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There’s multiple different businesses doing business as “the co-op” in the UK IIRC, somewhat based on geography but with different branding too.
by mattl 2y ago
There’s multiple different businesses doing business as “the co-op” in the UK IIRC, somewhat based on geography but with different branding too.
- gerdesj 2y agoThere are these ones in the UK these days: https://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/history https://www.co-operative.coop/about-us/history https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/about-us/ https://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/about-us/ When a Brit talks about "The Co-op", they (we) mean the stores. The bank always has bank appended to its name.
- rad_gruchalski 2y agoThere's also the funeral care: https://www.coop.co.uk/funeralcare https://www.coop.co.uk/funeralcare.
- gerdesj 2y agoGood catch. My New Year's promise this year was to be more demonstrably accurate than last year and I seem to have screwed it up already. Bugger.
- mattl 2y agoYou can see here what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-op_Food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-op_Food Different groups of co-operatives sharing "The Co-Op" brand with different but similar branding. Co-op Food in Devon vs other parts of the UK will be run by a different group. I went down a Wikipedia hole on this the other day.
- Doctor_Fegg 2y agoIndeed. Sometimes you’ll have two Co-ops from different groups right next to each other: Shipston-on-Stour has a Midcounties Co-op two doors down from a Co-operative Group Co-op. Both are externally branded Co-op, they sell many of the same Co-op branded products, and they don’t take each other’s loyalty/dividend card.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoYes, a village near us has two close by and competing, a mid-counties co-op and a food co-op.