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How do I become a member?
You may join in the store or mail in your application and fees. Ask any cashier about becoming a member of Connections Local Foods Market. If you'd like to know more about how a membership in Connections Local Foods Market can benefit you... keep scrolling down!
If you're ready to join, please begin by reviewing the cost of a Connections membership, and read the Connections Local Foods Market Membership Agreement.
Connections Local Foods Market
Benefits of Membership
You will find competitive
prices at Connections Local Foods Market,
along with several programs designed to help you save even more!
Benefits
of Membership
Anyone
can shop at Connections Local Foods Market,
and everyone is welcome to join. Your membership payments are your
investment in the market and are used as capital to operate and improve
Connections Market.
Becoming a member of Connections
Local Foods Market gives you an opportunity to join your friends and
neighbors in building a community, owned, and democratically controlled economic
institution that serves the members. Connections Local Foods Market members are
helping to build a business that brings integrity into the marketplace, a
company that is responsive to and operates with the consumer's interests at
heart, while providing the community with good jobs and good food.
As a Connections
Local Foods Market member, you can:
 | Save 10% every day (members pay shelf price;
non-members pay 10% more) |
| Get discounts on pre-ordered case purchases |
| Special order items not regularly sold in the
store |
| Receive our monthly newsletter, Creative
Connections, in the mail |
| Receive a 5% discount on Creative Connections
advertising |
| Participate in the organization by serving on
committees, volunteering in the store, or running for the Board of Directors
|
It is Easy to Join!
Becoming a member of a Connections Local Foods
Market means, among other things that you will make an investment in Connections
Local Foods Market, essentially becoming one of the 'owners' of the
business. At Connections, we call this investment your Fare
Share. To join, simply fill out a Fare
Share contract and return it to a cashier or mail it, with your payment.
Benefits of membership begin with your first payment!
After
you have made your first Fare Share
payment, you can pick up your membership card from the cashier desk. A copy of
the Fare Share contract serves as your share certificate and receipt of payment,
and may be used in place of the card until it arrives. Please be prepared to
show your card or tell the cashier your membership number every time you shop.
Our membership program also includes options
for senior citizens and people with low incomes. Please ask a cashier for more
information.
Choose
your membership type and payment option:
Individual/Household Membership
An individual / household membership is one or two persons entitled
to one vote.
Payment option 1: full payment of $58 ($56.00 purchases a full Fare
Share + $2.00 administrative fee*)
Payment option 2: minimum of 7 payments of $11.00 ($8.00 payment toward a
full Fare Share + $3.00 administrative fee) * Payment in full saves you up to
$14 in administrative fees.
Specials
We will try to have a selection of new and popular products on sale — most all
month long. Product selection will vary.
ESP (Everyday Sale Prices)
Products
throughout the store at the same low price every day.
Essentials Program
Designed to bring you basic products at budget prices. Essentials are premium
products that meet basic nutritional needs. We try to buy enough to be able to
offer the deep discounts for at least a month.
Member Rewards
Every month we put a selection of products on sale in appreciation of our
members. (These specials are designed for our equity-paying members
(member/owners) and are not valid for other Connections Local Foods Market
members or courtesy memberships.)
Connections
HOURS
Connections Local Foods Market has its own
local currency, Connections HOURS. Through volunteerism, you can use Connections
HOURS to buy groceries at the Connections Local
Foods Market.
Due to the varying number of HOURS we receive
and/or are able to disburse, we need to be able to adjust our policy
occasionally. We will do our best to give you as much notice as possible before
these changes occur. You can use one quarter HOUR or one half HOUR as partial
payment per purchase totaling $20 or more—TUESDAYS and SATURDAYS ONLY.
Your Connections Local Foods Market
Membership:
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Strengthens our advocacy for high-quality
food standards.
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Helps us send an even stronger message to
state and national policy makers.
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Supports local and sustainable products.
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Supports local farmers, bringing you the
freshest, most delicious produce available.
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Supports your local community.
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Makes you a co-owner of our healthy foods
Connections Local Foods Market.
If you're ready to join, please begin by reviewing the cost of a
Connections membership, and read the Connections Local Foods Market Membership Agreement.
After reading the Membership Agreement, please submit the completed membership
application along with the appropriate membership fees in a check or money order
payable to:
Connections Local Foods Market
Annette Marin
855 South Rumford Rd
Rumford, Maine 04276
Your signed copy of the Application will be your receipt and will
serve as a temporary card until you receive your permanent membership card. Your
permanent membership card will arrive in
the mail in approximately three weeks.