About Us

Our mission is to serve, engage, and empower our neighborhoods by providing affordable, high quality food in a clean and welcoming environment that is worker and community owned.

Co-ops are proven economic drivers and community builders. When you purchase ownership in Gem City Market, you strengthen that commitment to local partners and share in the collective hope of West Dayton’s resurgence.

The Movement

Gem City Market, on the corner of Salem and Superior Ave., is a vibrant, community-centered grocery store with well-trained, friendly workers who know the value of providing exceptional service.

At the Market you can expect:

At Gem City Market you will find affordable, quality kitchen staples along with fresh produce, meats and dairy. We offer specialty and organic products, as well as fresh deli sandwiches, salads and entrees. Most of all, you will feel a powerful sense of community, because this store was built by us, for us and continues to grow with the people it serves.

Our History

Gem City Market began as a community dream with neighbors coming together to bring fresh, affordable food and shared space back to West Dayton. After years of organizing, planning and investing in one another, the Market opened its doors in 2021 as a community and worker owned co op. Today we continue that mission by providing healthy food, meaningful connection and a place where our community can thrive.

{Community-owners of Gem City Market celebrate at our Ceremonial Community Groundbreaking and Block Party in September of 2019. Photo: Jan Underwood}

Gem City Market is more than a grocery store!

Gem City Market is more than a grocery store. It is a gathering place that features a teaching kitchen for classes and programs on nutrition and other topics, a welcoming community room, a cozy lounge and a raw juice bar. It is a space designed to support learning, connection and overall well being for everyone who walks through our doors.