On a day our hot bar menu promised we would be featuring spanakopita, we found ourselves short of spinach. My spirited chef quickly thought to substitute broccoli, and the florets captured more of...
The Master of Management—Co-operatives and Credit Unions program (MMCCU) based at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, will graduate its first class of students...
Why do we continue to hear stories about boards complaining about the general manager and general managers complaining about the board? Why do we still have boards of multi-million-dollar co-ops...
On January 1, 2006, new federal allergen labeling rules went into effect. People’s Food Co-op (La Crosse, Wis.) became aware of these new regulations on about December 15, 2005, when information...
We decided to develop an e-newsletter last fall for Bloomingfoods Market and Deli, with the goal of creating an appealing monthly information clearinghouse. It wasn’t our intention to write in-...
With its first year coming to a close, Food Co-op 500 has already made great strides toward the goal of growing the food co-op community from 300 to 500 co-ops by the year 2015.
In 2003, grocery workers around the country watched as 59,000 United Food & Commercial Workers members in southern California went on strike for nearly 20 weeks in reaction to employer-...
The co-op where I work in Bloomington, Indiana, is 30 years old this year, so we’ve been going through old boxes unearthing archival materials. A weathered photo of the band that played that hot...
This edition’s report on general manager compensation provides some striking data highlighting food cooperative practices. A few survey questions for co-op managers provoked a broad range of...
In mid-April the Blooming Prairie Foundation announced the recipients of its 2006 grants. Ten grants totaling $177,000 have been awarded to the following organizations doing important work for...
