Woodrow joined Karma Co-op as a member last spring and now volunteers on the store's finance committee. 'The money, I know, is going to make an operation that I believe in better,' said Woodrow.
About 70 per cent of co-ops are owned by their customers, said Daniel Brunette, senior director of external affairs at Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada.
While there's been a steady increase in consumer-owned grocery co-ops in the U.S. in recent years, Canada hasn't seen the same kind of uptick, said Jon Steinman, author of Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants.
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