cooperative store

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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.

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Origin of cooperative store

First recorded in 1850–55

Here they are semi-touching at a grocery store; she likes kombucha.
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He was born in an apartment above the grocery store owned by his immigrant parents in South Jamaica, Queens.
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Along the way, Brinsley turned into a drug store, but it is not clear whether he bought anything.
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The people you work with, or see at your grocery store, or your church?
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It's nothing for someone to walk up to me in the store or at a restaurant and ask for an autograph or speak to me.
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This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
In this traffic he made money so fast that he opened an office, and subsequently a store of his own, in the Escolta.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
The dry earth, sun-baked to a depth of many feet, was giving off its store of heat accumulated during the day.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
At the store he would never have given in, but he was not accustomed to hearing so loud a murmur of approval greet the opposition.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
That she was a product of the prairies and a wonderful future was in store for her because of the fact that her work was original.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux