6 Tips for a Low-Waste Thanksgiving
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 ...
Meet Carlos Fuentes, our new Retail Systems Manager!
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 ...
What you missed! 2026 Fall Member Meeting Recap
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 ...
Every Week is Food Waste Prevention Week at TPSS
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 ...
2026 Staff Survey Reflects An Engaged and Highly Satisfied Team
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 ...
In the Age of AI and “Whole Worker Surveillance,” Co-ops are Still About People
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 ...
Special Announcement from the Co-op: Invest Where You Live, Invest with Your Values
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 ...
A Behind the Shelves Look at How (and Why) We’re Not a Regular Grocery Store
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 ...
150 million members strong… including you
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 ...
Cooperation Connects Communities Across the World
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 ...
