One of REI's "Owners" Asks Some Questions
By AAN Staff
june 19, 2003 09:24 am
"Who owns REI?" the nation's largest recreational outfitter with 66 stores in 24 states, asks Seattle freelancer Andy Ryan, who once owned his own outdoor gear store. "It can't be the members. They aren't even privy to what the co-op's executives earn," Ryan, an REI member, writes in Seattle Weekly, as he takes off on a quest for answers about the Seattle-based co-op's operations.