Transformation of consumer co-operatives and their rolls for community

今天的消费者合作社已经发展壮大，并把它们的商业功能联合起来，如销售。我们走访了东北地区的两个截然不同的地区，一个是首都地区，一个是地方城市，比较了四个典型的合作社及其联合会。研究结果如下：在东北地区，以共立社为基础的地方城市与地区经济和当地饮食文化有着很强的联系，然而，在大都市地区，合作社的联系已经减弱。2 .合作社的业务职能向各联合会集中，在首都圈合作社集中程度更高，出现了会员组织与业务职能分离的现象。合作社的成员组织正在从以汉族团体为基础的制度转变为以首都地区为中心的个人制度。

Today's consumer co-operatives have become big and made federations of their business functions, as merchandising. We visited two contrastive areas, one is the metropolitan area and another is local city in the Tohoku area, and compared four typical co-operatives and their federations. The results are as follows ;1.Kyoritsu-sha Co-operative based local city in the Tohoku area has strong tie to the area economy and local dietary culture, however, that tie of the co-ops in the metropolitan area has been weakened.2.Business functions of co-ops have been concentrated to the each federations, more strongly in the metropolitan area co-ops, and the separation between members organization and business functions has been appeared.3.Members organization of co-ops has been changing from based on the Han group system to the individual system, more strongly co-ops in the metropolitan areas.