Military cooperative

In the United Kingdom the Army & Navy Co-operative Society was founded in 1871 but ceased to be a cooperative in 1934, becoming a provincial department store.

This later developed into the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) which continues to provide services to the British military.

[1] Military cooperative stores usually have low profit margins as they sell goods at preferential prices to the eligible customers.

It provides goods, facilities, and services to or for the entertainment and recreation of designated members of the Australian Defence Force community.

[5] A month later, General Edward Śmigły-Rydz gave an order to his subordinate units to create military cooperatives, which contributed to a significant increase in this type of activity in the recently recreated Polish Army.

[5] Initially, Polish military cooperatives had multiple functions, with some specializing in financial aids, others in activities like house construction or publishing.

[5][3] By 1928, there were about 300 such institutions in the Polish Army, many of them grouped under the Audit Union of Military Cooperatives (Związek Rewizyjny Spółdzielni Wojskowych).

[17] The NAAFI continues to operate as a government-owned company, running canteens in British garrisons and aboard Royal Navy ships.