The holiday season brings plenty of celebration—and plenty of waste. Americans generate about 25% more waste during the holidays, with food waste, packaging, single-use plastics, and gift wrapping all contributing to the seasonal surge. The Co-op invited Stephanie Miller, author of Zero Waste Living the …
Carlos, welcome to TPSS! What brought you to the Co-op, and what interested you about the Retail Systems Manager role? I grew up in Takoma Park and have always felt attached to my community. The Co-op has been a bastion of health, multiculturalism, and community …
Over 60 TPSS Co-op Members gathered at the Takoma Park Fire Station on Monday, October 19th for our annual Fall Member Meeting. The meeting began with welcome remarks from the Co-op’s staff and Board and the screening of a short film featuring some of the …
October is Food Waste Prevention Month, and September 28 – October 2 is Food Waste Prevention Week, a time to take a closer look at how much food goes to waste and what we can do to prevent it. At TPSS Co-op, reducing food waste …
by Amy Leo, TPSS Co-op Community Engagement Manager Early this week, the Co-op’s management team gathered in the Takoma Park Fire Station’s meeting room (because our current office space isn’t large enough to hold us all!) to discuss the results of our recent staff survey. …
by Orly Keiner, TPSS Board President On Labor Day, Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology published some disturbing research on the growing use of surveillance technology to control workers at Whole Foods Market. Their findings are laid out in a very readable and compelling …
Dear TPSS Co-op Member-owners, For 45 years, we’ve been proving that a grocery store can be successful while caring for people, community, and the planet. Now, we want to extend the benefits of what we’ve built to a new part of our community by opening a …
By Amy Leo, Community Engagement Manager I’ll be honest, before I started working at TPSS Co-op, I treated it like a typical grocery store. I swung by for milk and bread and late-night ice cream runs. While I knew that membership was an option, nothing …
TPSS Member-owners and Shoppers, Something I’ve always valued about working at TPSS is getting to understand this store’s place in the wider cooperative movement. We’re members of the National Co-op Grocers which represent 170 food co-ops around the country. Our co-op’s strength and knowledge benefit other food …
by Hilary Abell, TPSS Co-op Board of Representatives Member Earlier this month, the United Nations celebrated the International Day of Cooperatives. This worldwide observance has been taking place on the first Saturday in July for more than 20 years. The 2026 theme is “Cooperatives for …