Co-op, COVID & Community

BY JESSIE SHOOK

Greenville, Alabama

Quality Co-op, Inc. is proud to be a sponsor of a special community project honoring the Class of 2020 with senior posters that line the downtown streets of Greenville. The Co-op also showed their appreciation for local linemen during the month of April for National Lineman Appreciation month by serving up some fried catfish plates for linemen in their community.

Live Oak, Florida

Farmers Cooperative joined the community parade driving by Surrey Place Care Center and Suwannee Health Care and Rehabilitative center.

Hartselle, Alabama

Morgan Farmers offered curbside service and at home delivery during this pandemic.

“We felt the best way to help our customers was to feed our employees daily during these stressful times so they didn’t have to worry about the cost or the struggle of getting a meal. This ensured our employees could serve our farmers to the best of their capability daily by having a much needed lunch break and time to rest each day. We are sincerely thankful for the overwhelming amount of support that the community has given us during this time. We would like them to know how grateful we are for their business.” – Lance Ezelle, General Manager

Pell City, Alabama

“We have been practicing social distancing by only allowing six customers in our store at a time. Customers have been very patient and have been utilizing phone orders. We also sent out graduation cards to high school seniors and have been supporting the wrestling team, archery team, baseball team and softball team throughout the year.” – Joseph Taylor, Manager

Athens, Alabama

Limestone Farmers Cooperative partnered with Limestone County grill team, Limestone County Farmer’s Federation and TriGreen Equipment to deliver ribeye sandwich plates to Athens-Limestone Hospital.

Andalusia, Alabama

“We closed the store front and opened a walk-up ‘window’ which allowed us to keep both customers and employees safe at a distance. We also practiced ‘safe separation’ of agronomy services and retail services at both our Andalusia and Florala locations – keeping the employees safer.” – Russell Lassiter, General Manager

Health care workers are making sacrifices to keep the community healthy every day during this pandemic and with the help of half a dozen area businesses, SouthFresh helped show their appreciation by serving lunch to 400 doctors, nurses and first responders at Whitfield Regional Hospital located in Demopolis, Alabama.