THE VALUE OF CONSUMER COOPERATION FOR FUNCTIONING AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIALLY ORIENTED MARKET ECONOMY

Issue № 10, 2015, article № 11, pages 62-68

Section: Cooperation and integration

Language: Russian

Original language title: ЗНАЧЕНИЕ ПОТРЕБИТЕЛЬСКОЙ КООПЕРАЦИИ ДЛЯ ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЯ И РАЗВИТИЯ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ОРИЕНТИРОВАННОЙ РЫНОЧНОЙ ЭКОНОМИКИ

Keywords: CONSUMER COOPERATION, SOCIAL-ORIENTED ECONOMY, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE, PROCUREMENT ACTIVITIES

Abstract: Consumer cooperation is important part of social infrastructure of the village, uses the economic potential for performance of social mission. In system of consumer cooperation the network sign was traced until recently: uniform complex of wholesale and retail trade, purchase and processing of agricultural products and raw materials, vertical and horizontal economic integration, unity of price and assortment policy. In recent years the situation changed. Trade became the main activity. Consumer cooperation remains the large employer in rural areas. Except traditional kinds of activity co-operators render new services to the population: a repair and tailoring of footwear, production and repair of furniture, service of a photographer's studio, hairdressing salons, artificial insemination of cattle, plowing of personal plots, etc.

Authors: Pliev IUrii IUrevich, Zavgorodneva Olga Viktorovna, Kruchinina Valentina Mitrofanovna, Ryzhkova Svetlana Mitrofanovna