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Alto Weekly Online Edition:
The closing of Co-op Market |
Uploaded: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12 a.m.
More than a place to shop "We're like family," Mary Bay, wife of Co-op board president Duane
Bay, Sr., says of the Co-op employees and members. Some Co-op employees
have never worked anywhere else. The Co-op stores used to provide on-site child care while parents
shopped, and the store would special order items for members with
special dietary needs. Selling the last of the Co-op's may be inevitable because of economics,
but that won't make closing the doors for the last time April 7
any easier. 
Two Co-op employees hard at work.
Photo: Don Feria
About 450 Co-op members jammed a meeting in late 193 to talk about
growing financial problems. They persuaded the Co-op board not to
sell the Sunnyvale market.
Photo: Palo Alto Times archives
A Co-op employee helps a shopper.
Photo: Don Feria
Two women look over meat counter selections.
Photo: Don Feria
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