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RKP5637

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1. I agree, especially with grocery stores. The prices here are outrageous and they just keep going

Reply to Rosa Luxemburg (Original post)

Fri May 22, 2015, 10:17 PM

May 2015

up. Some of my friends that are professional buyers in the grocery business tell me the markup and profits and really outrageous. Consumers are cheated a fair price as are employees for wages.

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COOPERATIVES should be more popular [View all] Rosa Luxemburg May 2015 OP

I agree, especially with grocery stores. The prices here are outrageous and they just keep going RKP5637 May 2015 #1

both workers and consumers could have their say Rosa Luxemburg May 2015 #2

Good call beerdragon May 2015 #11

Community gardens are getting more popular, at least in places where they're possible arcane1 May 2015 #4

It's a great idea! Rosa Luxemburg May 2015 #6

And it is a way to JOIN! arcane1 May 2015 #10

We really do! We need to look at how to make core necessities for life RKP5637 May 2015 #7

AGREED! It's funny, sometimes I will bring up this concept and get blank stares in return. arcane1 May 2015 #3

I shop at Coop stores when I am in the UK Rosa Luxemburg May 2015 #5

Abso-fucking-lutely ...AND Worker-owned Co-ops ARE in Bernie's Economic Platform. 99th_Monkey May 2015 #8

I used to use the Cooperative Bank Rosa Luxemburg May 2015 #17

Yep. 99th_Monkey May 2015 #18

A good example of this is the Montdragon system in the Basque region of Spain. brush May 2015 #9

co-op grocery stores growing in chi town. mopinko May 2015 #12

In Hyde Park , back in the day . .. PosterChild May 2015 #13

chicago's other "people's republic" mopinko May 2015 #14

All right - Rogers Park... PosterChild May 2015 #16

I've heard in the past that SAIC... PosterChild May 2015 #15