Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Hyde Park Co-op

Follow this link to a really fine speech about the Hyde Park Co-op, the nation's oldest retail food co-op. Board member James Withrow offers a principled and pragmatic peroration about why the Hyde Park community should not give up on cooperation as a good business model for selling groceries.

Unfortunately it appears that the membership of the co-op, this speech notwithstanding, has overwhelmingly voted to sell out rather than press on through bankruptcy.

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