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District Grocery Stores (DGS) was a cooperative of small single-room grocery stores in Washington, DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.It operated from 1921 to 1972. [1] The goal was to leverage the volume of purchasing power of the cooperative to negotiate better prices from wholesalers and therefore improve their competitiveness.
William Albert Turnage (December 9, 1942 – October 15, 2017) was the director of The Wilderness Society from 1978 to 1985 and business manager of photographer Ansel Adams. He was known for turning the Wilderness Society into a more professional advocacy group, and was an outspoken critic of James G. Watt , the Interior Secretary in the Reagan ...
It was the headquarters of the Equitable Co-operative Building Association, of John Joy Edson. [3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, and is a contributing property to the Downtown Historic District. The 2009 property value of 915 F Street, NW is $3,155,100.
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The following is a list of food cooperative grocery stores and buyers groups, current and defunct. Many of the second-wave food cooperatives formed in the 1960s and 1970s started as buying clubs. [1] This list is not exhaustive, and is limited to notable food cooperatives.
Dominique Ansel has made a name for himself with one of the most creative food crazes to ever hit the country (his decadent Cronuts™). Now, we chat with him about his involvement in the Food ...
A key aspect of the food cooperative model is the socialization of potential profit associated with running a grocery store. In a typical food production model, a store is owned by a company, which is in turn managed by either a board of directors and shareholders if the company is publicly owned, or a collection of private individuals if it is not.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is considering merging the U.S. Agency for International Development with the State Department to boost its efficiency and ensure its spending is ...