Co-ops and nonprofits aren't always great. We have a co-op grocery++ store (almost like Walmart I assume) in Norway named Coop. It's a fine store and all but th

Co-ops and nonprofits aren't always great. We have a co-op grocery++ store (almost like Walmart I assume) in Norway named Coop. It's a fine store and all but they're no different than the rest. They spend tons of money on advertising etc so they just end up acting exactly like a forprofit corporation except they can say they're a co-op and market themselves as "a little bit yours" because you can pay like $20 a year or something and "own" it. I'm convinced there's a bunch of forprofits siphoning off the profits somehow. Just like with charities, they find ways to extract that cash flow. Slurping it up like black gold.