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Ins and Outs of Grocery Specials A good promotional program can give your store improved price image, improved margins, and increased customer satisfaction. But how do you create a good program, and how do you... |
08 Jan 2004 | #087 March - April - 2000 |
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Time To Reshape Cooperative Identity? It's a new century -- is it time to reshape cooperative identity? The new millennium has dawned, and with it comes heightened clarity in our collective awareness of the importance... |
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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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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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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SPECIAL REPORT: Cooperative Grocers Associations By Robynn Shrader |
08 Jan 2004 | #088 May - June - 2000 |
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Cooperative Grocer 1999 Retail Operations Survey We are pleased to present the new Retail Operations Survey, which reports double digit growth in co-op sales during the past year, along with higher than ever gross margins. Those operating... |
31 May 2006 | #089 July - August - 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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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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Produce: Train, Train, Train What aspect of most produce departments is not given enough time or resources, yet can have the greatest impact on your crew's efficiency and positive attitude? If you guessed... |
08 Jan 2004 | #090 September - October - 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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Northeast Cooperatives: "Together we will create a stronger cooperative system." Northeast Cooperatives' strategic goals are based on meeting our members' and customers' needs, now and in the future. We start with a series of forecasts of how the marketplace is... |
08 Jan 2004 | #090 September - October - 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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Organic and Wild: A New Level of Standards By Mark Ritchie Over the last 30 years I have been intimately involved in the organic food industry at all levels, from production to wholesaling and retailing, primarily within the consumer... |
08 Jan 2004 | #090 September - October - 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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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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Create a Marketing "Profit Center" With an Effective Newsletter If you knew you could increase sales up to 50 percent on a product promotion, you'd do just about anything to obtain the magic formula. Maybe the first or maybe the last place you'... |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 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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Organic Cotton: Growing Need and Supply Organic Cotton --> |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 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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Developing Nirvana These customers are driving me crazy!" Nirvana Moon exclaimed as she burst through the swinging doors into the kitchen. The lunch rush was finally winding down and I was surprised... |
08 Jan 2004 | #092 January - February - 2001 |
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Millennial Musings on Dot Co-op and Democracy Acknowledgments Writers in Cooperative Grocer, I like to think, are voices that speak from the heart of our industry and that present the best of co-op experience to date. Thanks to... |
08 Jan 2004 | #092 January - February - 2001 |
