Rising Tide Co-op Opened: 2009 in current location; 1978 previously Owner: cooperatively owned Previous Tenants: assorted non-grocery tenants Cooperative: National Co-op Grocers Location: 323 Main St, Damariscotta, ME Photographed: August 16, 2019 Damariscotta is a very small town of about 2200 people about halfway between Portland and Bangor, but even this tiny town has three full supermarkets. The local independent store is Main Street Grocery , and directly across the street from it is the Rising Tide Co-op. A Hannaford is just down the street, and we'll see that Monday. Although Rising Tide has been in business since 1978, the co-op moved into this building -- formerly a motorcycle dealership! -- in 2009. You can see in the exterior picture at the beginning of this post that it truly is directly across the street from Main Street Grocery. But the stores are very different. In New England, there's a very strong culture of community co-op grocers, a...