What is CAP?
The Cooperative Advantage Program
Ever wondered what CAP is? It stands for the Cooperative Advantage Program. Okay, you say. So what does that mean? One day, a smart bunch of people decided that if cooperatives all got together, they could have strength in numbers and compete with their big-box competition, and that simple idea started a cooperative buying-power revolution.
In a nutshell, huge retailers typically have buying power that small cooperatives do not. A big-box retailer can order a large amount of products from its distributors, for example — enough to cover all of the company’s retail locations nationwide. And as a result, the retailer can lobby for the lowest price possible. A tiny cooperative in a small town somewhere doesn’t have that luxury. Through CAP, cooperatives across the country have pooled their resources for buying power, and now can pass the savings on to you.
