Co-op shoppers and owners – A few short updates on stock levels and some exciting news about our co-op. Since the last update I sent on 6/13, our main wholesaler UNFI has managed to get most ordering systems back online. We’ve received trucks on 5 …
From Our GM: Supplier Update (06/13/25)
Co-op shoppers and owners – I wanted to provide the best update on the UNFI supply issues and the impact on TPSS that I have. The unfortunate news is we still have not received a delivery from UNFI since last Friday. Many categories around the …
From Our GM: A Riff on Tariffs
TPSS Member-Owners and Shoppers, One of the many advantages of owning your own grocery store is access to information that other consumers don’t have. I wanted to talk a little about one of the biggest topics in the industry at the moment: tariffs and the cost …
From Our GM: Our Values Don’t Change Every Four Years
Our Co-op opened its doors in 1981 and we’ve seen seven different Presidential administrations in those forty four years. Each administration has come with different values and priorities during their time in office. TPSS is the largest grocery Co-op inside the Beltway and many of …
From Our GM: Why Did We Do This?
I have 3 different weather apps on my phone. When you’re running a temporary grocery store out of a tent, there’s rarely a moment of the day you’re not thinking about weather. Is it going to be windy today? Heat advisory? Gentle rain? Downpour? You’re …
From Our GM: People First at the Co-op
TPSS Member-Owners, If you don’t start your morning with half a dozen grocery industry trade emails, it’s possible you missed a story back in April about Amazon removing the Just Walk Out technology from their Whole Foods and Amazon Go grocery stores. In describing the …
From Our GM: Cooperation Among Co-ops
TPSS Member-Owners, Most of you may never set foot in the small Syracuse Cooperative Market in upstate New York. You might not make it out to the new Lovettsville Co-op in western Virginia. You’re probably not in the produce buying club of the Community Grocery …
Annual Report: GM Column
A few years back, a few members of the co-op staff were in a meeting with a large non-profit organization. We were discussing ways to partner together and what their model and philosophy were. This particular non-profit was in the food justice space and worked …
Our GM’s Remarks From the Hunger Cliff: A Virtual Food Insecurity Discussion
02/21/2023 SNAP at TPSS Pre-Pandemic Before the pandemic SNAP sales were a relatively small percentage of TPSS sales. From 2013-2019 they were between 1 and half a percent of overall store sales, and were actually declining year over year as a percent of sales. This …
Our GM’s Remarks From the USDA Grant Press Conference
11/28/2022 The Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-op, or TPSS, is a grocery store owned by the community that shops here. Our cooperative business model reminds us that no one in our community achieves anything by themselves, we all grow and progress together. This GusNIP grant …