What is wrong with the public owned corporation?  "I create everything, I own" was the big snafu Oliver Stone made in his movie.   When I go to a store and find it is employee owned, I really stay away from the place.  If they don't offer you a job, and they don't offer stock, why would anyone shop in the place?  Some of these employee owned companies do offer stocks, but only to workers of the company. Publix supermarkets offers this.