City Market, Onion River Co-op
Greg Thoma has extensive experience in both mental health facilitation and the grocery industry. Since June 1999, Greg has served as an IDRP Facilitator and CRASH Facilitator at Howard Mental Health, focusing on helping individuals with DUI convictions develop behavioral change plans to reduce re-offending risks. Simultaneously, since 1999, Greg has worked at City Market as a Training Specialist, providing orientation and training for new grocery employees, and has taken on roles such as Shift Leader and Dry Goods Team Leader, managing inventory and motivating stock team members. Prior to these positions, Greg gained experience as a bartender at The Fox and Hounds from 1981 to 1994. Greg holds a Liberal Arts degree with a focus on Psychology from Wheeling University, attended from 1974 to 1978, and graduated from Gonzaga College High School in 1972.
City Market, Onion River Co-op
City Market, Onion River Co-op, is a community-owned food cooperative with two locations in beautiful Burlington, Vermont. We offer a large selection of local, organic and conventional foods, and thousands of Vermont-made products. Our Downtown and South End stores are open daily. City Market provides a critical service to the residents of Burlington and the larger community by providing local, organic, and conventional foods, as well as thousands of Vermont products, at a fair price to all. We also offer a hot and cold food bar, grab and go meals, coffee and tea, a made-to-order sandwich bar, and a deli. The Co-op is also dedicated to supporting the local economy and enhancing the sustainability of agriculture. We work with over 1,000 Vermont vendors to feature the widest selection of local products in the state. 73% of the vendors we do business with are located in Vermont and over 60 cents of every dollar in sales stays here in Vermont. We are Member-owned, so the profits generated by Co-op Members are returned to our Members (in profitable years) through our Patronage Refund program. Additionally, as a Co-op, we offer Members the opportunity to do Member Work in exchange for a discount. This Member Work is done with our non-profit community partners, providing them with much needed volunteer help. To learn more about our offerings, Membership, and our commitment to our local community, please visit our website at www.citymarket.coop. You can also follow us on Instagram at www.instagram.com/citymarketcoop, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/citymarketcoop, and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/CityMarket.