{"id":10972,"date":"2025-08-18T01:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=10972"},"modified":"2025-08-18T01:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:55:17","slug":"scenes-from-rainbow-grocery-co-ops-50th-anniversary-block-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/local\/scenes-from-rainbow-grocery-co-ops-50th-anniversary-block-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from Rainbow Grocery Co-op’s 50th anniversary block party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Started in 1975 as an offshoot of a “food conspiracy,”<\/a> San Francisco’s preeminent worker-owned vegetarian grocery store began at a small storefront on 16th Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After several moves — the original store is now the home of German beer bar Gestalt — Rainbow acquired their Folsom Street location in the 90’s and has been selling organic foods there ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, Rainbow Grocery celebrated its 50th anniversary with a block party<\/a> highlighting like-minded local purveyors of food, music, skin care, and other products and services. There was even a dog rescue charity, which was a big hit with the younger crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While America’s food landscape may be dominated by giant corporations, it’s great to see that worker owned co-ops can still be a viable alternative. Not only that, but one that has a community built around it; a community big enough to wolf down most of the free samples before I made it out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy birthday, Rainbow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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