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Thanks to Instacart's pricing games, families could end up paying about $1,200 more per year — without ever knowing why.

It’s time for Instacart to shut down the lab. Grocery shoppers aren’t guinea pigs. We can’t afford the Instacart tax.

You can check out the team's full report ⤵️
Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative
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December 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Garlic and Roses was invited to observe a monthslong investigation into Instacart dynamic pricing strategies conducted by Consumer Reports and the Groundwork Collaborative.

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Investigation: Instacart Dynamic Grocery Pricing
You grab a box of crackers marked $2.99 off the shelf at the grocery store and put it into your basket.  As your wealthy neighbor approaches the shelf, the price increases to $3.09.  A mother of three...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our latest from Noemi Giszpenc at Keystone Development Center looks at local buying at 5 different urban co-ops. How do stores source locally, balancing order logistics, costs and seasonality?

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Local Is as Local Does: Lessons from Produce Buyers at Five Urban Food Co-ops
The National Cooperative Grocers Association reports that its members sell on average over 10 times the local products that conventional grocers do. As consumer-owned grocery stores, food co-ops have ...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The second edition of LeAnna's delightful Goss+ dropped over the holiday. Enjoy the co-op lore and reach out with your own contribution to the next one

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Goss+ 11/26
Welcome to another Goss+, your source for juicy co-op lore Have a little Goss+ of your own? Stock our shelves; email us your stories at staff@garlicandroses.coop and we'll anonymize them
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December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Check out our recap of the NCBA CLUSA 2025 Cooperative IMPACT Conference. Visit the website for more co-op month content and subscribe to our newsletter so you never miss a thing.

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Built For This: IMPACT 2025
"This is what co-ops are built for" This year’s Cooperative IMPACT Conference, hosted by the National Cooperative Business Association CLUSA International (NCBA CLUSA), had a number of references to ...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
For everyone heading to the Mid-Atlantic Food Cooperative Alliance (MAFCA) Fall Conference in Philly this weekend, Tyler has a playlist of songs from the City of Brotherly Love. Thanks to Weavers Way Co-op for hosting

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Tyler's Philly Playlist
In honor of this weekend's MAFCA Fall Conference in Philadelphia, here's a list of Philly songs to enjoy on the way. 1. Private Lives - Low Cut Connie The eponymous leadoff tune from Philadelphi...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Happy #coopmonth from Garlic and Roses. As grocery chain conglomerates and billionaire-owned media companies continue to put profits over everything, cooperatives invest in people and their communities. The cooperative difference is real and we're proud to tell their stories. garlicandroses.coop
October 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Our latest from LaDonna Sanders Redmond, building on her panel at CCMA, discusses the history of food apartheid in America and why our language matters

#foodcoops #foodjustice

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Food Apartheid: History, Cooperation, and Justice
I. Introduction: Naming and Framing the Problem The language we use to describe inequities matters. For decades, policymakers and researchers have used the term “food desert” to describe neighborhood...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Co-op news round up for mid-September featuring openings, closings, hirings and more.

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Co-op News Round Up: 9/16
Happy mid-September. The weather is cooling down but the co-op news is heating up. Here's all the links fit to read: 🌹The Bethlehem Co-op Market in Pennsylvania is now offering online shopping ahead ...
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September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
There can only be one. In episode 1 of Let's Try This Together, Jeremy and Tyler crown the best tasting Coconut Water and discuss proper mug washing protocol.

#foodcoops #coconutwater

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Episode 1: Coconut Water
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September 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Check out our new piece about the government's retreat from food safety, and where food co-ops can step in.

"We may very well again be entering an era where people cannot inherently trust the government to protect the health of people or the planet."

#foodcoops

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Who You Gonna Trust?
The last month has seen a number of headlines that signal the government retreating from public health and safety.  The state of Florida plans to end school vaccine requirements.  The USDA is cancelli...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Read about what Cooperative Community Development is building in Baltimore's Irvington neighborhood. The project includes a farm, a teahouse and a cooperative grocery store.

#foodcoop #baltimore

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A Dose of Hope
The pinpoints of a dozen CCD spaces across a half-mile radius laid out a vision for the possible future of CCD in this historic West Baltimore community.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Curious about the intersection of coding and crops? Read this new piece about building out digital systems to assist with greater cooperation among independent food markets

#foodcoops #localfood

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Digital Infrastructure for a Truly Cooperative Food System
When food co-ops and producers coordinate through platforms they collectively steward and govern, local food systems can become economically competitive with corporate alternatives while building the ...
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September 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Happy Labor Day! Garlic and Roses has officially launched with our first round of videos and articles on the website now. Take a look and let us know what you think!

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September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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August 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Garlic and Roses is a brand new source for stories about, by and for food co-ops

The site launches next Monday 9/1

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August 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM