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Linking Buying Clubs and Retails for Co-op Development
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09 Jan 2004 | #068 January - February - 1997 |
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Dealing With Risk Like the 2,000 pound gorilla at a small party, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, risk is always present, just standing there at the pretzel bowl waiting for you to turn around.... |
09 Jan 2004 | #068 January - February - 1997 |
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Social Capital and Membership Social capital, as distinct from private capital, is a philosophical foundation of cooperatives and a kind of ultimate realization of our efforts. Social capital is what is owned... |
20 Mar 2005 | #068 January - February - 1997 |
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Meeting Preparation: Do your board meetings have any of these features? |
09 Jan 2004 | #068 January - February - 1997 |
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Translating Operations into Financial Statements Good systems show themselves by not showing themselves at all. In a well run store, product, people, and purchases flow in and out in a seemingly effortless ebb and flow. Only from... |
09 Jan 2004 | #069 March - April - 1997 |
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Mission or Missin' Statement My previous column discussed our need to recognize a cooperative as something larger and more enduring than our individual stake in it, greater also than the sum of present members... |
09 Jan 2004 | #069 March - April - 1997 |
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Winning Customer Service Webster's Dictionary defines the word extinct as follows: Having died down; extinguished.No longer in existence.We all know about things that are extinct:... |
09 Jan 2004 | #069 March - April - 1997 |
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More on Mission and Capital Readers have responded positively to recent editorials on social capital. In this column I will review our co-op mission, the treatment of capital, and other co-op practices. ... |
09 Jan 2004 | #070 May - June - 1997 |
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Salaried or Hourly? Rather than "salaried or hourly," the question actually should be, "Exempt or non-exempt? The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that employees subject to it (i.e., non-exempt... |
09 Jan 2004 | #070 May - June - 1997 |
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Pay for Performance Are any of these scenarios familiar to you? The co-op has just hired a new general manager with the experience and skills needed to help the co-op realize its... |
09 Jan 2004 | #070 May - June - 1997 |
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Can We Help Build Inner City Co-ops? As a staff and a member of consumer co-ops for nearly twenty years, and as a community development lender for the past three, I have observed a need and desire in the consumer co-... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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Knowing Your Customers: "About 41% of retailers have, or are in the process of developing, databases that will enable them to track consumer purchases, as well as behavioral and demographic data." Progressive Grocer,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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Food Co-ops Can benefit From National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives Two years ago, I attended my first Consumer Cooperative Management Association in Sacramento. The event was educational and eye-opening. But when I started looking to network with... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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25 Years: Continuing Contributors This year's co-op conference gave an unusual "milestone" award by recognizing a generation of food co-ops: ones that have recently reached age twenty-five. In those years, what has... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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CCMA Highlights Needs and Spirit At the Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference held in May, the theme was "two-stepping between evolution and extinction" -- highlighting food co-ops' need to... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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Review: Making Membership Meaningful In 1995, an international consortium of co-op academics and practitioners collaborated on a book called Making Membership Meaningful: Participatory Democracy in Co-operatives.... |
09 Jan 2004 | #072 September - October - 1997 |
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"Operating at Cost" -- or Democratic Control? Take note of the recently announced campaign by the National Cooperative Business Association, promoting co-ops as "not for profit" and "operating at cost." In the Cooperative... |
20 Mar 2005 | #072 September - October - 1997 |
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LETTERS: Co-op Democracy, Co-op Discounts [Several readers responded to the previous editorial on co-op purpose, which quoted from a column by Russ Notar. Following those letters and a response are a separate... |
20 Mar 2005 | #073 November - December - 1997 |
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Building a Customer Service System The key to exceptional services lies in building relationships, and in the quality of relationships, with customers and with employees. |
09 Jan 2004 | #073 November - December - 1997 |
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Understanding Financial Ratios This month we study a case example of how the ratios presented in Cooperative Grocer can be used to analyze a co-op's financial position and direction. We are grateful that Ocean... |
10 May 2011 | #074 January - February - 1998 |
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All Your Board Can Be Whether you are a manager, staff, or a director, you will be happier and less frustrated when your co-op's board is operating smoothly. Board meetings that go on for hours,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #074 January - February - 1998 |
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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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Knowing Your Mass Market Competition The nearby mass market grocer will be the most prevalent competitor for most natural food stores. Natural foods chains with large stores (20,000+ sq. ft.), such as Whole Foods,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #074 January - February - 1998 |
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Finance Committee Finesse By Scott Beers and Margaret Lund One of the absolutely vital committees of any co-op board is the finance committee. Typically, the finance committee is charged with overseeing and... |
09 Jan 2004 | #075 March - April - 1998 |
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Pumping Deli Sales With Less Labor Does every deli need a fully staffed work station? Despite the trend toward more complex, service-intensive deli programs, the results are only occasionally more profitable, and they always demand... |
09 Jan 2004 | #075 March - April - 1998 |
