4th street food co op type consumers cooperative founded 1995 1995 headquarters new york city new york united states products natural food members 300 website 4thstreetfoodcoop . org the 4th street food co op is a food cooperative located in new york city . the 4th street food co op runs a retail store at 58 east 4th street selling natural foods and household products . the co op is member owned and operated but open to the public and focuses on offering locally grown organic and ethically produced products . contents 1 history 2 structure and governance 2.1 membership 2.2 working groups 3 references 4 external links history edit the 4th street food co op is in the space formerly occupied by the good food co op that started in 1973 as a buying club and later opened a store front going out of business in 1992 . in 1995 the good food co op was replaced by the 4th street food co op under the legal corporate name good harvest cooperative incorporated . structure and governance edit membership edit the 4th street food co op is lower manhattan s only food cooperative . 1 monthly meetings are held open to all members where working groups report on the state of the co op and progress made towards projects and goals . additionally members may submit and vote on proposals such as reevaluating pricing and discounts deciding marketing strategy and organizing upcoming community and co op events . additionally a large annual meeting is held to discuss major co op decisions and review the past year . there are several forms of membership roughly divided into working and non working . working members can work 2.25 hours per week either in store or as part of a working group and receive a 20 % discount on all store purchases or share such a membership for a 15 % discount . the annual fee to be a working member is currently 25 . non working members do not work but pay a 35 annual membership fee for 8 % off all purchases . working groups edit responsibilities in addition to staffing the store during opening hours are divided into 12 working groups such as information systems facilities maintenance marketing and an ethics committee . references edit levin dan 2007 01 14 . organic david organic goliath . the new york times . retrieved 2008 09 30 . external links edit official website and wiki coordinates 40 43 39.36 n 73 59 32.59 w 40.7276000 n 73.9923861 w 40.7276000 ; 73.9923861 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 4th street food co op & oldid 737337975 categories consumers cooperatives in the united statesorganic foodfood cooperatives in the united statescompanies established in 1995east village manhattanculture of new york cityhidden categories coordinates not on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 september 2016 at 03 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view