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This is just so fitting for Portland's airport; the entire article and the airport design are quintessentially Portland

Seattle area has the nations largest and oldest grocery co-op - https://www.pccmarkets.com. 16 stores and generally doing well. The answer to how to keep it going is to run it like a grocery chain with experienced leaders and good board governance. In my experience a lot of the smaller coops I've seen have a problem separating the ideology from the need to run a business, grocery is notoriously low margin so a little waste is all that is needed to sink the buisness. Check https://www.ncg.coop/find-co-op to find a co-op near you.

Just to clarify NCG is not a distributor but an overarching organization which helps Grocery Co-ops nationwide to run their business.

A generally used distributer would be UNFI along with using local distributers.