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Customers and employees who join the co-op as members receive a dividend card, which when presented at transaction enables them to receive points. These points are then allocated a monetary value, decided by the board and based on the organisation's profits that year.
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from 1868 to 1968 and incorporating, since 1991, the engagements of the former
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A brief history of the Ipswich and Norwich Co-operative Society
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307:March 1967
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852:Categories
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301:Parkeston
256:Self Help
208:in 2005.
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186:History
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