Other Avenues

worker cooperative grocer

Other Avenues

Industry Food

A worker cooperative grocery selling natural foods and household staples, with democratic worker control and neighborhood-scale retail service. Other Avenues scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and governance has stronger accountability than peers, though toxic or materially harmful products still limit the evaluation.

Why this matters: Small worker co-ops show how structure works outside large firms.

Letter grade A Good High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1

Final Score 57* A - Good
AGOOD57 tentative score pts

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.

Base Material60
Bonus+0
Cap66No structure cap
After Cap60
Penalties-3
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Evaluation Overview

A - Good

The score turns mainly on Ownership, with the largest penalty coming from High-Carbon Products.

Strengths

  • Ownership10/10
  • Governance9/10
  • Extraction8/10

Penalties

  • High-Carbon Products-2
  • Toxic Products-1

Evidence state

  • ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
  • ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
  • Linked claims11
  • Direct axis claims11
  • Coverage11/11

Scoring Axes
Axis Score Why this score
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control at 10.
10 / 10

The linked record identifies Other Avenues as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 207 scored entries below, 19 tied, 0 above on Ownership.

Linked evidence
  • Other Avenues describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store. [1]
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic stakeholder control at 10.
9 / 10

The linked record identifies Other Avenues as a worker-owned cooperative grocery, supporting direct worker governance of the retail enterprise.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 207 scored entries below, 17 tied, 2 above on Governance.

Linked evidence
  • context Other Avenues describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store. [1]
  • Other Avenues describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery, supporting direct worker governance of the retail enterprise. [2]
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured extraction judgment.
8 / 10

The linked record identifies Other Avenues as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 173 scored entries below, 34 tied, 19 above on Extraction.

Linked evidence
  • context Other Avenues describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store. [1]
  • Other Avenues says it incorporated as a worker-owned cooperative in 1999 and that only workers are members. [3]
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at 7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling, retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of worker voice, or extreme turnover.
7 / 7

The linked record identifies Other Avenues as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 205 scored entries below, 21 tied, 0 above on Labor Sovereignty.

Linked evidence
  • context Other Avenues describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store. [1]
  • Other Avenues states that it is worker owned and that only its workers are members, giving grocery workers a direct membership claim. [4]
Solidarity with the Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment, and non-competes.
6 / 7

The linked record identifies Other Avenues as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 197 scored entries below, 22 tied, 7 above on Solidarity with the Unemployed.

Linked evidence
  • context Other Avenues describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store. [1]
  • Other Avenues traces its roots to Food Conspiracy food-buying clubs and community food distribution, while current membership is limited to workers. [5]
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and public obligations.
6 / 7

The linked record identifies Other Avenues as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 163 scored entries below, 54 tied, 9 above on Loss-Bearing Fidelity.

Linked evidence
  • context Other Avenues describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store. [1]
  • Other Avenues' worker-only cooperative membership keeps store risk and benefit closer to the workers operating the grocery. [6]
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
4 / 5

Other Avenues emphasizes natural foods, local products, and community-oriented grocery retail.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 106 scored entries below, 73 tied, 47 above on Market Conduct.

Linked evidence
  • context Other Avenues emphasizes natural foods, local products, and community-oriented grocery retail. [7]
  • Other Avenues operates as an organic worker cooperative grocery rather than a conventional shareholder grocery store. [8]
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
5 / 5

Other Avenues emphasizes natural foods, local products, and community-oriented grocery retail.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 134 scored entries below, 92 tied, 0 above on Product Integrity.

Linked evidence
  • Other Avenues emphasizes natural foods, local products, and community-oriented grocery retail. [7]
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
5 / 5

Other Avenues emphasizes natural foods, local products, and community-oriented grocery retail.

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 191 scored entries below, 35 tied, 0 above on Scale Integrity.

Linked evidence
  • context Other Avenues emphasizes natural foods, local products, and community-oriented grocery retail. [7]
  • Other Avenues has operated from food-buying-club origins into a long-running worker-owned grocery without converting into a conventional chain. [9]

Penalties
Penalty Applied Why this penalty
High-Carbon Products
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Core products, services, financing, or supply chains that materially depend on fossil-fuel combustion, high-emissions transport, industrial animal agriculture, meat, dairy, or other unusually carbon-intensive activity. This is scored separately from general ecological harm so ordinary consumers can see carbon-intensive product exposure directly. Range: -10 to 0.
-2

The company sells mixed grocery, restaurant, or packaged-food products where meat, dairy, refrigerated logistics, or high-carbon ingredients are material but not necessarily the entire business model.

Linked evidence
  • Other Avenues has mixed food exposure high-carbon product exposure based on its listed business model and current profile description: A worker cooperative grocery selling natural foods and household staples, with democratic worker control and neighborhood-scale retail service. Other Avenues scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and go… [11]
Toxic Products
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Current sale of products whose ordinary use, exposure, ingredients, residues, packaging, or formulation creates toxic, addictive, or consumer-safety risk. Food products receive at least light scrutiny for artificial colors, artificial flavors, petro-derived additives, pesticide residues, contaminants, endocrine-disrupting packaging, and ultra-processed formulation. Ordinary adult nightlife or alcohol service is not penalized by itself without evidence of predatory marketing, youth targeting, addiction-extractive design, or unusual product-safety misconduct. Range: -5 to 0.
-1

Other Avenues currently operates a grocery retail channel where toxic-product screening includes pesticides and other high-risk food-system categories; the product category creates ordinary…

Calibration notes

Comparative anchor: Column-spectrum position: 24 scored entries below, 14 tied, 188 above on Toxic Products.

Linked evidence
  • Other Avenues currently operates a grocery retail channel where toxic-product screening includes pesticides and other high-risk food-system categories; the product category creates ordinary toxic, addictive, or consumer-safety exposure under the directory's toxic-products screen. [10]

Bonus Credits

No bonus credits applied in this version.

Confidence Basis

Confidence Basis

Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.

High 81/100

11 verified linked claims 11 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 11/11 components covered

This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.

Claim confidence 17/20

11 verified linked claims

Source quality 11/18

Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability

Direct axis-specific claims 14/18

11 direct claims across 11 active components

Dispute load 12/12

0 disputed claims on this entity

Recency 10/10

Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026

Reviewer status 7/12

Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding

Component coverage 10/10

11/11 evidence-bearing components have direct support

Evidence State

Evidence State

Profile stateAI draft / human-pending
VerificationUnverified
ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
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Claims and Sources

Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.

* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
1Other Avenues describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery store.

Ownership Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

2Other Avenues describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery, supporting direct worker governance of the retail enterprise.

Governance Verified High confidence Human-reviewed

3Other Avenues says it incorporated as a worker-owned cooperative in 1999 and that only workers are members.

Extraction Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

4Other Avenues states that it is worker owned and that only its workers are members, giving grocery workers a direct membership claim.

Labor Sovereignty Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

5Other Avenues traces its roots to Food Conspiracy food-buying clubs and community food distribution, while current membership is limited to workers.

Solidarity Unemployed Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

6Other Avenues' worker-only cooperative membership keeps store risk and benefit closer to the workers operating the grocery.

Loss Bearing Fidelity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

7Other Avenues emphasizes natural foods, local products, and community-oriented grocery retail.

Product Integrity Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

8Other Avenues operates as an organic worker cooperative grocery rather than a conventional shareholder grocery store.

Market Conduct Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

9Other Avenues has operated from food-buying-club origins into a long-running worker-owned grocery without converting into a conventional chain.

Scale Integrity Verified High confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

10Other Avenues currently operates a grocery retail channel where toxic-product screening includes pesticides and other high-risk food-system categories; the product category creates ordinary toxic, addictive, or consumer-safety exposure under the directory's toxic-products screen.

Toxic Products Verified Medium confidence AI-generated / human-pending

AI scaffold

11Other Avenues has mixed food exposure high-carbon product exposure based on its listed business model and current profile description: A worker cooperative grocery selling natural foods and household staples, with democratic worker control and neighborhood-scale retail service. Other Avenues scores well because ownership is comparatively aligned and go…

High Carbon Products Verified Medium confidence Human-reviewed

Alternatives

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Competitors

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