As Twin Cities Pride continues to fill the financial gap left by uninviting Target from its 2025 events, six Twin Cities co-ops are stepping up.
The co-ops — Eastside, Lakewinds, Mississippi Market, Seward, Valley Natural, and Wedge — have pledged a $28,700 donation to the Twin Cities Pride safety fund.
The co-ops announced the donation on social media, and confirmed to Bring Me The News that they’ll be delivering the donation this week.
“As community-owned cooperative grocers, we’ve always been spaces where every member of our vibrant neighborhoods can find a sense of belonging, friendship, safety, and, of course, delicious local food,” the co-ops wrote in a statement.
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Support your local co-ops! Glad to see they were able to step in and help.
Target c-suite can generally go eat a urinal cake. Not that I ever really shopped there anyway but after they caved to bigots they went up there with freddies/kroger and amazon on my shit list.
Also sorry for the rant in advance: I wish small grocers were more fairly prioritized in general. Here in Portland we do have a few and I’m lucky enough to be kind of near one, but some areas are completely out of luck. Even the ones we do have tend to cut a fine line on prices due to how crazy jacked up properly values and rents are. Trash single fam and large business zoning rules are really blocking a lot of progress.
I love Mississippi Market. A great place and I feel good about their donation systems. More expensive for some things but totally worth it overall
Fuck yeah! Thanks for sharing this with us, Alyaza. It’s nice to see some pleasant news.
Womp womp, Target.
