Welcome to Golden Mercantile Co-op
All Roads Lead to Local
Welcome to Golden Mercantile Co-op
All Roads Lead to Local
About Us
All Roads Lead to Local
The Golden Mercantile Cooperative is a membership-based flex retail space composed of Colorado-based small businesses, artists, craftspeople and food producers. Our unique, historic storefront on Washington Avenue, in the heart of downtown Golden, is a place for community. We bring local small businesses together with a loyal small-town customer-base, the students, faculty, and staff of a world-renowned university, and tourists from all over Colorado and the world. Being local isn’t just about an address, it’s an attitude. No matter which road you took to get to Golden, you’ll feel like a local at the Co-op.
Our Location
We are located in the heart of historic downtown Golden, Colorado at 1208 Washington Avenue, in the Harrison Block building. Our retail space has been lovingly renovated, with attention to preservation, and designed with unique details that showcase the history of the building. We are adjacent to Del’s Tonsorial, the oldest barber shop in the West! Free 2-hour parking is available in the City-owned lot directly behind our location; we have a backdoor easily accessed from the lot.
About Us
Our Story
Hi! We are Tina and Blake Mayberry, creators and owners of the Golden Mercantile Cooperative. It sounds trite, and perhaps is, but in this case it is the truth - it all started with a dream. During the dark winter of 2020, we both awoke one day and shared a mutual night-time experience - we owned a grocery store! It had always been a dream of ours to bring local food, arts, and crafts to our community. And we’d experimented over the years in a bunch of different forms - helping to create a farmer’s market in our hometown of Glenwood, IA. More recently, we bought an acreage in Golden where we’ve experimented with urban farming and sustainable living. But we are both educators at heart, and professionally - Blake a college professor, and Tina, up until recently, a public school teacher. After being cooped up in our homes during the pandemic, teaching remotely, connecting with our community through screens, we think that fate sent us those dreams as premonitions. Our dream is to help reconnect community, to bring people together in a beautiful physical space, in the heart of a vibrant small-town.
Our Approach
We strive to create authentic experiences, and make real connections with people - come down to the store and check it out for yourself, meet our merchants, meet people in your community, and all kinds of interesting folks from all corners of the globe. But we are not an online store, and we don’t spend a lot of time on social media. We are busy meeting people, face-to-face, and building relationships that create sustainable communities. We are old-fashioned AF, and that is not a hashtag, it’s a way of life. A smile, a handshake, knowing our customers by first name - that’s what we are trying to build. If you are tired of having followers, or being followed all the time, come to the Co-op for something real.
Come on Down!
Golden Mercantile Co-Op
Hours
Open today | 10:00 am – 05:00 pm |
Monday - Thursday: 10am - 5pm
Friday - Sunday: 10am - 6PM
Events
09/17/2022
Live Author Reading with Sue Hinkin
6:30
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8:00PM
1208 Washington Ave.
Event Details
09/17/2022
Live Author Reading with Sue Hinkin
Denver-based author Sue Hinkin will read from her July 2022 new release book, The RX for Murder. With storytelling live Q&A, giveaways and a...
6:30
-
8:00PM
1208 Washington Ave.
Your membership at the Co-op:
SUPPORTS SMALL BUSINESS
Nearly 30 Colorado-based businesses are members of the Co-op. These are folks who live in your community, your neighbors, and likely your friends. Supporting the Co-op with membership helps these businesses by reducing costs for access to the market. We use membership dues to keep costs down for our merchants.
SUPPORTS SUSTAINABILITY
Supply chains issues have recently highlighted the importance of supporting local food producers and manufacturers. Your membership to the Co-op is a commitment to support those local producers, and a hedge against the uncertainties of the global economy. Strong local economies, where money recirculates through the community, are sustainable communities.
BUILDS COMMUNITY
Studies show that “being a local” adds years to your life. For real, look it up yourself. Becoming a member of the Co-op means that we’ll get to know you on a first name basis (membership comes with a cool laminated card that you get your write your name on; big perk!), and you’ll feel like a local. Whether you are new to town, or been here since the Buffalo Bill days, become a member a join our community!
WHAT YOU’LL GET
- 10% Discount at the register
- Access to Co-op Email Newsletter; learn about our merchants and goings-on at the Co-op
- A cool laminated membership card with YOUR name on it!
- Branded Co-op swag!
- Members-only specials!
- Much, much more to come...
Frequently Asked Questions
Please reach us at info@goldenmercantilecoop.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
$150/year
$100/year for students, vets/active-duty, teachers, law enforcement or fire fighter
Gotta come down to the store to sign up. You know how you can get everything online now, delivered to your door? Well, not this. If you find that refreshing, we’d love to see you too!
At the store. Noticing a theme yet?
If you quality for assistance for rent or food, membership is free.
What a kind gesture, of course you can! Memberships make a great gift, for students, friends, neighbors. And it would pair well with a gift card to get them started ; )
People ask us that all the time! Of course, you can do that too.
Your dues are a revenue stream for the Co-op that helps us pay for staff. Each of our merchants pays membership dues to be in the store. Pooling resources together in this way helps offset rising labor and rent costs. Your membership doesn’t go to some CEO relaxing on a private island - it goes to helping support nearly 30 small businesses, their families, and employees.
That's not really a question, but we appreciate you. Come down to the store and show us some samples of your products, and we can give you more info about Merchant Membership.
Contact Us
Golden Mercantile Cooperative
1208 Washington Avenue, Golden, Colorado 80401
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