Word: coops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coop charges $7.50 for Sisler's College Chemistry text. The same book is sold at the City College Bookstore in New York...
...Coop sells the Lightoller desk lamp for $12.95. It could have been purchased at Jordan Marsh...
Even with the ten per cent or eight per cent "patronage refund" (even that is now threatened), one usually pays as much or more for merchandise at the Coop as would be paid at other stores around Boston. In textbooks, of course, the Coop enjoys a monopoly on University reading lists which protects it from effective competition in the Square. And it almost uniformly offers the poorest prices in the Square on used books (which it will not even buy back until after the book buying rush, effectively forcing students to buy new or elsewhere...
Rather than being an institution dedicated to lowering the cost of living for students, the Coop has become one somewhat reminiscent of the colossal and mighty trusts and monopolies of America's great Robber Barons.... C. Thaddeus Stanley...
...Coop will hold its annual membership meeting in Harvard Hall 1 to 5 p.m. today in order to elect its 19-man Board of Directors. But for the first time in the Coop's history, the results of the elections cannot be guessed in advance...