Co-operative Retail Services

Co-operative Retail Services Limited
Company typeConsumer co-operative
IndustryRetail and wholesale
PredecessorCo-operative Wholesale Society
Founded1957 (1957)
(1933 (1933) as CWS Retail)
Defunct2000 (2000)
SuccessorThe Co-operative Group
Headquarters
Rochdale
,
United Kingdom

Co-operative Retail Services (CRS, originally CWS Retail) was the second-largest consumer co-operative society in the United Kingdom. In 2000, it was dissolved by its members, merging with the larger Co-operative Wholesale Society, to form the Co-operative Group (CWS) Ltd.