chemistry

PCC Community Markets

PCC Community Markets is a chemistry topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand PCC Community Markets rather than just read about it. In short: Puget Consumers Co-op, doing business as PCC Community Markets, is a food cooperative based in Seattle, Washington. With over 117,000 members, it is the largest consumer-owned food cooperative in the United States.

Key takeaways

PCC Community Markets belongs to chemistry; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect PCC Community Markets to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of PCC Community Markets from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Puget Consumers Co-op, doing business as PCC Community Markets, is a food cooperative based in Seattle, Washington. With over 117,000 members, it is the largest consumer-owned food cooperative in the United States. Both members and non-members may shop at the retail locations, but members receive certain discounts. The organization currently operates sixteen retail locations. Nine of the sixteen stores are located in Seattle (in the Fremont, Green Lake Village, Green Lake Aurora, Columbia City, View Ridge, West Seattle, Ballard, Downtown Seattle (Corner Market) and Central District neighborhoods). The West Seattle location reopened on October 2, 2019. The other seven are located in Issaquah, Kirkland, Burien, Bothell, Redmond, Edmonds and Bellevue. The organization was founded in 1953; it rebranded to PCC Natural Markets in 1998 and then to its current name in 2017.

Organization PCC is a member-owned and operated cooperative. The members govern through established bylaws and yearly elect a board of trustees who represent the interests of the members. Like other grocery cooperatives, the profits from the retail store operations go directly back into the stores or to the community (through classes, education or charitable efforts). Current PCC programs include:

PCC Sound Consumer newspaper PCC Cooks classes PCC Farmland Trust, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to sustainable organic farming Candidates on the board of trustees are required to collect 1,000 member signatures to appear on ballots. As of 2021, it has 90,000 members. Two candidates in the 2021 election, both employees endorsed by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, alleged that store managers had called the police on them while gathering signatures in an attempt to dissuade support. The employees were ultimately included in the ballot and won election to the board of trustees, becoming the first store employees to sit on the board since the early 2000s.

Relationship with Central Co-op In 1978, Capitol Hill Co-op dissolved for financial reasons and, in keeping with the principle that co-operatives cooperate with other cooperatives, PCC agreed to provide technical and financial assistance to the Central Co-op to replace it.

Pricing According to Consumers' Checkbook magazine, PCC's prices for the limited number of comparable items available were higher than the big-chain average. However, the quality of PCC's fresh produce and meat received very high scores. The prices of organic food at PCC were about the same as the average prices at other stores in the Puget Sound area.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with PCC Community Markets

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what PCC Community Markets claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In chemistry, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to PCC Community Markets before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about PCC Community Markets ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of PCC Community Markets

In research: PCC Community Markets appears in chemistry research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses PCC Community Markets in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: PCC Community Markets is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1953 establishments in Washington (state), Companies based in Seattle, Consumers' cooperatives in the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for PCC Community Markets outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study PCC Community Markets in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what PCC Community Markets means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain PCC Community Markets out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is PCC Community Markets in simple terms?

Why does PCC Community Markets matter?

Because it connects several chemistry ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study PCC Community Markets?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on PCC Community Markets.