The store sells a variety of foods and household goods, some environmentally friendly products, at a 21% markup over the wholesale price[2] (compared to 26-100% at a supermarket).

PSFC, a cooperative corporation formed under the laws of the State of New York, is run by a Board of Directors consisting of five persons elected to staggered three-year terms by and from the membership.

The longest-serving General Coordinator present at the meeting (usually Joe Holtz) serves as a voting member ex officio.

Since 2004, the PSFC has boycotted Coca-Cola products (including Minute Maid and Odwalla), citing the company's labor practices and exploitation of natural resources in third-world countries.

In 2008, the PSFC General Meeting resolved that the coop would discontinue selling bottled water [18] and stop providing plastic shopping bags at checkout.

With changes in NYC's trash recycling policies,[21] the Park Slope Food Coop put together the hard-to-recycle plastics collection currently in place with Terracycle for single serve baby food pouches, plastic cling wrap, produce bags, toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, and water filters.

[26] For three years members of the coop expressed their opinions in the Gazette regarding a potential boycott of Israel, and the July 26, 2011, General Meeting discussed holding a coop-wide referendum on joining the BDS movement, with no action taken.

[27] The March 27, 2012 GM, which was held at Brooklyn Technical High School due to an unprecedented turnout of nearly 1,700 members (eleven times more than typical), after a heated discussion considered and rejected a proposal to hold such a referendum.

[28][29][30][31] In 2010, in response to an announcement by the menswear retailer Barneys New York that they would be opening a location in Brooklyn called Barneys Coop, the PSFC General Meeting (GM) considered taking action in light of the company's apparent violation of New York's Cooperative Corporations Law, which restricts the use of the term "coop" to cooperative businesses.

[36][37] Among the issues raised are job security (an end to "at-will employment"), unequal treatment in the work place (racism and other forms of discrimination) and a desire to better align the Coop with international cooperative principles and values of democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity.

[46][47] PSFC's work shift requirement, which includes every adult member of a household having to partake, inspired criticism in the Aughts.

[53] Unpaid membership fees or unmet shifts lead to a status of "Alert," and then ultimately "Suspended," which prevent a member from entering and shopping at the co-op.

[56] On Monday, March 23, 2020, for the first time in their history, the co-op suspended their member work requirement in order to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection to paid staff.

[57] The co-op operated purely by existing and temporary paid workers until mid-October 2020, when a voluntary member labor program began for select assignments.