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by kgmpers
4776 days ago
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http://community-wealth.org/strategies/panel/coops/index.htm... According to this site there were 724 purchasing co-ops in the US in 2009. Those would be stores like REI or food co-ops where the consumer is part-owner. The total number of cooperatives, including worker-owned business like Land o Lakes and ACE Hardware, credit unions, and utility co-op (25% of US power generation is publicly owned) is 29,000 with revenues around $625 billion. |
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