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cooperative store

(UK also co-operative store)
 
 
noun [C] (UK also co-operative shop)

Definition

COMMERCE a store that is owned and controlled by a group of members who each have a share in it, for example its employees or customers
(Definition of cooperative store noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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