A Local MARKET WITH A BIG PURPOSE

Uniquely different by giving 100% of the sales proceeds back to emerging local foodmakers.

We are all about local foods and helping the small-batch food maker enter and thrive in the market place. Our experience is working with traditionally marginalized food makers, processors and women-owned food businesses.

At our core, we are a producer-led market with a unique grocery model that helps food startups and emerging food businesses to bring their finest products directly to consumers, while working to connect them to more retailers, and give them all proceeds from their food sales. We call this co-retail - an artisanal grocery model with potential to create efficiencies and equip small producers to scale.

In our store, shoppers will feel like they are at a farmer’s market, a foodie gift shop, and a small-scale but fully stocked grocery store all at once. What does that mean? It means that shoppers will find handcrafted, small-batch food items for gifts for any occasion; get to know the makers, and buy groceries and ingredients to make a full meal at home.

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OUR COMMUNITY

Dedicated People

Creative. Pioneering. Friendly. Our team is always ready to welcome you. Kayla Yang-Best, our Founder, created community retail (or co-retail) to elevate inclusion of all food businesses in local food systems, after spending several years back in 2014 as a food producer experiencing firsthand, a system with layers of gender and racial inequities. She was determined to bring change. Prior to that, Kayla spent 20+ years in corporate and private philanthropic leadership and community building.

"Do Good" First

Many of our products are made with love from makers of color and women-owned businesses. Since we opened in 2017, we have worked with numerous makers to advance them to more retailers and customers, while helping them retain all proceeds from their food sales. We call this co-retail, a new way of equipping small food businesses to scale.

More Than A Grocery Store

Here, we welcome all. We curate food products from different cultural communities from across MN and the US. Our goal is to ensure that all local, small-batch producers and their products get a chance to equitably compete in the market place.

With co-retail, we are the only grocery store of its kind. We aim to remove social, economic and racial barriers in the system. And we partner with individuals and not-for-profits to ensure food producers and their brands get the best possible opportunities.