worker cooperative grocer
Rainbow Grocery Cooperative
Industry Food
A worker cooperative grocery selling vegetarian food and household goods, with democratic workplace control, sourcing standards, and local retail durability. Rainbow Grocery Cooperative 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: Worker cooperative grocery models broaden the top-end comparison set.
Letter grade A Good High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
Final Score
59* A - Good
A* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
Vegetarian badge
The current public description presents this as vegetarian. The badge is informational; it does not erase labor, ownership, toxicity, price, or governance concerns.
Evidence: [11]
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Evaluation Overview
A - Good
The score turns mainly on Ownership, with the largest penalty coming from Toxic Products.
Strengths
- Ownership10/10
- Governance9/10
- Extraction8/10
Penalties
- Toxic Products-1
Evidence state
- ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessPartial (AI)
- Linked claims10
- Direct axis claims10
- Coverage10/10
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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10 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Rainbow Grocery as a worker-owned cooperative. Linked evidence
|
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
|
9 / 10 |
Rainbow Grocery's worker-owned cooperative identity supports democratic workplace governance rather than external investor control. |
Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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8 / 10 |
The linked record identifies Rainbow Grocery as a worker-owned cooperative. |
Labor Sovereignty
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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 Rainbow Grocery as a worker-owned cooperative. |
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
|
6 / 7 |
The linked record identifies Rainbow Grocery as a worker-owned cooperative. |
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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6 / 7 |
The linked record identifies Rainbow Grocery as a worker-owned cooperative. |
Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
|
4 / 5 |
Rainbow Grocery presents vegetarian grocery retail and community-oriented sourcing as core features. |
Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Rainbow Grocery presents vegetarian grocery retail and community-oriented sourcing as core features. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
Rainbow Grocery presents vegetarian grocery retail and community-oriented sourcing as core features. |
Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
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.
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-1 |
Rainbow Grocery Cooperative currently operates a grocery retail channel where toxic-product screening includes pesticides and other high-risk food-system categories; the product category… Linked evidence
|
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 82/100
10 verified linked claims 10 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 10/10 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 17/20
10 verified linked claims
Source quality 13/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
10 direct claims across 10 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
10/10 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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factual errors, missing counterevidence, source problems, or calculation
mistakes.
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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.1Rainbow Grocery describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative.
- Rainbow Grocery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
2Rainbow Grocery's worker-owned cooperative identity supports democratic workplace governance rather than external investor control.
- Rainbow Grocery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
3Rainbow Grocery describes itself as a worker-owned cooperative grocery, routing ownership and operational control toward worker-members rather than outside investors.
- Rainbow Grocery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
4Rainbow Grocery's worker-owned cooperative structure gives grocery workers a direct ownership stake in a sector often governed by conventional retail management.
- Rainbow Grocery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
5Rainbow Grocery presents a community-oriented vegetarian grocery model, while the reviewed public record does not show broad employment-access protections for people outside the cooperative.
- Rainbow GroceryGeneral web source · 58%
- Rainbow Grocery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
6Rainbow Grocery combines worker ownership with grocery retail, making store decisions closer to workers but still leaving supplier and agricultural risks partly outside the cooperative.
- Rainbow Grocery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
- Rainbow GroceryGeneral web source · 58%
7Rainbow Grocery presents vegetarian grocery retail and community-oriented sourcing as core features.
- Rainbow Grocery homepageGeneral web source · 58%
8Rainbow Grocery sells vegetarian groceries and household goods through a worker cooperative retail model rather than a shareholder grocery chain.
- Rainbow GroceryGeneral web source · 58%
- Rainbow Grocery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
9Rainbow Grocery operates as a durable worker-owned grocery cooperative without scaling through conventional chain ownership.
- Rainbow Grocery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
10Rainbow Grocery Cooperative 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.
- Rainbow Grocery aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
- EPA: human health issues related to pesticidesPrimary public record · 100%
- CDC: Sugar-sweetened beverages and healthPrimary public record · 100%
11Rainbow Grocery Cooperative is described in the current profile as vegetarian or plant-forward: A worker cooperative grocery selling vegetarian food and household goods, with democratic workplace control, sourcing standards, and local retail durability. Rainbow Grocery Cooperative scores well because ownership is…
- Rainbow Grocery Cooperative public siteGeneral web source · 58%
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Audit Log
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Added tentative AI-generated Toxic Products penalty -1 and directory value for current toxic, addictive, pesticide, livestock, chemical, or consumer-safety product exposure.
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