The following businesses are or were retailers' cooperatives, which are owned by retail businesses, and provide centralised marketing and buying services.

Grocery stores

ADM Londis Londis is a chain of convenience shop franchises operating in Ireland. The stores form a symbol group and are all owned on a franchise basis. The parent company for Londis Ireland is wholesaler retail grocery franchise operator BWG Foods UC. I ...

– partially demutualized in 2004 *

Affiliated Food Stores Affiliated Foods is a grocery wholesaler. It was founded by the 1968 merger of South Plains Associated Grocers of Lubbock, Texas and the Panhandle Associated Grocers of Amarillo, Texas, and is a retailers' cooperative serving Texas, Oklahoma, Kansa ...

Affiliated Foods Midwest Affiliated Foods Midwest was a retailers' cooperative based in Norfolk, Nebraska, Elwood, Kansas and Kenosha, Wisconsin, serving the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, Nort ...

Affiliated Foods Southwest Affiliated Foods Southwest was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. It was founded in 1948 by C. E. "Doc" Toland, who had worked in a cooperative in Litt ...

Associated Food Stores Associated Food Stores is an American retailers cooperative that supplies about 500 independently owned retail supermarkets throughout Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Nevada, and Wyoming. Description The headquarters for Associa ...

Associated Grocers Associated Grocers was a retailers' cooperative that distributed full lines of groceries and general merchandise. Founded in 1934, it also provided retail services to independent groceries in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam. Based in S ...

* Associated Grocers of Florida *

Associated Grocers of Maine Associated Grocers of Maine was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, USA. It was founded in 1953 and was a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates ...

* Associated Grocers of New England * Associated Grocers of the South *

Associated Supermarkets Associated Foods Holdings, also referred to as Associated Food Stores, Associated Supermarkets or Associated, is the largest group of independently operated supermarkets based in the New York metropolitan area. Associated Supermarkets provide ser ...

Associated Wholesale Grocers Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) is the United States's largest cooperative food wholesaler to independently owned supermarkets and grocery stores. It serves more than 4,000 locations in 36 states and from 8 full-line wholesale divisions. ...

* Associated Wholesalers * Central Grocers Cooperative * Certified Grocers Midwest * Co-operative Group (also a consumers' cooperative in its own right) * Coop Norden *

Conad Conad ('), stylized CONAD, is an Italian retail store brand which operates one of the largest supermarket chains in Italy. Created in 1962, Conad is a cooperative system of entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of e ...

E. Leclerc E.Leclerc (informally simply Leclerc, ) is a French cooperative society and hypermarket chain, headquartered in Ivry-sur-Seine. E.Leclerc was established on 1 January 1948 by Édouard Leclerc in Brittany. E.Leclerc currently has more than 720 ...

Foodstuffs Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is ingest ...

The Fresh Grocer The Fresh Grocer is a supermarket chain based in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania that operates thirteen stores in the Greater Philadelphia region of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1996 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as an independent company, the company be ...

( Wakefern Food Corporation) *

IGA Iga may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Ambush at Iga Pass, a 1958 Japanese film * Iga no Kagemaru, Japanese manga series * Iga, a set of characters from the Japanese novel '' The Kouga Ninja Scrolls'' Biology * ''Iga'' (beetle), a gen ...

* Nisa *

Olean Wholesale Grocery Olean Wholesale Grocery was a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in New York (state), New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. It was founded in 1922 and is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates. It distributed Sh ...

* PriceRite ( Wakefern Food Corporation) * ShopRite ( Wakefern Food Corporation) * Shurfine * Système U *

Topco Topco Associates LLC is the largest American retail food GPO (Group Purchasing Organization) and the sixth largest private company in Illinois. History On September 28, 1944, to deal with wartime shortages, a small cooperative named Food Cooper ...

* U.R.M. Stores *

Unified Western Grocers Unified Grocers, originally Unified Western Grocers, was a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independent supermarkets in the Western United States. It was formed in 1999 by the merger of two West Coast cooperatives, one b ...

Western Family Foods Western Family Foods was founded as the Pacific Mercantile Cooperative on March 3, 1934, by a group of retailer-owned grocery wholesalers. Western Family Foods was established December 19, 1963. The company supplies independent grocery stores w ...

Pharmacies

Family Pharmacy Family Pharmacy is a network of 2,100 independently owned and operated pharmacies. The servicemark Family Pharmacy is owned by AmerisourceBergen. AmerisourceBergen also supplies Good Neighbor Pharmacy, a similar but distinct network. It can be cons ...

* Good Neighbor Pharmacy *

Health Mart Health Mart is an independent pharmacy franchise with more than 5,000 member pharmacies across all 50 states. Each pharmacy is locally owned and operated, allowing Health Mart pharmacy owners to tailor their offerings to the specific communitie ...

IDL Drug Stores IDL Drug Stores or the Independent Drugstores League was a cooperative of independent drugstores that disbanded in the late 1960s. Several drugstores retain the IDL name, including Seebers IDL in Newport, Washington and Schneiders IDL in Minneapol ...

(defunct) *

Leader Drug Stores Leader Drug Stores is a network of over 3,100 independently owned and operated pharmacies. It has a business affiliation with Cardinal Health, which sponsors the network and owns the name "Leader Drug Stores". Cardinal Health also owns the franch ...

* Rexall (no longer a retailer) *

Valu-Rite {{unreferenced, date=February 2014 Valu-Rite is a network of over 4,000 independently owned and operated pharmacies established in 1979. It has a business affiliation with McKesson Pharmaceuticals, which sponsors the network and owns the name "Va ...

Hardware stores

Ace Hardware Ace Hardware Corporation is an American hardware retailers' cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. It is the world's largest hardware retail cooperative, and the largest non-grocery American retail cooperative. Founded in 1924 ...

Distribution America Distribution America was a hardware store retailers' cooperative with 15000 affiliated retail locations. Its programs included the well known Sentry Hardware, Trustworthy Hardware, and Golden Rule Lumber Center brands. On April 1, 2022, Distributi ...

(Trustworthy Hardware, Sentry Hardware, Golden Rule Lumber Center, Priced Right Everyday) * Do It Best *

Handy Hardware Handy Hardware is a hardware store distribution center serving 1,000 retailers in 9 states in the United States, from Colorado to Florida, and in Mexico and Central America as well. It was founded in 1961 in Houston, Texas. Handy Hardware is a mem ...

* Home Hardware * Mica DIY * Mitre 10 * PRO Hardware * True Value *

United Hardware Distributing Company United Hardware Distributing Co. is a dealer-owned corporation based in Maple Grove, Minnesota which provides distribution services for about 610 member-owned stores, the majority of which operate under the Hardware Hank trade name. In addition ...

(Hardware Hank) *

Val-Test Distributors The Val-Test Group is a Buying / Marketing Group for a collective of wholesalers, distributors, dealers and retailers in hardware, paint sundries, electrical, plumbing, housewares, marine, automotive and the decorative art industries. Founded in 19 ...

Distributors

* National Automotive Parts Association *

Orgill Orgill is a large area in the town of Egremont, Cumbria which contains an estimated 1000 inhabitants. Crab Fair Orgill is part of one of the oldest fairs in history, as it is where the crab fair field is every year, which usually contains carniv ...

Jensen Distribution Services Jensen Distribution Services, based in Spokane, Washington, is a wholesale hardware distributor that services over 2,000 customers in 11 western states. Jensen Distribution Services is a member and owner of Distribution America, with members thr ...

Other

* Best Western – hotel marketing * The Bike Cooperative – began in 2003 as a subsidiary of the

Carpet One A carpet is a textile floor covering typically consisting of an upper layer of pile attached to a backing. The pile was traditionally made from wool, but since the 20th century synthetic fibers such as polypropylene, nylon, or polyester have ...

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CCA Global Partners CCA Global Partners, originally called Carpet Co-op of America, is a shared services membership purchasing cooperative company started in 1984 as a carpet cooperative business in Manchester, New Hampshire. It has since expanded into 14 different ...

); in 2009, it became a bona fide cooperative of independent US bike store owners *

Chez Hotels Chez may refer to: * Anthony Chez (1872-1937), American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator * Chez Reavie (born 1981), American golfer * Chez Hotels, an American chain of franchised hotels * CHEZ-FM, a Cana ...

* Florists' Transworld Delivery (FTD) and

Interflora Interflora is a flower delivery network, associated with over 58,000 affiliated flower shops in over 140 countries. It is a subsidiary of Teleflora, a subsidiary of The Wonderful Company. History In 1920 a florist, Joe Dobson, of Leighton's ...

(US and UK/Ireland affiliates demutualized in 1995 and 2006, respectively) * Intres b.v. *

KaleidoScoops KaleidoScoops is an American chain of ice cream shops. It was founded in 1999 by a co-operative of former Baskin-Robbins franchisees after the termination of their franchises. The chain now only has 5 locations in 3 states throughout the U.S. Com ...

* Lighting One *

Mr. Tire Mr. Tire is an American auto service company. The company was founded in 1970 by Joseph Tomarchio Sr. Based out of Rochester, New York, the company provides various automotive repair services across 13 U.S. states. History Mr. Tire was founded ...

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Universal Cooperatives Universal Cooperatives, based in Eagan, Minnesota, was a cooperative controlled by 17 regional agricultural marketing and agricultural supply cooperatives. The distribution system included 110 regional feed mills, 26 warehouses, and 7 researc ...

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Les Mousquetaires Les Mousquetaires, known as in Portugal, is a privately owned retailing symbol group based in France and operating internationally. Its head office is in Bondoufle, France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country pri ...

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