This is an unusually useful, realistic and comprehensive guide to co-ops and buying clubs, a practical alternative to overspending or malnourishment for consumers seeking to survive this era of exorbittant food prices and reduced quality. I strongly recommend this book both to individual families and consumer groups, for its specific, detailed information, lists of sources for cooperative buying, and practical advice. ... quoted on back cover by Sidney Margolius, author of Health Foods: Facts and Fakes and The Great American Food Hoax.
BOOK CONTENT:
Chapters Include:
Cooperative Buying: What Is It?
The Small Buying Club
The Large Buying Club
The New Co-op Stores and Storefronts
The Cooperative Supermarket
The New Cooperative Warehouses and Federations
Direct-charge Cooperatives
Low-Income Cooperatives
How to Make Your Co-op Work
How to Buy Food for Your Co-op or Yourself
How to Buy Meat
How to Buy Wine or Supplies for Making Your Own
Bibliography
Names and Locations of Cooperatives
Wholesale Food Supplier
Quoted From DJ:
The inflationary spiral that affected clothing, housing, and education, has hit everyone ... where they eat. Food costs are rising so rapidly and exorbitantly that the situation has become a nationwide crisis. (and now, 38 years later, we are living ... no, existing with ... inflation yet again!)
However, Gloria Stern, a conscientious homemaker, has found a viable solution - through cooperative buying - and HOW TO START YOUR OWN FOOD CO-OP offers an effective and practical guide to buying quality food at reasonable prices.
Ms Stern answers basic consumer questions about food co-ops. How does the private individual organize a co-op? Where can the homemaker find one? Does a co-op really achieve significant savings? What are the areas in which it can save most?
She explains the various types of food and beverage cooperatives and details the steps involved in getting one started. Such basic and essential considerations as the initial organization and management of a co-op, problems which are most likely to arise, and the distribution of work duties and wholesale goods among members, are dealt with in depth.
The author also provides the co-op consumer with a complete guide to wholesale buying, listing the wholesale sources of such items as produce, health foods, and cheeses. And, because wines and meats are the two most expensive and most inflationary items on the average grocery list, she devotes a separate chapter to each. She tells how to buy quality wine in quantity and gives pointers on how to identify grades of meats, how to determine the amount of waste in each cut, and when to shop for the best buys.
For those who do not have a temperament for fasting, it may be time to join or start a food co-op. And HOW TO START YOUR OWN FOOD CO-OP is a vital way to begin."
BOOK DETAIL:
Title: How To Start Your Own Food Co-Op ... A guide To Wholesale Buying
Author: Gloria Stern
Hardbound: Yes
Dust-Jacket: Yes
Approx Size: 5-3/4” x 8-3/8”
Pages: 206
Index: No
Table of Contents: Yes
Copyright Date: 1974
Book Club Edition: Yes
Condition: Book club edition. Book itself is good ... dust jacket is Acceptable with moderate wear. Non-yellowed pages are clean as are the outside page edges, tight to binding with no missing pages, no writing, no folds or tears, joints and hinges good - only flaw is bumped bottom corners. DJ has sun-toning upper front cover (somewhat more than image shows!) and wear with tears on spine and bottom front. Books are NOT from smoke-free or pet-free environment. Please see above 2 images ... I don't know why the supersized image is only showing the top part of the book instead of the whole book? Email with questions or requests.
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