Cooperatives are not for profit, but to serve the community. A corporate structure doesn't operate it, but a community of people operate it and makes the decisions as a group. Often members also grow many of the fresh produce sold there. So, it is directly from the farm to the table without the middle man taking a cut.
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If that cooperative is a legal entity - that is to say, registered with the state to do business within that state - then yes, he/she can. He/she will have it in the name of the cooperative, and sign their own name "on behalf of" the cooperative.
Consumer prices are over 10.43% higher in Swaziland than in South Africa.
It is called a cartel or cooperative oligopolies or duopolies. They usually restrict output and raise prices for their mutually benefit at the expense of the consumer.
Consumer-owned cooperatives allow members to receive higher-quality products at lower prices than those from for-profit businesses. Consumer cooperatives include housing, food, and child care cooperatives as well as many other kinds.
cooperative society is a voluntary association of people for their common economic development. Types: consumer cooperative producers cooperative market cooperative credit cooperative framing cooperative
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i dont no what is the answer of consumer co-operatives advantages.
a national oversight board made up of labor, cooperative, and consumer groups, the Consumer Federation of America
A business can increase the demand for the good by advertising about there product more by by coating less prices on the good and also by giving a better qualities of the good in a cheaper rate till they have a strong consumer base
To obtain lower prices for members
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