Golden Mercantile Cooperative
All Roads Lead to Local
Golden Mercantile Cooperative
All Roads Lead to Local
Who We Are
All Roads Lead to Local
The GMC curates locally-made, sustainably produced goods from around the USA! The small business owners featured are researched for their goals, commitment to sustainability, and how they contribute to their community. Our team thinks outside of the box to market them, educate our customers of their practices and who they are as small business owners! Hopefully our mission to support our fellow makers, crafters, and creators inspires you to support a local artist, crafter, creator, or maker within our country and maybe within your own community, down the street! Remember no matter what road you take, they all lead to someone local. We can help you find them!
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About Us
Our Story
Hi! We are Tina and Blake Mayberry, creators and owners of the Golden Mercantile Coop. It sounds trite, and perhaps is, but in this case it is the truth - it all started with a dream. Our dream is to bring local food, arts, and crafts to local communities. We 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 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 people in your community, and all kinds of interesting folks from all corners of the globe.
More importantly, 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, finding the perfect lighting for your Instagram post, come to the Co-op for something real.
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
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8:00PM
1208 Washington Ave.
10/31/2022
Trick or Treat Street
3:00 PM
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4:30 PM
1208 Washington Ave.
Event Details
10/31/2022
Trick or Treat Street
We hope to see you, friends & family at the downtown Trick or Treat event sponsored by the City of Golden, CO for some holiday spirit.
Enter...
3:00 PM
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4:30 PM
1208 Washington Ave.
11/242022
The Great Turkey Chase
3:00 PM
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4:30 PM
1208 Washington Ave.
Event Details
11/242022
The Great Turkey Chase
Dress up in your best turkey outfit and head on down to Parfet Park for a fun run. After the event make sure to stop by the GMC to say hello...
3:00 PM
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4:30 PM
1208 Washington Ave.
12/02/2022
Olde Golden Candlelight Walk
6:30 PM
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7:30 PM
1208 Washington Ave.
Event Details
12/02/2022
Olde Golden Candlelight Walk
Make sure to get a hot cup of coffee, cocoa, chai, or tea before storilling up to 15th and Washington with your candle in hand. This lovely ...
6:30 PM
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7:30 PM
1208 Washington Ave.
12/10/2022
Olde Golden Holiday Parade
10:30 AM
1208 Washington Ave.
Event Details
12/10/2022
Olde Golden Holiday Parade
The parade is an incredible display of the holiday spirit. Stop by the GMC for unique items for your family and loved ones this holiday seas...
10:30 AM
1208 Washington Ave.
More Events
Support Your Local Cooperative
The reality of it all!
By investing in a community membership you are helping to build a revenue stream for the Coop which helps to pool resources together. In this way, offsetting rising labor and retail rent costs in downtown Golden, CO is essential for small mom and pop shops like ours.
Food for thought...your membership doesn’t go to some CEO relaxing on a private island or some trust fund family - it supports our local small business and our employees.
SUPPORTS SUSTAINABILITY
Supply chain 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
- A cool laminated membership card with YOUR name on it
- Members-only specials!
- Much, much more to come...
Frequently Asked Questions
Please reach us at tina@goldenmercantilecoop.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.
$175 a year
$100 a year for a Heroes Discount (Military, First Responders, Nurses, Teachers). We love and admire your work. We see your dedication to making our community a better place.
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.
That's not really a question, but we appreciate you. Please email tina@goldenmercantilecoop.com.
Come on Down for a visit!
All Roads Lead to Local
GMC Store Hours
Open today | 10:00 am – 06:00 pm |
Sunday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Monday - Thursday: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday - Saturday 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Contact Us
Golden Mercantile Cooperative
1208 Washington Avenue, Golden, Colorado 80401
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