Burnt Cove Market Opened: 1971 Owner: employee owned Previous Tenants: none Cooperative: none Location: 1 S Burnt Cove Rd, Stonington, ME Photographed: June 14, 2022 I talk a lot about cooperatives here on The Market Report, and generally I'm referring to what's more accurately called retailers' cooperatives, groups of independent grocery store owners that share resources like warehouses, distribution contracts, marketing, and brand names (think Wakefern or Key Food ). Lately, we've also been seeing more stores that are community cooperatives , or grocery stores that the general public can buy an ownership stake in. There's still a third type of grocery cooperative, although it's one that doesn't generally get a lot of attention: employee cooperatives, where the people who work in the store also own a small share of the store itself. (This is similar to employee-owned supermarkets, though in some cases the employees don't own the full company -- s...