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The following businesses are or were retailers' cooperatives, which are owned by retail businesses, and provide centralised marketing and buying services. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
This is a list of notable co-operative enterprises by country. Co-operatives are business organizations owned and operated by a group of individuals for their mutual benefit. [ 1 ] For a list of Co-operative Federations, please see List of co-operative federations .
The following is a list of food cooperative grocery stores and buyers groups, current and defunct.Many of the second-wave food cooperatives formed in the 1960s and 1970s started as buying clubs.
IGA Extra launched in the early 2000s to take the place of Sobeys locations in the Quebec City and Montreal areas. In 2015, several Co-op Atlantic stores became IGA stores supplied by Sobeys Quebec after Co-Op decided to exit the grocery store business. In Quebec, IGA also operates smaller supermarkets.
If the number of votes is based on the size of the business, there is a risk of all smaller businesses within the cooperative being outvoted by a larger business. A democratic solution that many retailers' cooperatives employ is an increase in votes based on business size, up to a certain point, say 5 or 10 votes.
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-controlled enterprise". [1]
The British Columbia Co-operative Association acknowledges the dedication of Maryanne Mathias, MBA student at the ISIS Centre of the Sauder School of Business at UBC, for her contribution during the data-gathering phase of the project. The Association also acknowledges the contributions of our Alberta
Wakefern Food Corporation is an American company that was founded in 1946 and is based in Keasbey, New Jersey. [5] It is the largest retailers' cooperative group of supermarkets and the fourth-largest cooperative of any kind in the United States.