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sidenote: coop is also a large swedish grocery chain, pronounced the same way :) https://www.coop.se/ https://www.coop.se/

• wolfi1 19d ago
  not only in Sweden, in Germany and Switzerland as well. I guess it has the same origins in the trade unionist purchasing cooperatives at the turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th
  • mkesper 19d ago
    At least in Germany, it's pronounced co-op, though. The stores got rebranded meanwhile. https://www.coop.de/coop/historie/ https://www.coop.de/coop/historie/
  • toyg 19d ago
    Italy, UK... Yep.
• sceptic123 19d ago
  we call our local co-op "the coop" for no real reason :)