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In the west/southwest Chicago suburbs -
Trader Joes - Glen Ellyn, Batavia - coffee, tea, chocolate
Whole Foods - Wheaton - coffee and tea
Ten Thousand Villages - Glen Ellyn - coffee, tea, chocolate, rice, beans, heath supplies, decor
Village Grind - Oswego, Yorkville - coffee
Caribou Coffee - Rainforest blend coffee
Jewel - some coffee, tea
Online retailers -
Fair Trade at Amazon - buy coffee, chocolate, tea, sugar, candy, rice, and salsas.
Equal Exchange - coffee, tea, and chocolate
Global Exchange - coffee, tea, chocolate, gifts
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I’m happy to have stumbled across this blog. I’m one of the worker-owners of the Equal Exchange co-op, and we’ve been working in the Fair Trade movement for 20+ years and so are always heartened to see the word getting out. With that intro I’d like to just add to some of the Fair Trade information that Julie has posted.
At Trader Joe's you can also find Fair Trade organic hot cocoa (called "Conacado" after the farmer co-op that grows the cocoa).
At most Whole Foods you can get Fair Trade sugar.
One Hand readers might also like to know that thousands of places of worship, and faith-based offices, and hospitals are know buying, serving and selling Fair Trade coffee, cocoa and other products, including hundreds in the Chicago-land area alone. Most of them do so through our “Interfaith Program” at Equal Exchange. See: http://www.equalexchange.coop/interfaith-program
Through it we make over Fair Trade information and over 100 Fair Trade food & beverage products available at wholesale prices to individual churches or offices.
For schools seeking to switch to organic and Fair Trade products for fundraising we’ve also created a program for this. See: http://www.equalexchange.com/fundraiser
One of the best places to buy fair trade food is at Wild Oats Market (there is one in Hinsdale, or Evanston, as far as Chicagoland goes). It is a pricey store, but I respect them for carrying so many fair trade things. The Fair Trade options that I know of at Wild Oats are coffee, tea, chocolate, sugar, vanilla, and bananas. I think they continuously get in newly certified foods, as well. Pretty sweet!