MOORHEAD — A Moorhead coffee shop is closing, with co-operators citing a lack of resources and support from the shop’s legal owners.

In a post on social media on Friday, Sept. 5, The Red Raven announced the shop will be closing at the end of September.

“We found ourselves as the last two people of what had been an eight member team,” the post read. “This work is not sustainable with two people, especially when we are volunteering our time and effort, and we were not given the tools or the resources needed in order to sustain the shop long term.”

While the shop was billed as a co-op, with multiple employee-owners, it never operated that way, co-operator Margaret McKenzie-Ray told The Forum.

“When me and my co-operators signed on, we never anticipated being fully in charge of any of thes

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