After years of private ownership, Tom’s Market in Yellow Springs could become a co-op grocery store.
That means community members would cooperatively own the local grocery store. It would operate with community input and focus on locally sourced goods.
According to the Cherrelle Gardner, executive director of Co-op Dayton, this move was prompted by the owner, Jeff Gray, looking at stepping away from ownership of the store. Gray’s family has operated the store on Xenia Avenue since 2001…