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In Praise Of … the co-op. By Robert McNeil

Aw, the Co-op.

We all have a soft spot for the Co-op. It never quite gets anything right, having been reduced to a pale imitator of capitalist enterprise.

But there’s something comforting in its unsubtle lighting, inedible ready meals and grimly humming refrigerators.