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Conducting Member Loan Campaigns Cooperatives need to pursue debt capital from members through the creation of member loan programs and member loan drives. The purpose of this article is to suggest some of the basic principles and... |
08 Jan 2004 | #086 January - February - 2000 |
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Japanese Food Co-ops See Store-less Trends One Hundred Years of Japanese Co-opsEditor's note: Home to the largest consumer cooperative sector of any nation, Japan is also increasingly experiencing globalization and rapid economic and social... |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 2000 |
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Italy's Co-ops Draw Strong Public Support Constitution of the Italian Republic (1947), Article 45: |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 2000 |
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Making Co-ops A Great Place to Work What we love most about co-ops is the emphasis on people. Food co-ops are businesses that operate on a human scale, valuing individual voices--whether it be the democratic aspect... |
08 Jan 2004 | #088 May - June - 2000 |
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FMI Neighborhood Partnership Award Again Goes to a Co-op 1999: Hanover Co-op -- Harvest Partners Garden |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 2000 |
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E-Merging Co-ops Co-op solutions Collaboration and communication among leading food co-op organizations are increasing. Still lacking a unified national program for their sector, many food co-ops... |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 2000 |
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What Cost Ignorance? I once saw a bumper sticker that said, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance". I believe we are at a point in our industry where we are about to find out just how... |
08 Jan 2004 | #087 March - April - 2000 |
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Diversity Training Challenges the Co-op If one of the core values of the cooperative is that all individuals should be treated with respect, |
08 Jan 2004 | #087 March - April - 2000 |
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Collaborating on Perishables You don't have to be an industry insider to spot the difference between a grocery store with perishables teams that are sharp with creative cross-merchandising and one with... |
08 Jan 2004 | #088 May - June - 2000 |
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Organic Cotton: Growing Need and Supply Organic Cotton --> |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 2000 |
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SPECIAL REPORT: Cooperative Grocers Associations By Robynn Shrader |
08 Jan 2004 | #088 May - June - 2000 |
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Growing Co-op Community Foundations By David Thompson What if an article in Cooperative Grocer a decade from now began with the following? During the past ten years, Cooperative Community Funds... |
08 Jan 2004 | #089 July - August - 2000 |
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Retailer Organic Certification: Coming Soon to a Store Near You? By Cissy Bowman As we await the implementation of the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA), the question in the minds of most of this magazine's readers may be: "How will this affect... |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 2000 |
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Conference and Survey Show Stronger Co-ops, Yet Many Challenges Remain The results from this edition's Retail Operations Survey plus reports from the recent Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference provide many strong indicators of food co-op... |
08 Jan 2004 | #089 July - August - 2000 |
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Will You Burn Bright or Burn Out? Suggestions for avoiding "fatigue brought about by devotion to a cause, a way of life, or a relationship that failed to produce the expected reward." Neil Young's anthem on his "... |
08 Jan 2004 | #086 January - February - 2000 |
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Blooming Prairie: "The most important strategies are those that strengthen our retail members." As the market we helped to create undergoes dramatic and fundamental change, cooperative natural product distributors and retailers, the "new wave" of consumer cooperatives formed... |
08 Jan 2004 | #090 September - October - 2000 |
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How Much Can I Borrow? Every lender probably has experienced some version of the following exchange: Lender: So, how much are you interested in borrowing? Borrower: Whatever you... |
08 Jan 2004 | #086 January - February - 2000 |
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The Big Picture Here is another "big picture" edition, after the previous one's annual survey report. The new Food Co-op Directory is the most complete such listing available... |
08 Jan 2004 | #090 September - October - 2000 |
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Atlantic Canadian Co-ops Meet Globalization, Plan Merger Thirty years ago, Atlantic Canadians got their groceries from family grocery stores supplied by family owned wholesalers and the co-operative store. The co-operatives had emerged to protect people... |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 2000 |
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Co-op Advantage Program: Midwest Stores Cooperate Not a day goes by when the savvy retailer hasn't asked: How will my store continue to compete in an industry as dynamic as natural foods? Smart co-op retailers are looking to... |
08 Jan 2004 | #086 January - February - 2000 |
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Advertising: Taking the Alternate Route The very nature of the cooperative grocery business is far from the mainstream, as can be noted in the cooperative principles that guide the operation of our stores. But the... |
08 Jan 2004 | #088 May - June - 2000 |
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Planning Management Succession Say the board of directors at your co-op has adopted a set of policies to ensure a successor for the general manager. Now management's work begins. |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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Space Case: Make It Count Look down -- you may be standing on a gold mine. Then again, your facility may be just a black hole you throw money down once a month. |
08 Jan 2004 | #082 May - June - 1999 |
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Produce Section Time Management Reviewing how you spend your day can reveal some simple ways to regain lost minutes or hours. I'd like to touch on a few areas of difficulty I run into most often in produce... |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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From Home to Peru and Back Readers may recall my report and editorial following a trip to Peru last year (CG #78, Sept-Oct. 1998). This past summer I was again able to accompany Rick Stewart of Frontier... |
08 Jan 2004 | #084 September - October - 1999 |
