http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/waterfront Questions tagged with 'waterfront' at Ask MetaFilter. Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:19:41 -0800 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:19:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/73476/Does%2Danyone%2Dhave%2Dexperience%2Din%2Dstarting%2Da%2Dcoop How do I start a grocery co-op? Do any mefites have experience with this? Here on the island of Key West, a crisis has developed. Our island's best grocery, Waterfront Market, supplier of fresh seafood and all sorts of goodies for Islanders, our boating communities and the dock workforce, is being by forced to close by a combination of bureaucratic greed and ineptitude. But there is hope!<br> <br> A very solid group of neighbors and citizens has banded together with the idea of taking over the reigns of the market and transforming the successful business - 20 years with 45 employees - into a co-op. And I am spearheading the movement! Any insight or recommendations?<br> <br> (My applicable background is in market research, organic farming, and ecology. I have done the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=how+do+I+start+a+co-op&btnG=Search">google work</a>, and come up with some very good/well-established groundwork. What I am looking for is recommendations and insight based on personal experience in starting a co-op.) tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.73476 Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:19:41 -0800 community co-op grassroots grocery island key life waterfront west humannaire