Enhance your Co-op Membership—
Volunteer at the Davis Food Co-op!

Discounts for working members
Co-op members ages eighteen and over can choose to volunteer in the store they own. Working member households receive a five percent discount on their Co-op purchases for each month that they work (as compared to all other “active” members, who pay the shelf price).

If yours is a household of one or two adults, you would be required to volunteer two hours each month to receive your working members' discount. Larger households volunteer additional hours each month to receive their discount.

A member who can regularly volunteer on a weekly schedule may enhance their membership benefits by participating in our Superwork program. Most Superworkers spend four hours per week (depending on household size) in a variety of skilled and very-skilled tasks. Superwork households earn a sixteen and a half percent discount.

Some members volunteer in the office, others stock groceries on shelves in the mornings, still others may help prepare recipes for the Bakery. We do restrict some members (e.g. former employees cannot move directly from paid work to the same tasks as a volunteer), and we reserve the right to decline the services of volunteer members, based on past shopping, volunteer, or employment performance. We try to make reasonable accomodation for a wide range of abilities—please for more information.

If you are interested in becoming a working member, we ask that you attend a New Member Orientation.