Cooperative Grocer Archives

The Cooperative Grocer Magazine archives are being made available through support of Columinate. For decades the Cooperative Grocers’ Network (CGN), formerly the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network (CGIN), published the premiere print magazine for co-op grocers in the US and Canada. In 2019 CGN went out of business and Columinate stepped in to support the online archives the entire 30-year history of Cooperative Grocer Magazine.

CGN provided many valuable resources for the cooperative grocer community and we have begun to try and fill the gap left by CGN’s closing. We now offer the Columinate Job Board, to replace the job board previously hosted at grocer.coop.

We are now proud to host a static version of the old CGN website which contains the entire history of Cooperative Grocer publications going back to 1985! Please feel free to search and browse the archives for a bit of inspiration, history, and cooperative spirit.