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Today's featured story covers Rainbow Grocery - putting ideals of sustainable living into practice since 1975
But the customers, Edgar thinks, sense the difference from regular grocery stores: Without top-heavy corporate control, the power balance shifts, and the relationship with store staff feels less transactional. Not everyone who shops there knows about the cooperative structure, but enough do that the dynamic shifts. âI actually do feel like the customers are a little more scared of us than they would be at a normal store,â he says. âBecause they kind of know there's not some boss they can just appeal to. And I'm not saying it's goodâ I'm not saying they should fear us.â But, he noted, back in the day, when the store was smaller and the community more close-knit, customers treating staff like servants instead of fellow community members âled to a LOT of frictionâ â to put it nicely.
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Soleil Ho
At Whole Foods, customers treated them like a computer: where is this, show me that, no greeting. At Rainbow, people say hello, ask Medrano how theyâre doing, and share with pride that they've been shopping there for 20 years. Medrano has watched babies in strollers grow into toddlers. On Father's Day, they wished a customer well. âThat's the sort of thing that would be weird at a normal retail grocery store,â they said.
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