Today's consumer co-operatives have become big and made federations of their business functions
as merchandising. We visited two contrastive areas
one is the metropolitan area and another is local city in the Tohoku area
and compared four typical co-operatives and their federations. The results are as follows ;1.Kyoritsu-sha Co-operative based local city in the Tohoku area has strong tie to the area economy and local dietary culture
however
that tie of the co-ops in the metropolitan area has been weakened.2.Business functions of co-ops have been concentrated to the each federations
more strongly in the metropolitan area co-ops
and the separation between members organization and business functions has been appeared.3.Members organization of co-ops has been changing from based on the Han group system to the individual system
more strongly co-ops in the metropolitan areas.
