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Strong Training in Operations: Important for Strong Co-ops! Here is a solution for when you have poor or no retail training materials! The Basic Operations Training Resources are available for natural food retail cooperatives to use in... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Streamlined System Multiplies Members, Member Investment and Community Contributions Two years ago, North Coast Co-op, operating two stores in Arcata and Eureka (California), streamlined its membership program. At the time, no one dreamed that this change would... |
08 Jan 2004 | #082 May - June - 1999 |
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Lending to Natural Foods Cooperatives Last year, NCB conducted a focus group with representatives of the natural foods industry to help us understand better the perception that you, our customers and partners in the... |
08 Jan 2004 | #081 March - April - 1999 |
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Manager on Contract Program Strengthens the Co-op System Northeast Cooperatives' Manager on Contract program was developed to strengthen our system of co-op management. Management of retail food co-ops is not getting any easier as the... |
08 Jan 2004 | #084 September - October - 1999 |
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Building and Improving Membership Programs Members are the lifeblood of a co-op: a truism of cooperatives. Without members, a co-ops wouldn't be a co-op; it would be just another local grocery store. A co-op exists to serve... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Is It Locally Grown? Recently I had a couple conversations that I found disturbing. The first was with a new young produce manager I have been working with on shrink, margins and ordering. While we... |
08 Jan 2004 | #082 May - June - 1999 |
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Co-op Legacy Legacy is the challenge of having the thrust of your life or your organization's be perpetuated beyond an individual lifetime. Children offer this to many individuals, and we... |
08 Jan 2004 | #081 March - April - 1999 |
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Building a Controlled Label Program Creating a private or controlled label program is one of the largest endeavors an organization or alliance of organizations can undertake. Such a program must be constructed within... |
08 Jan 2004 | #082 May - June - 1999 |
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Relief for Human Disasters If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, that common observation remains a difficult cautionary lesson for many people. A case in point would be international aid,... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Staff Teams Build Effective Solutions Introducing forms of participation to a traditional management hierarchy was the goal; a quality improvement process was the method. The history of Hanover Consumer Co-op and my... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Good News and Old News There is so much good news to report, in addition to what appears in this edition, that many of the stories will have to wait. For example: new co-op stores! |
08 Jan 2004 | #083 July - August - 1999 |
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Global Organics: Christmas Every Day? To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn.... |
08 Jan 2004 | #083 July - August - 1999 |
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Building Relationships With Financial Partners A relative recently gave one of us a book of pithy personal advice with the humble title of "How to do Everything Right" (we won't dwell on the reason for this particular gift).... |
08 Jan 2004 | #084 September - October - 1999 |
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Are You Experienced? Want some good news? Co-op store productivity increased in the third quarter of 1998, when compared to the third quarter of 1997. (See Graph 1.) Want some bad... |
08 Jan 2004 | #081 March - April - 1999 |
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Clarifying Board and Management Roles in Expansion/Relocation Projects Many co-ops talk about the need to move or expand for years. Often it is all talk, with a few false starts and little formal planning or action. For other co-ops, an opportunity to... |
08 Jan 2004 | #083 July - August - 1999 |
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Retained Earnings or Returned Earnings? Ask co-op members anywhere, "What's the purpose of this co-op, anyway?" and you'll likely get some variation of the answer, "To serve the members." Ask them how best to do that,... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Democratic Management in the Real World I don't have any statistics on this, but I'd bet that the vast majority of natural foods co-ops started out as collectively run organizations. For many members and employees of... |
08 Jan 2004 | #082 May - June - 1999 |
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Pursuing a Co-op Controlled Label I am passionate about natural foods. I am passionate about co-ops. And I am passionate about success. |
08 Jan 2004 | #084 September - October - 1999 |
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CoCoFiSt Data Sharing Strengthens Co-ops Retail food cooperatives have long valued their unique characteristics and independence. Current events in our industry have left many co-ops with declining market share, weak... |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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Crafting Cash Flow Budgets Profit alone does not guarantee success or even survival. Unless you project the co-op's cash requirements and manage accordingly, there are likely to be some harsh surprises ahead... |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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Two Stores and Growing: Bloomingfoods Market and Deli Nestled in the rolling hills of southern Indiana, Bloomington is an oasis of natural beauty and culture and is home to Indiana University, the state's largest school. Bloomingfoods... |
08 Jan 2004 | #081 March - April - 1999 |
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Building Accountability Who would choose to work for an organization that does not hold the general manager accountable? Would you want to work for an organization that does not hold your co-workers... |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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Transforming Workplace Culture "Culture" maybe hard to define, but the signs of a dysfunctional workplace culture are hard to ignore. Do any of these sound like your co-op? |
08 Jan 2004 | #074 January - February - 1998 |
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Democracy Works Democracy Works |
08 Jan 2004 | #104 January - February - 2003 |
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Helping Build a Thriving Future for Food Cooperatives Long before "just do it" became part of the American lexicon, the teenaged Homer Hickam, inspired by the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and fueled by a desire to beat the Russians at the space race,... |
08 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
