Isla Vista Food Co-op

The Isla Vista Food Co-op is Santa Barbara Countys only community-owned grocery store. The Co-op was founded over 40 years ago by students and Isla Vistans who wanted to ensure that the community would always have neighborhood access to high quality and affordable food, and that our local farmers and producers would have a dedicated store to sell to. The Co-op is open to the public and participates in many campus and community events to help share resources to make grocery shopping fun and affordable, and most importantly, to keep investing back into Isla Vista so that everyone can benefit from having a grocery store that everyone owns together. We currently run our grocery cooperative in a 3,200 square foot retail grocery space that we were able to purchase in 2013. We have over 30 paid staff, 15 of whom are full-time. Our current sales are about 3.7 million dollars per year. We are in process of building our management collective that will be overseen by the Board of Directo...