“CO-OPERATIVE.”
ON BUTTER BOXES. Some months ago some of the provincial grocers’ associations advocated that the use of the word “ co-operative ” on Irish and colonial butter boxes should be abolished. Among small grocers in the provinces, who are severely hit by the competition of the great co-operative comganies in Manchester and other centres of working-class population, the word “co-operative” is looked on with great suspicion, many shopkeepers absolutely refusing to have in their shops butter boxes marked “ co-opera-tive.” So the associations are trying to get the factories to delete the word from their brands. Apparently no response to the appeal has come from Australia, but at a recent meeting of the British Grocers’ Association it was announced that several Irish factories had consented to Abandon the use of the word “ co-oper-ative ” on their boxes.
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Waipa Post, Volume III, Issue 101, 12 April 1912, Page 4
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