Unicorn is an award-winning wholefoods supermarket located in Chorlton, South Manchester, with approximately 50 staff. But we are no ordinary supermarket: we’re a workers’ co-operative based on a strong set of principles that underpin the way we run our business. We have created a place we would like to shop in ourselves, focussing on affordable, wholesome, regional, organic and fair-trade products.
Unicorn is owned and managed by its 50 or so co-op members. We work with a relatively flat management structure and all members are ‘managers’ of the business, taking on equal responsibility for the running of the business as well as staffing the shop floor. In addition, we also employ a small pool of casual & contracted staff to support co-op members on the shop floor. Casual & contracted workers are paid 80% of co-op members’ hourly rate, or the Living Wage Foundation’s ‘Real Living Wage‘, whichever is higher.
