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Minister for Housing, Prohibition and Excise S. Muthusamy, inaugurated the Chinthamani Cooperative Society supermarket and pharmacy astatine the Central Bus Terminal premises successful Erode connected Wednesday (February 11, 2026) successful the beingness of the District Collector S. Kandasamy.
The Erode District Consumers’ Cooperative Wholesale Stores, established successful 1964 and functioning nether the State Cooperative Department, operates self-service sections, cooperative aesculapian shops, Chief Minister’s pharmacies and their godown, petrol and diesel retail outlets, Uzhavar Sandhai, rootlike sections and Farm Fresh user outlets crossed the district.
Functioning arsenic the pb society, the wholesale store distributes Public Distribution Scheme (PDS) commodities to 372 just terms shops successful Erode, Kodumudi and Modakkurichi taluks. It besides runs 25 just terms shops successful the city. Under the marque sanction “Ponnamudham,” it mills and supplies wheat and ragi flour astatine subsidised rates to different cooperative institutions successful the State. The store recorded a turnover of ₹70 crore successful 2024–25 fiscal year.
The Minister inaugurated caller sections successful the recently constructed commercialized analyzable connected the premises. Officials said that a discount of up to 20% would beryllium offered connected medicines astatine each cooperative pharmacies tally by the wholesale store, portion footwear would beryllium sold with a peculiar discount of up to 10%. Products successful the self-service conception would beryllium priced little than prevailing marketplace rates.
