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Time Management "Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase efficiency or... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Buying Clubs Try to define "buying club." Is it a food co-op without a storefront? A stepping stone to a future retail store? A group effort to buy food as cheaply as possible? The only viable option... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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The Howard Bowers Fund and CCMA The Howard Bowers Fund was established to honor Howard Bowers, who dedicated his life to the consumer co-op movement. In his five-decade career, he worked for food co-ops throughout the Midwest... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Go Co-op! Can We? The International Year of Cooperatives continues to remind us that cooperatives are a global movement of great impact and even greater potential. Some of the examples being highlighted encourage... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Cooperative Ownership Gaining Attention The flowering of new worker-owned cooperatives and other innovative forms of economic democracy is slowly gaining more attention in various cities and through diverse media channels. One such... |
31 May 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Canada's Impressive Co-operative Sector Canada’s co-ops certainly are leaders in North American cooperative circles. One-third of all its citizens are members of one of Canada’s credit unions. Canada’s 9,000 co-ops dot the landscape... |
31 May 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Bill Gessner Joins Cooperative Hall of Fame Many readers of this site will recognize Bill Gessner’s name from his many past contributions to food co-ops, both through Cooperative Grocer and directly at scores of co-ops where he has... |
08 May 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Measuring Ends, Telling Our Story Why does the work of measuring the co-op's accomplishments and telling the co-op's story matter? |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Coordinating a Collaborative Commissary Kitchen It's 5:00 p.m. on the first Friday night in January as I swing behind the old Coca-Cola building near downtown Bloomington, Ind. At the buzz of the intercom, a staff person from the... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Owner Bond Drives Support Growth at Willy Street Back in April 2010, Willy Street Co-op (Madison, Wis.) launched an owner bond drive to raise money to support the opening of a second retail store, Willy West. |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Don't Wait—Act Today! Competition in the grocery industry is fierce. With more retailers entering the natural and organic market and more shoppers purchasing natural and organic foods |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Accounting Best Practices: Internal Control Summary: Our previous articles were on the balance sheet and the income statement. This article covers internal control. There will be a final article on cash management. Our vision for this... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Balancing Employers and Employees Food co-ops are known for being compassionate employers. Unlike some of our big competitors in the grocery industry who only work to maintain their organization's interests, food co-ops seem... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Startup Technology Choices Been called by a new food co-op for advice recently? The number of startup food cooperatives is swelling, and with it, the ranks of cooperative advisors. |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Promoting the International Year of Cooperatives Video Series on Food Co-ops A video series, "Lights, Cameras, Co-ops: Exploring the Country's Thriving Food Co-ops" has been launched by the National Cooperative Grocers Association... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Diverse Means, Common Ends Alongside many new cooperatives that are springing up, established food co-ops continue to evolve and deepen their community roots. This edition has several substantial reports that illustrate... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Fresh Foods, Fresh Questions Growth in fresh food sales – and “fresh packaged” – is at the heart of recent comments from the Hartman Group, a leading analyst of the natural/organic grocery industry whose research has... |
25 Mar 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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An Italian View of "Co-op: Made in USA" A new publication presents a dossier on U.S. worker-owned and consumer co-ops in the U.S. Written by Enrico Massetti, an Italian who has lived in the United States for the last 30 years, "Co-op:... |
08 Mar 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Who’s Watching Member Labor in Retail Food Cooperatives? When many retail food cooperatives were formed in the 1970s, the distinctions among worker cooperatives, consumer cooperatives and not-for-profit corporations were not considered to be barriers to... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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Food Justice in Its Simplest Form Food has an amazing way of bringing people together. We all relate to the fact that we need to eat, every day. This is why I chose to become a dietitian; I knew that I could connect to anyone... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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Marquette Co-op: Building Local Food In a small, rural community in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan, a vibrant cooperative grocery store is proving to be a growing local economic player. Marquette Food Co-op (MFC) boasts... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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Accounting Best Practices: Nurturing Your Income Statement Summary: our previous article was on the balance sheet, and after our review below of the income statement, a subsequent installment will cover internal controls and cash management. Our vision... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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Kitsap=Community One of the issues that faces startup co-ops is how best to use their oftentimes limited resources to get the most impact in equity, publicity, and community support. The Kitsap Community Food Co-... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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Makin’ Groceries with New Orleans Food Co-op While most New Orleanians wouldn’t call themselves foodies, they are known for their love of food. "Makin’ groceries" is a traditional term used for food shopping in New... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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IYC on Camera Happy International Year of Cooperatives! We’ve been thinking about International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) for long enough that making the mental shift from 2011 to 2012 was a... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
