Is it a product of the times that the supply and marketing cooperatives were discovered by Yantai women's roadside in the 1980s?

Supply and marketing cooperatives are the product of an era, rooted in the minds of many older generations. Even after 80s, they also experienced buying sugar, pesticides, fertilizers and liberation shoes in supply and marketing cooperatives.

In my impression, the local supply and marketing cooperatives are divided into two parts, one of which sells daily necessities, including food. The other part is the sale of agricultural products, including seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and farm tools.

Because in the late 1980s, the supply and marketing cooperatives had lost the function of purchasing agricultural products, so there was only one thing left to sell. In my father's generation, supply and marketing cooperatives also bear the heavy responsibility of buying, selling and distributing goods by ticket. Because they have mastered a lot of means of production or resources closely related to their lives, people who can work in supply and marketing cooperatives are highly respected. In most cases, they treat members or the public with a cocky expression.

After the emergence of private shops, private shops and supply and marketing cooperatives have coexisted for a long time, and they have a competitive relationship for the first time. Most supply and marketing cooperatives have also been restructured, and the original employees are contracted to operate and are responsible for their own profits and losses. But it still monopolizes the exclusive products of pesticides and fertilizers.

Then, after the prosperity of private shops and supermarket wholesale departments, supply and marketing cooperatives gradually lost their competitiveness, either becoming ordinary shops, closing their doors for rent or even selling assets (houses).

Some people think that the supply and marketing cooperatives are gone. Actually, it's not. The national supply and marketing cooperative system still exists, but it exists in name only at the grassroots level. According to the official income and expenditure of supply and marketing cooperatives, most of their income depends on the state financial allocation, rather than operating income, and their main business is in the allocation of agricultural resources.

In the past few years, supply and marketing cooperatives have been active from time to time, and the previously revoked business outlets have gradually recovered. So far, county-level and township-level supply and marketing cooperatives have almost achieved full coverage. And carried out several pilot projects, aiming to turn the supply and marketing cooperatives into a huge system integrating the functions of supermarkets, agricultural products sales and agricultural products regulation.