Therefore, unless a buying club is incorporated as a co-op, it actually is a cooperatively organized group which operates in the spirit of cooperatives. All household orders from the buying club are combined. The group order is phoned, mailed, or sent by modem to Blooming Prairie. The buying club either picks up its order at Blooming Prairie, or meets our truck at a local distribution site. The order is paid for with a group check.
Members divide the group order into individual household orders.
Adjustments are made on household invoices. Members pay for their orders and take their food home. The distribution site and equipment are cleaned. Any final internal bookkeeping is completed. Blooming Prairie is contacted if any problems or complaints arise.