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How bulk food has helped Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco thrive for 50 years

In a supermarket world where Amazon owns Whole Foods, and private equity investors own Safeway and Albertsons, Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in San Francisco has succeeded by sticking to what its founders envisioned 50 years ago.

The San Francisco supermarket was founded in 1975 by activists of the People's Food movement. They formed a worker-owned collective that sold local, organic food in bulk. Fifty years later, that mission lives on.

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