Marketplace Co-op

Marketplace Co-op - a cooperative (co-op) buying club
serving families, individuals and small businesses in the Metro Nashville area


Home Directions UNFI Frontier Resources & Links

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We encourage everyone to support local farms and locally owned businesses.
Please see our resources & links page 

Our next delivery is Thursday June 17, 2010 with a noon - 2 pm time slot

Remaining 2010 UNFI delivery days are July 15, August 12, Sept 09, Oct 07, Nov 04, Dec 02 & Dec 30. (We may be moving to Saturday deliveries in the near future.)
at
Second Presbyterian Church,
3511 Belmont Blvd. Nashville, TN 37215

(Enter around back, at the corner of Richards and Graybar)

Our  new time slot is ~ noon - 2 pm (central)

First step is to join our general discussion email list: http://groups.google.com/group/marketplace-co-op

If you are interested in ordering from UNFI  you will need to join this email list: http://groups.google.com/group/mp_unfi

 If you are interested in ordering from Frontier you will need to join this email list: http://groups.google.com/group/mp_frontier

 If you are interested in ordering from Kenny?s Farmhouse Cheese you will need to join this email list:
http://groups.google.com/group/mp-kennycheese

We are always interested in adding new vendors / distributors especially vendors of locally produced / grown products.


Generally, we ask new folks to watch the UNFI and Frontier ordering process via email  for a month and participate in one entire UNFI delivery before ordering with us. This gives you a chance to see our process in action so you can decide if our co-op fits with your family's needs, lifestyle and time commitments. You must be able to be very flexible regarding the UNFI delivery time as any number of variables can impact the ETA of the truck. Delivery times & updates are announced on our email list as soon as we receive an ETA or update from the UNFI warehouse in Atlanta. The delivery & distribution process takes approximately 1.5 to 2 hours.  Each household placing an order is expected to provide at least one person to work the delivery. Delivery workers are expected to arrive 15 - 30 minutes before the truck's ETA, work unloading and distribution, pitch in where needed, verify the pick sheets of workers involved in weighing and check-out, help clean up the area. Check-out does not start until all items have been distributed.

Our core group is primarily homeschool moms  --- we understand ?children in tow?.  Our current location - the Fellowship Caf? at 2 Presb gives us provides options for non-working kids while still be able to offer meaningful tasks for the kids who want to be part of the process.

 

We strive to be flexible and compassionate regarding this process, in particular, working the UNFI delivery. When we have enough folks ordering on a regular basis we should be able to rotate working the delivery. We really are not rigid in the areas that we have control over. We do not have control over delivery date and time nor road conditions that make impact the initial ETA of the UNFI truck. Otherwise, we are open to suggestions on how to serve as many people as possible without over-burdening the core of the group.

You may order 3 times before you are required to join & pay the joining fee of $25.

New folks may be required to submit payment the week before delivery for their first few orders otherwise payment is due at delivery.

Co-op Membership is per household. Members may not order for non-members. In keeping with the our mission to ensure that we share  the workload  & expenses equitably we ask co-op members to order for their immediate household only.  We do allow members to add subaccounts and order items for their parents (if they are physically unable to work the delivery) and young adult children (who may have just recently fledged the nest so to speak.)

We don't have fresh produce but have about the same grocery items as Wild Oats/Whole Foods.

And no, we have not forgotten to include our phone number on this website. We are not a business -- we are a cooperative buying club. We don't have a business phone line. We don't have employees paid to answer the phone. Our buying club runs on volunteer labor -- unpaid volunteer labor. Please feel free to contact us via  email  thanks!

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