cooperative store

American  

noun

1. a retail store owned and managed by consumer-customers who supply the capital and share in the profits by patronage dividends.

2. a store operated by a farmers' cooperative organization or by a cooperative chain.

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Etymology

Origin of cooperative store

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

So that we actually have a Black-led, Black owned cooperative store in the community.

From Slate • May 19, 2022

Retired 53-year-old Ayten Kar praised the cooperative store as she emerged from it with packets of coffee, describing it as "wallet friendly".

From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2021

But as many Turks struggle with the rising cost of living, shoppers at one such cooperative store in Instanbul were sceptical.

From Reuters • Oct. 20, 2021

With their Spartan husbands, they operate a cooperative store that has cut food prices 8 to 10%, saves the wives a mile walk to the nearest grocer or butcher.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had been running a cooperative store in the Transkei which he was soon to give up to become an editor of the weekly New Age.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela