Supermarket Newsletter – No. 32 –
Supermarkets COOP and PLUS merge
The intended merger will mean that the COOP supermarkets will be converted to the PLUS formula. In that case, the supermarket entrepreneurs of COOP will become members of the cooperative of PLUS.
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