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REI founded as a co-operative
1938
Seattle, Washington
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Twenty-three climbers pooled orders to import Austrian ice axes that cost a third of the American price, and set up a co-operative to keep doing it. It remains member-owned and is now the largest consumer co-operative in the country.
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