Home trade and Consumer Co-operation from Moldova constitute important sectors in national economy and have a special impact upon the socio-economic development of the country through the participation at the formation of GDP and having a substantial influence upon the life's quality. During the last decades these were placed in an ample process of transformation and modernization, adjusting to economic, social and competitive realities, all of them having a different impact upon the efficiency of its activities and social responsibility. Along with the beneficial effects and progresses registered in the evolution of home trade, resulting from the freedom of commercial activities, there are manifested some deficiencies with legislative-normative, institutional, structural, functional, consumer protection, social responsibilities character. The maintenance of Consumer Co-operation's social-historical mission and development of competitive economy in the last two decades needs a new innovative solution for the development, which would assure the viability and durable functioning of the co-operative system. This implies the improvement of the legislative framework, optimization of the structure and the management system, the diversification and efficientization of co-operative activities. The existent problems slow down the passing of the commercial and the consumer cooperative sectors to a modern format and alignment to European practices. The paper offers some solutions of overcoming the mentioned deficiencies and of developing the Consumer Co-operation and home trade.