Editing Cooperative (section)

=== Purchasing cooperative ===
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A "purchasing cooperative" is a type of cooperative arrangement, often among businesses, to agree to aggregate demand to get lower prices from selected suppliers. Retailers' cooperatives are a form of purchasing cooperative.

Major purchasing cooperatives include [[Best Western]], [[ACE Hardware]] and [[CCA Global Partners]].

''Agricultural service cooperatives'' provide various services to their individual farming members, and to ''agricultural production cooperatives'', where production resources such as land or machinery are pooled and members farm jointly.<ref name="Cobia">Cobia, David, editor, ''Cooperatives in Agriculture'', Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1989), p. 50.</ref>

[[Agricultural supply store|Agricultural supply]] cooperatives aggregate purchases, storage, and distribution of farm inputs for their members. By taking advantage of volume discounts and using other [[economy of scale|economies of scale]], supply cooperatives bring down members' costs. Supply cooperatives may provide seeds, fertilizers, chemicals, fuel, and farm machinery. Some supply cooperatives also operate machinery pools that provide mechanical field services (e.g., plowing, harvesting) to their members. Examples include the American cranberry-and-grapefruit cooperative [[Ocean Spray (cooperative)|Ocean Spray]], [[collective farm]]s in [[socialist states]] and the [[kibbutzim]] in Israel.