The full name of the supply and marketing cooperatives is "supply and marketing cooperatives", which was probably established in the early 1950s. In our hometown, people's communes are units, and each commune has a supply and marketing cooperative. In larger villages, there is an extension of supply and marketing cooperatives-purchasing agency. "At that time, it seemed to be sensitive to the name' store', and even this name was not used. It may be because' store' was the name of the old society and was capitalist. Therefore, when we were young, we didn't know what a store was, except that the place where we sold things was called a cooperative (short for supply and marketing cooperatives), and people also talked about "what to buy in a cooperative" in their daily conversations. At that time, many things were supplied according to household registration, such as the alkaline noodles of steamed buns, which were three or two per month for a household; Matches for ignition, one pack per household every six months; Kerosene for lighting is half a catty per household per month ... and so on. There will be more supplies during the Spring Festival than usual. Speaking of vinegar, why isn't vinegar regularly supplied by residents? Because vinegar is made of grain, you need to pay three taels of grain raw materials plus 70 cents RMB per catty of vinegar. Because food is already supplied according to the population, if you add a catty of vinegar, you will eat three or two less foods, so there is no need for regular supply to limit it. Even if someone wants to be jealous, there will be no extra food to be jealous.

At that time, every household had a seal of the head of household, commonly known as "stamp stamp", which was generally carved into a rectangle about half a centimeter wide and two centimeters long to adapt to the size of the stamp on the form of supply and marketing cooperatives. Generally, there is only a three-character or two-character name, and there is no official seal of "XXX seal". Only office workers have these four-word seals, such as team leader and team accountant.

The seal of each household is used to "receive" all kinds of daily necessities (saying "receive" is because each household is provided with a fixed amount, and each household is limited to one, which does not mean free). Therefore, it is one of the main functions of the stamp supply and marketing cooperative to "receive" all kinds of daily necessities on time. As soon as the horn in the street shouted: What does the cooperative provide, people took their own "stamps" to queue up at the cooperative or its subordinate sales outlets. I am late. There are already a foot-long stamp on the counter. The counter staff sells you a commodity in turn, and you can stamp the form to show that you have "received".

Another function of the supply and marketing cooperatives is to "purchase", that is, to purchase a very small number of agricultural and sideline products such as eggs, peppers and dried sweet potatoes produced by farmers and deliver them to the supply and marketing corporation in a unified manner. At that time, farmers were not allowed to sell their products in the market, such as two Jin of eggs, one Jin of peppers, and so on. Some things are inconvenient for supply and marketing cooperatives to buy, such as piglets laid by sows. Supply and marketing cooperatives are really difficult to buy, so farmers are allowed to sell themselves along the village, but they must issue certificates of self-production and self-sales in the brigade (village Committee).

Supply and marketing cooperatives are the symbol of an era and the embodiment of the strict "planned economy" era. After the reform and opening up, supply and marketing cooperatives gradually withdrew from history. With the disappearance of supply and marketing cooperatives and the cancellation of food stamps, the "grain and oil supply" of urban residents has also been cancelled, because agricultural and sideline products and other materials and commodities on the market can be purchased at will.

In recent days, I heard that the country has resumed supply and marketing cooperatives. I want to know how different the operation mode of supply and marketing cooperatives in this "new era" is from that of that year. Or how big?