Weavers way next door
Eat these quick!
1lb of organic strawberries, now $5.99 each, the next best addition to your dessert.
Roast 'em!
There are a million ways to enjoy cauliflower; give it a try this week! Cauliflower is now on sale for $2.99 each.
Time for Guac!
Stock up on avocados, on sale for 4 for $5.
Feature from Weavers Way Farm
It's pawpaw season!! Weavers Way Farms pawpaws are now in store for $8.99 lb.
Fresh from our Kitchens!
Uncomplicate your dinner and pick up our Roasted Leidy's Pork Loin with Mashed Potatoes, Asparagus, and Applesauce for $2 off!
Fresh from our Kitchens!
Fresh and ready for you for $2 off, our assorted salmon
Fresh from our Kitchens!
Fresh and ready for you for $2 off, our assorted tofu meals!
New Product Alert!
Spice up your dinner with Ya Oaxaca! New to the co-op and $1 off their Enchilada, Rojo, and Negro mole!
New Product Alert!
Dumpling Daughter offers next-level frozen dumplings, scallion pancakes, and sauces! Try any of their products and get 15% off!
Dinner Made Easy!
Fresh flavors and finished in seconds! Taylor Farms assorted chopped salad kits are now $1 off!
Fresh from our Butch
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Nine years ago, something new came to Chestnut Hill, and it's much more than a store. At Weavers Way, you can buy anything from produce to prepared food to gifts and soaps.
But this is not a traditional grocery store. Weavers Way is a cooperative, or co-op for short.
As store manager Dean Stefano explains, "A co-op is basically a member-owned business. "
Weavers Way Co-op started in the '70s in nearby Mount Airy. Members agreed to invest a little money and some labor and got fresh produce in return. Over the years, it grew to more than 3,600 members.
Then Weavers Way took a chance on Chestnut Hill. They bought and renovated the old Caruso's Market building on Germantown Avenue, raised $700,000 in loans, and opened in May 2009 in the heart of Chestnut Hill.
Jackie Lawrence, of East Mount Airy said, "When Caruso's was here, I used to go here, but when Weavers Way came, it made it even better for me."
Weavers Way also opened a wellness store next door. It's now Weavers Way's fastest growing section, said manager Chris Mallam, who oversees the store's products:
"Soaps, lotions, oils, candles, cards, gifts, as well as our herbal extracts and other nut
Hill Weavers Way opens 'Next Door'
by Sue Ann Rybak
Weavers Way Co-op opened its new wellness and beauty store at 8426 Germantown Ave. on Monday, Oct. 21. The store, called “Next Door,” is adjacent to the co-op’s Chestnut Hill location and is the former site of the Chestnut Hill Welcome Center.
Rebecca Torpie, Weavers Way’s marketing manager, said the decision to open the new health and wellness store was due in part to the success of Weavers Way's “Across the Way” at its Mt. Airy location.
Torpie said the 16 feet of wellness products that the Chestnut Hill store carried were selling really well.
“We realized there was a dearth of health and beauty shops in the area,” Torpie said.
She said the additional 950-square-foot-space, located directly next to the co-op's grocery store, was “the perfect size” to add a variety of local health and beauty products to their Chestnut Hill market.
“One of our top priorities for Next Door was finding and making local wellness and beauty purveyors visible and celebrated,” T
Weavers Way co-op celebrates 50 years
by Len Lear
It was during the summer and fall of 1972 that several West Mt. Airy residents who were dissatisfied with the quality and prices of food in area supermarkets, particularly regarding produce, started a food-buying group operated out of the basement of Summit Presbyterian Church at Westview and Greene streets.
Periodically, a member would go down to the Food Distribution Center in South Philadelphia to obtain food at a reduced rate and bring it back for the members. But then one member, Jules Timerman, had a more ambitious idea. He was convinced that Mt. Airy residents would support a full-fledged cooperative market, owned and run by the members.
He turned out to be right. And this year, the Weavers Way food cooperative is celebrating its 50th year of doing business.
And that business is thriving. Weavers Way now has three stores, 25,000 members from 11,000 households, and a growth rate that nets about 50 new members each month.
All of them have a vested interest in the well-being of the store they belong to, and most also value the sense of community that comes with that. Part of the co-op’s missio
Everything You Need to Know About Weavers Way Co-op in Chestnut Hill
I’ve always had a soft spot for small towns with streets lined with mom and pop shops, novelty stores and quaint little bakeries. I grew up visiting boroughs like Media and West Chester and have fond memories of freshly baked croissants and little Irish knickknacks that would adorn my dresser as a little girl. Now, the older I get, the more I’ve come to appreciate these smaller communities and the efforts that go into keeping them in tip-top shape. It takes a certain kind of willingness to keep these small towns alive and well when so much orbits around the corporate world. One piece of that small-town puzzle is making some big strides to ensure that the Chestnut Hill community will continue to thrive down the road.
My mission was to find out more about Weavers Way Co-op—how it differs from your average grocery store, what they’re doing within Chestnut Hill to better the community and how locals could benefit from joining their growing membership. I sat down with Dean Stefano and Rebecca Torpie, the Store Manager and Marketing Director, respectively, and got so much more than I anticipated. I knew this