[−]PaulDavisThe1st · 2026-07-02 Thu 04:30 UTC ·
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In the long run, you likely also benefit as a consumer from a diverse retail ecosystem, and worker co-ops in general tend to support this much better than traditional capitalist for-profit corporations.
The typical (but not universal) model in worker owned co-ops is for them to fork off new "branches" that are historically related to the original but otherwise independent.
The result tends to be a much more diverse set of businesses, some of which do better than others and some of which are more attuned to your preferences than the others.
Small capitalist for-profit businesses do the same, but we've seen how that ends up, with vertical integration and mega-corporations owning nearly all of them.
The typical (but not universal) model in worker owned co-ops is for them to fork off new "branches" that are historically related to the original but otherwise independent.
The result tends to be a much more diverse set of businesses, some of which do better than others and some of which are more attuned to your preferences than the others.
Small capitalist for-profit businesses do the same, but we've seen how that ends up, with vertical integration and mega-corporations owning nearly all of them.