That is… Not quite the same as I thought whenever I read that word. Around here, a co-op is a collective purchasing program or a store that participates in a similar program. They buy foods in bulk at wholesale prices. By bulk, I don’t mean the family size bags available at a membership club like Costco. I mean like a 100lb bag of flour meant for a restaurant or an entire pallet of something.
A group of people get together and make note of what they want to buy, and if enough people want the same item it gets purchased. Then they all meet up on delivery day and split the item at the amounts they paid for.
I’m assuming that is very different than what you are describing.
In the UK, a lot of our government still uses XP and a lot of our public embedded devices (e.g. the tills in the Co-Op) run on Internet Explorer.
Some random Thai hacker using 7 isn’t that much of a stretch.
What are Co-Ops?
It’s a kind of shop. They do other things as well, but the shop is the most memorable. Co-Op is short for “Co-Operative”.
They’re related to the Co-Op Party, which is part of the Labour party (a popular left-wing political party).
That is… Not quite the same as I thought whenever I read that word. Around here, a co-op is a collective purchasing program or a store that participates in a similar program. They buy foods in bulk at wholesale prices. By bulk, I don’t mean the family size bags available at a membership club like Costco. I mean like a 100lb bag of flour meant for a restaurant or an entire pallet of something.
A group of people get together and make note of what they want to buy, and if enough people want the same item it gets purchased. Then they all meet up on delivery day and split the item at the amounts they paid for.
I’m assuming that is very different than what you are describing.
Here’s the Wikipedia article on the shop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-op_Food
And here are the other businesses that the Co-Operative Group are a part of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_brand#Uses_of_The_Co-operative_brand
Even as a British person who has grown up with this organisation, though, I still don’t really understand it.
You know, like don’t starve together, portal 2, deep strokes VR 3D p2p edition.