{"id":2579,"date":"2025-10-15T21:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2579\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:46:06","slug":"south-philly-food-co-op-is-owned-by-the-community-for-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2579\/","title":{"rendered":"South Philly Food Co-op is owned by the community, for the community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">SOUTH PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; To serve the South Philadelphia community, this local grocery store is walkable, and owned by the people who make the neighborhood special.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;South Philly Food Co-op&#8221; was the project that took a decade to get off the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ever since opening in 2020, they have provided a space where the neighbors of the community can provide a fresh food resource.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Part of their motto is &#8220;using food as a force for good,&#8221; which they put on display in initiatives such as their October Equity Drive, helping people become members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Becoming a member allows them to have a voice in their community grocery store to further improve its operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Its ownership by local neighborhood members is hyper focused on caring for the community that they know so well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">For more information, check out the video above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Also, check out their <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southphillyfood.coop\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; To serve the South Philadelphia community, this local grocery store is walkable, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2308,524,2307,1515,1724,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-2579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-2308","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-equity","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-grocery-store","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}