I think a populating of the around 1000 of the city and the sorrunding area is maybe enough though it is likely harder to compete in these times where everyone has cars and such.
(THere is also recent examples here where it is not really a cooperative but a group of citizens getting together and raising money to buy the store and rent it out to a grocer. For example in Halvrimmen https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/jammerbugt/borgere-koeber-koebm..., where they have made a LTD that owns the store)
(THere is also recent examples here where it is not really a cooperative but a group of citizens getting together and raising money to buy the store and rent it out to a grocer. For example in Halvrimmen https://nordjyske.dk/nyheder/jammerbugt/borgere-koeber-koebm..., where they have made a LTD that owns the store)