Les comparatives de plus grande taille, comme les coopératives de crédit ou les coopératives agricoles, qui comptent des milliers de membres, peuvent être un peu plus problématiques en ce qui concerne les avantages que procurent ces coopératives aux individus.
Larger cooperatives, such as credit unions that have thousands of members, or agricultural cooperatives that have hundreds of members, may be somewhat more problematic as far as benefits to the individuals in those cooperatives are concerned.