Co-op Food

For general information on organisations of this name, see Food cooperative. For the Canadian chain of co-operative supermarkets, see Federated Co-operatives.

Co-operative Group Limited (Food)
Co-op
Company typeGroceries retailer
Founded23 July 1850
HeadquartersManchester, United Kingdom
Number of locations
2,564 (2022)
Revenue £7.8 billion (2022)
£139 million (2022)
OwnerThe Co-operative Group
WebsiteOfficial website

Co-op is a UK supermarket chain and the brand used for the food retail business of The Co-operative Group, one of the world's largest consumer co-operatives. As the UK's seventh largest food retailer, Co-op operates nearly 2,400 food stores. It also supplies products to over 6,000 other stores, including those run by independent co-operative societies, through its wholesale business, Co-op Wholesale.

Co-op is a mutual and employs 56,000 people, with an annual turnover of more than £11 billion. The organisation is known for its involvement in social and community programmes.

Although Co-op formerly operated several larger supermarkets, the vast majority of their sites today are small or medium sized stores.

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