Owner Materials
Welcome New Owners!
As a new owner, we’d like to welcome you to Wild Root Market, a future food co-op to be located in Racine, Wisconsin. We believe that the cooperative business structure is the best and most effective way to meet Southeastern Wisconsin’s growing demand for locally owned, produced or grown consumer products as well as other environmentally responsible products and practices. We all own this business together, so your ideas and opinions are considered along with those of other Wild Root Market Owners.
New Owner Card
Your new owner card will be mailed to you. It will contain your name and owner number. After Wild Root Market opens, present your card to the cashier every time you check out to receive any special owner benefits that may be available and to track your purchases. This card is not transferable.
By-Laws
View Wild Root Market By-Laws here.
Spread the Word
Building our ownership base is the best and fastest way to ensure we open our doors as soon as possible. We ask each of our Owners to actively recruit more folks interested in shepherding Wild Root Market from vision to reality. Regardless of where the co-op will eventually be located, it will be good for the Racine/Kenosha communities and surrounding areas by providing jobs and fresh, healthy foods and products, many of them locally or regionally sourced.
How can you help?
1. Personally ask your family, friends, colleagues and those within your other circles to join. Remember that ownership can be paid in $50/quarter installments. A personal “ask” is sometimes all that’s needed. Let them know why you joined and why a fresh foods co-op is important to you.
2. Buy an owner share as a gift. What better way to show your love or appreciation than by giving the gift of a pathway to improved health and a stronger, more sustainable local food system?
3. Encourage your employer to buy owner shares as employee recognition gifts for service, performance or other acknowledgement milestones.
4. Invite Wild Root Market to come speak at a group function at your school, your community organization, your workplace, etc.
5. Offer to host a House Party. They’re easy. They’re fun. And we provide great resources for hosting, planning and executing your event.
