Their Business Is Growing

Food Co-Op Hitting Its Stride

Posted: June 8, 2012

By CANDACE SIPOS

Cashier Rob Villa serves customer and co-op member Ethan Zook at the Friendly City Food Co-op on Thursday. The store has more than 1,400 members who invested $200 apiece in the Harrisonburg startup. (Photos by Justin Falls / DN-R)
Customers enjoy the atmosphere outside the Friendly City Food Co-op on Thursday.
Bulk grain dispensers line the back wall of the Friendly City Food Co-op. The store aims to stock 25 to 30 percent locally grown food.
The Friendly City Food Co-op occupies more than 6,000 square feet of space at the site of the old Mick-or-Mack store.

HARRISONBURG — After almost five years of planning, fundraising and false starts, the Friendly City Food Co-op finally served its first customer a year ago Wednesday.

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