridge Food Co-op in a basement a few doors down and brought much fresher produce (and everything else), better prices, and a lot of healthy stuff that the supermarket simply didn't carry. The co-op was still there when I left the area some years later, I hear it has combined with another food co-op now.

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