@article{Riethmuller:12324,
      recid = {12324},
      author = {Riethmuller, Paul C.},
      title = {Consumer Cooperatives: A Neglected Part of the Japanese  Distribution Industry},
      journal = {Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics},
      address = {1994-12},
      number = {430-2016-31501},
      pages = {10},
      year = {1994},
      abstract = {The consumer cooperative movement is the largest mass  organisation in Japan, with more members than the  agricultural cooperatives and trade unions. With the  opening of the Japanese market to food imports, consumer  cooperatives will play an increasingly important role. They  will form relationships with foreign suppliers that will  give these suppliers access to their members - a group of  consumers who are perhaps the most affluent and discerning  of Japanese consumers. They will require that their foreign  suppliers produce products with residue levels lower than  those the Japanese government sets. They may also apply  pressure to foreign suppliers to adopt practices that are  environmentally friendly.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12324},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.12324},
}