cooperative store

noun

a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.
a store operated by a farmers' cooperative organization or by a cooperative chain.

First recorded in 1850–55

It is a sort of natural cooperative store, every polype helping the whole, at the same time as it helps itself.

It is different because it is a cooperative store and it belongs to those who buy as well as to those who serve.

This sum would have gone into the pockets of private storekeepers except for the cooperative store.

A thriving business was being done by still another cooperative store in New York.

Another cooperative store, this time in the Bronx, was taken over by the manager within one year.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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