Hah, so this. USSR had it formalized in form of PotrebCoop, literally consumer cooperative in 1921.
Consumer cooperatives go back to at least 1844
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Society_of_Equitable_...
Consumer cooperatives go back to at least 1844
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Society_of_Equitable_...