Other stores offer kids free cookies. Co-op Market is different: We’d rather teach them to enjoy healthy treats, and most kids like bananas. So in August 2014 we started the Co+op Explorers club for children ages 12 and under.

Every Co+op Explorer gets a super-official membership card that entitles her to one free banana per Co-op Market visit! After signing up, your child can take a banana from the basket at the Customer Service Desk. He should also grab a sticker to put on so our cashiers know that he’s a Co+op Explorer.

Kids only need to sign up once. After that, every time they visit the store, they can take a sticker and a banana.

Explorers can eat their bananas while parents shop as long as they’re wearing a sticker. At check-out, please mention that your child is an Explorer and had a free banana.

Ask for more information at the Customer Service Desk. And go bananas!