NCG Adds Two New Members and Announces Grand Opening Date for Wasatch, Salt Lake City’s First Co-op Grocery Store

Saint Paul, MN - National Co+op Grocers (NCG), the business services cooperative for retail food co-ops nationwide, today welcomes two new member co-ops: Fare Share Food Co-op in Norway, ME, and Greene Hill Food Co-op in Brooklyn, NY, bringing its total to 169 member co-ops and 241 storefronts in 40 states.

NCG's Board of Directors approved the two co-ops as new members effective May 1, 2026.

Greene Hill Food Co-op is a member-worker co-op in that serves the Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Fort Greene areas of Brooklyn, NY. Greene Hill opened in 2011. The co-op generated $1.5 million in annual sales in 2025 and averaged 28% growth over prior year.

Fare Share Food Co-op opened in 1976 and operates out of a historic building the co-op owns on Main Street in downtown Norway, ME. The co-op generated $941K in 2025, with 33.5% year-over-year sales growth.

"We are thrilled to welcome Greene Hill and Fare Share Food Co-ops into the NCG network," said Dave Olson, Chief Membership Officer at NCG. "Both of these co-ops worked diligently to meet the criteria to become NCG members, and we look forward to supporting them to continue their success."

NCG also welcomed Wasatch Food Co-op, Salt Lake City's first community-owned grocery store, in September 2025. The co-op, which has been in the planning stages since 2009, announced their official grand opening date of May 20, 2026, and currently has over 2,000 member-owners. Once opened, it will bring NCG's number of storefronts to 242.

About National Co+op Grocers

National Co+op Grocers (NCG), founded in 1999, is a business services cooperative for retail food co-ops located throughout the United States. NCG helps unify food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power and ultimately offer more value to natural food co-op owners and shoppers everywhere.

NCG's 169 community-owned food co-ops operate 241 stores in 40 states with combined annual sales of nearly $2.8 billion. NCG is a winner of the dotCoop Global Awards for Cooperative Excellence and a Certified B Corp. Learn more about NCG and find a map of member co-ops at grocery.coop.

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