Stuart Reid

Stuart Reid is the Executive Director of Food Co-op Initiative, a non-profit foundation providing technical assistance, information and resources to groups organizing new retail food co-ops across the United States. He served as the Food Co-op Development Specialist for Food Co-op 500 (the pilot project that grew into FCI) for three years. Stuart has an extensive background working with a variety of cooperative and investor-owned businesses. Most recently, he served as General Manager of Just Food: Northfield Community Co-op in Northfield, Minnesota where he had full operational responsibility for its opening and then led the store through its first two successful years. Prior to joining Just Food, Mr. Reid was General Manager of Seward Co-op, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Author's Articles
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Food Co-op Initiative Partners with University of Vermont |
March 6, 2017 | |
Jacqueline Hannah, former general manager of the Common Ground Food Co-op in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, brings her co-op expertise and passion to Food Co-op Initiative where she will share it with |
December 17, 2014 | |
Food Co-op Initiative is thrilled to announce its all-new Guide to Starting a Food Co-op. |
March 15, 2017 | |
This year, the 9th annual Up & Coming food co-op conference invited inquiring minds to explore proven theories and bold experimentation in the Co-op Lab. |
June 28, 2018 | |
My, how you’ve grown! |
June 28, 2018 | |
Food co-op development is often described as coming in “waves.” The first wave co-ops emerged in the early 20th century in response to industrial conditions and the great de |
October 20, 2018 | |
It is hard to avoid the irony that huge portions of rural America—our so-called breadbasket—are considered food deserts. |
December 16, 2018 | |
We are pleased to announce that Renaissance Community Co-op has been chosen as the FCI Startup of the Year and will accept their award in person at CCMA on Friday, June 10th. |
May 29, 2016 | |
At 7:00 p.m. on December 15, Just Food opened its doors for the first time to a waiting crowd. |
117 March - April - 2005 | January 21, 2009 |
139 November - December - 2008 | December 27, 2008 | |
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144 September - October - 2009 | September 22, 2009 |
John Curl has documented a part of America’s cooperative history that few of us are aware of. |
146 January - February - 2010 | December 31, 2009 |
Once a year or so, I have been writing about the work of Food Co-op 500 and the newly forming co-ops that we support. |
147 March - April - 2010 | March 22, 2010 |
Five years of hard work and a million dollars in owner investment have resulted in the store the community dreamed of. |
150 September - October 2010 | October 5, 2010 |
How do you start a new retail food co-op? Can you give me a checklist and a budget? I’ll take it from there! |
149 July - August - 2010* | October 15, 2010 |
St. Peter Food Co-op in Minnesota reincorporated under Minn. 308b statutes, one of the first state limited cooperative associations (LCA) options, in 2007. |
151 November - December 2010 | December 8, 2010 |
Try to define "buying club." Is it a food co-op without a storefront? A stepping stone to a future retail store? A group effort to buy food as cheaply as possible? |
160 May - June - 2012 | June 4, 2012 |
Cultivating cooperation, by its nature, means working with many different groups. |
155 July - August - 2011 | August 28, 2011 |
When Food Co-op 500 was founded in late 2004, it took its name from Marilyn Scholl's challenge to the co-op community to build our sector to 500 storefronts within the next 10 years. |
154 May - June - 2011 | April 25, 2011 |
Six years ago, Food Co-op 500 started with a volunteer task force and no staff. |
152 January - February - 2011 | February 3, 2011 |