Co-op Market

Grocery & Deli

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Monday - Saturday: 8am - 8pm
Sunday: 10am - 6pm

526 Gaffney Road
Fairbanks, AK 99701
907.457.1023

Help select our 2023 Lend a Hand recipients.

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It’s time to vote for the local nonprofits that will receive our Lend a Hand register round-ups in 2023.

There are 32 nonprofits to consider this year, and 13 of those have never received Lend a Hand donations. Please select 11 organizations for our monthly register round-ups. (We reserve December for a giving tree and round-ups for the Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living.)

Please review the applications linked below before completing the Lend a Hand selection survey. By request, we have arranged the list into two groups: nonprofits that received Lend a Hand donations in the past and those that have not. You can also see how many times an organization has benefitted in parentheses. To view prior years’ donation amounts, click here.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE.

Our survey will remain open through December 24th. Please contact Amber Quesenberry, General Manager gm@coopmarket.org or Ana Molina, Marketing Manager @marketing@coopmarket.org, if you have any questions.

The following applicants have never received Lend a Hand funds:

These applicants received Lend a Hand round-ups in prior years (# times in parentheses):

2022 Annual Owners’ Meeting

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4 p.m. Saturday, April 23, via Zoom

It’s almost time for our Annual Owners’ Meeting! Please take a few moments and register to attend.

Our agenda will include the results of our Board of Directors election and reports on the state of the co-op from our board and general manager. As always, there will be prizes! (You do have to be present at the meeting to win.)

Our special guest this year is Samantha Kirstein, Fairbanks Community Food Bank Community Development Director.

We’ll be meeting via Zoom, so we’ve created a set of Virtual Meeting Guidelines with important rules and instructions. Please read them before attending our meeting.

Note: Registration is required. Please RSVP here. When you register, you will receive the Zoom login information by email as soon as we’ve confirmed that you are an Owner.

Our meeting will start at 4 p.m., but you can enter the waiting room at 3:30 p.m. Please come in at least 15 minutes early to ensure you don’t have any technical problems.

You will be asked to vote by poll to approve the meeting agenda and last year’s minutes during the business meeting.

We look forward to seeing you!

P.S. If you are one of the first 50 Owners to register, we’ll enter you in a drawing for a $100 gift certificate! To win, you must be present when your name is called.

Are You Ready to Save? Truckload Sale This Weekend!

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It’s time for our 4th Annual Truckload Sale! Time to stock up and save up to 50% off when you buy by the case! Sale hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, May 19th, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 20th.

We’ll be offering cases and bags of shelf-stable pantry stockers at significant discounts. Look for great deals on dozens of items, including sustainably caught canned tuna and salmon; organic grains, beans, dried fruits and nuts; coconut and olive oil – and much more. The list of items and pricing is available here.

We’re hoping to make this year’s sale a little easier to shop, so please look for the table marked “Start Here” for instructions and a tally sheet. We’d like for you to shop with the tally sheet in hand, marking down the quantity of items you want. We’ll load your purchases up while you do your regular grocery shopping and pay inside. This should save time for everyone.

We’re celebrating our 5th birthday, so please join us for a free hot dog or veggie dog from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday and free cupcakes and ice cream from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

As if that’s not enough, we’re also celebrating Owner Appreciation Days! Now thru Sunday, Owners receive 10% off all regularly priced items on one entire shopping trip. (As always, the Owner discount excludes our already deeply discounted Co+op Basics and sale items. Although we don’t stack discounts, you always automatically receive the biggest available discount.)

Please note that all sales are good while supplies last. If there’s something on the list that you really want, please be sure to get here early. Many items sell out quickly, and we cannot offer rainchecks.

Listening Sessions: You Can Help Us Plan for the Future

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What do you value about your co-op? When you think about Co-op Market in five years, what do you envision? If you shop at the co-op, our board of directors and management want to hear from you.

Our doors have been open for five years now! Before that we spent six years preparing to open.

Since opening we’ve grown from $2.5 million to almost $4 million in annual sales.

We work with 52 local vendors and are looking for more.

We opened our doors because of you. More than 115 co-op Owners made loans to help us open, and more than 3,700 Owners have invested in our co-op through member equity.

We will be paying back loans for a few more years, so it isn’t quite time to begin planning for expansion. But now is the time for the board and management to start working on a five- to 10-year strategic plan.

Your input will help us hammer out our core values and craft a shared vision. You can help create the framework for making important decisions about our co-op’s future.

As part of its strategic planning process, the board is hosting a series of listening sessions. Please join us on one of the following dates for good food and conversation about the future of your co-op.

• Sunday, April 22, 5 to 8 p.m.
• Tuesday, June 5, 4 to 7 p.m. (Postponed. New date to be announced.)
• Tuesday, July 31, 1 to 4 p.m

All sessions will be held at JP Jones Community Development Center, 2400 Rickert Street.

For more information on the listening sessions and strategic planning process, please email Anduin McElroy, board chair, or Mary Christensen, general manager.

Everyone is welcome!

Worried about Sam’s Club closing? We can help.

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With the announcement that Sam’s Club will close its doors at the end of the month, many people are worried about the negative impact on restaurants and small businesses in our community. We understand the concern and know this will affect not only restaurants and businesses, but also people with large families, those who live in the Bush, and many military families.

We can help.

Special Order Discounts
You probably already know that you can save money by shopping in our Bulk Foods aisle. But did you know that you can get a discount when you order staples in bulk or cases of the groceries on our shelves? Owners receive a 10% discount on special orders, but anyone can place a special order and receive a 5% discount. (These discounts apply to non-sale items.)

Stretching Co+op Deals Sales
If you’re familiar with our twice-monthly Co+op Deals flyer, you know that these sales represent significant savings. Did you know you can special order cases of these items anytime during the flyer period and receive the sale price, no matter when the product actually arrives in the store? This is a great way to take advantage of special pricing to stretch your grocery budget.

Case Pricing on Overstock
From time to time, we do find ourselves with overstock. We will offer case pricing on these items, while supplies last. Look for them on the back endcap near the dairy products. (We’re setting it up with some Bob’s Red Mill products later today.)

Business Accounts
If you’re a fully invested co-op Owner who also owns a small business or restaurant, we can help you source high quality organic and natural products for use in your business. We can offer bulk bags or cases of products, including fresh produce, at our cost, including shipping, plus 20%. If you purchase items for your business from our shelves (rather than ordering by the case), we offer a 10% discount.

This offer is only extended to licensed businesses that use the products for resale. Eligible businesses include small restaurants, bed & breakfasts, inns and tour operators – any small business that purchases groceries for large groups of people. (Business discounts only apply to groceries used for business. Family groceries must be purchased at our regular prices.)

You can find our business account application here.

We do understand the gap Sam’s Club’s closing creates. We also see it as an opportunity to do more for our community. We’re exploring ways to offer even more savings and benefits to bridge that gap. And because we’re a community-owned grocery store, we don’t have outside shareholders who would rather close a store to maximize profit at the expense of community. We belong to you, and we’re here to stay!

P.S. Don’t forget our annual Truckload Sale in May! We expect this year’s sale to be even bigger and better than ever!

Owners: Vote for 2017 Lend-a-Hand Recipients

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Our Lend-a-Hand register round-up is undoubtedly one of our most popular programs. Since October 2013, our shoppers have rounded up at the register and donated an astounding $32,540 in spare change to support local organizations doing good in our community.

We have 21 applications for our 2017 Lend-a-Hand program. We invite our Owners to select 11 of them for our monthly round-ups. (December is reserved for collecting necessities for the shelter residents at the Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living.)

Asterisks indicate organizations that have not received Lend-a-Hand support in previous years.

If you would like to see previous Lend-a-Hand organizations and totals, click here.

Owners: Help Us Choose 2016 Lend-a-Hand Recipients

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Small change really does add up to create big changes!

By rounding up at the register and donating the difference, our shoppers have contributed more than $18,970 to local nonprofit organizations since the Lend-a-Hand program started in October 2013. We are proud to say that 100% of our customer’s round-ups go to support the designated charities.

In fact, Lend-a-Hand is so popular with our customers that we’ve decided to do it every month in 2016, rather than six times a year as originally planned.

We have 15 applications this year, and we invite our Owners to select 11 of them for our monthly round-ups. (December is reserved for collecting necessities for the shelter residents at the Interior Alaska Center for Nonviolent Living.)

Here are the 15 organizations being considered for the 2016 program. Click the name of the nonprofit to visit its website or Facebook page. The links beside the listing lead to its application materials. (Please note: Some of these are large .pdf files and will take time to load.)

Organizations with an asterisk received Lend-a-Hand donations in 2015.

Owners: Please complete this survey to make your choices.

We Did It! 110 New Owners!

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We reached our Ownership Drive goal of 110 new Owners during the first week of September – just before Labor Day and the enradish redux editd of summer.

And we’re already putting the new equity we raised to good use. Look around the store next time you come in, and you’ll find lots of improvements.

  • We put up a new end cap for bread, with a lot more capacity than the old shelves. We’re keeping it as full as possible. (BTW: Have you noticed our new, lower price on Dave’s Killer Bread?)
  • We’ve brought in lots of new products, including kitchen gadgets & accessories and a greatly expanded selection of Hispanic foods.
  • We’ve got new shelving in the Bulk Foods department that allows our buyer to work more efficiently as she’s stocking the bins.
  • Hot food items are on the way! We’ve got a food warmer set up on the Deli counter – and the Deli crew is getting ready to stock it. (Huge thanks to Yolande Fejes and Ron Velez at Alaska House Art Gallery for helping us get it.)
  • And there’s lots more to come!

Thank you for investing in Co-op Market!

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  • Monday-Saturday: 8am – 8pm
  • Sunday: 9am – 7pm

 

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