National Co+op Grocers (NCG), founded in 1999, is a business services cooperative for retail food co-ops located throughout t ... he United States. We represent 147 food co-ops operating over 200 stores in 39 states with combined annual sales over $2.3 billion and over 1.3 million consumer-owners. NCG helps unify natural food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power, and ultimately offer more value to natural food co-op owners and shoppers everywhere. By providing a variety of purchasing, management, development, marketing and other services, our co-ops are able to gain many of the advantages large grocery chains enjoy, while still reflecting the unique qualities of their local communities. For a map of NCG member co-ops, visit our Find-a-Co-op page. To learn more about co-ops, visit www.grocery.coop. read more