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sidenote: coop is also a large swedish grocery chain, pronounced the same way :)

https://www.coop.se/

not only in Sweden, in Germany and Switzerland as well. I guess it has the same origins in the trade unionist purchasing cooperatives at the turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th

At least in Germany, it's pronounced co-op, though. The stores got rebranded meanwhile. https://www.coop.de/coop/historie/

Italy, UK... Yep.

we call our local co-op "the coop" for no real reason :)

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