Thwarted cooperative success

In most of the Western countries the once powerful consumers' cooperative movement is in serious decline. Cooperatives have fulfilled their social purpose since today consumer interests are well protected by legal standards and regulations, and their ideals are forgotten since members have simply become shoppers. The decline was inevitable, because the committee system of management did not adjust to the revolution of retailing.

1. Thwarted community enthusiasm
2. Frustrated past goals
3. Deteriorating rural community cooperation

1. Prohibitive cost of cooperative start-up
2. Obsolete agricultural cooperative structures
3. Lack of collective housing schemes
4. Fragmented agricultural development

1. Unproductive subsistence agriculture
2. Underutilization of potential in local communities

1. Weak organization of community action
2. Neglect of agricultural and rural life
3. Insufficient means for community initiative
4. Government imposition of rural cooperative projects
5. Disconnected community initiatives
6. Diminishing capital investment in small communities
7. Cumbersome land system
8. Bureaucratic cooperatives

1. Sustaining community morale
2. Recognizing benefits from cooperatives
3. Motivating cooperation

1. Union
2. Unexplored
3. Thwarted
4. Success
5. Nonrecognition
6. Noncooperation
7. Uncertainty