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"Consumer Groups Get It Wrong" -- Plus a new food safety report Adding to the earlier version of this story: National Sustainable Agriculture Committee has released a new report on food safety: “A Sustainable Agriculture Perspective on Food Safety.” ... |
25 Oct 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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"Flexible or Flawed" Co-op Laws Rick Stewart: "Pigs are authorized to wear lipstick" To the editor:After leaving Frontier Natural Products Co-op in 1999, I enjoyed distracting myself with various non-co-op activities such as... |
01 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
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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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"Reasonable Accommodations" Under the ADA The Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on disabilities (physical or mental). The employer has a duty, in fact, to provide its employees and... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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"Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers" Published In mid-February a major new study was released by the Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds. Available for free download at http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org, the 50-page document,... |
16 Feb 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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"The Cooperative Turn" A new article, subtitled "Building the right kind of autonomy," provides an excellent overview of what cooperatives can offer a world that is in economic crisis. "The Cooperative Turn," written... |
04 Aug 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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"We Live In A Political World" For many of us, pursuing careers in cooperatives is a means of applying, through the institutions we build by our daily work, principles that evoke a world of social justice. Perhaps -- in the... |
09 Jan 2004 | #033 March - April - 1991 |
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"We Need You to Be Successful" UNFI has the financial strength and buying power to serve all channels of this industry and to compete with the conventional wholesalers who will try and get into this business. Because the core... |
07 Jan 2004 | #107 July - August - 2003 |
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"Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore." Better co-op stores and stronger regional and national co-op associations are gratifying results based on years of groundwork. Each year the reports of the Cooperative Grocers Associations and... |
07 Jan 2004 | #099 March - April - 2002 |
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$3 Billion in Sales by 2020 — What Does It Take? download pdf of article The 109 member co-ops of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) currently generate annual sales of $1 billion. NCGA believes that growing the sector’s... |
27 Dec 2008 | #138 September - October - 2008 |
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14 Carrots: New London Co-op New London, New Hampshire: After 18 years as a privately owned natural foods store, 14 Carrots became a member-owned cooperative on August 1. Says general manager Rick Libbey, "Our mission... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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2000 Retail Operations Survey
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08 Jan 2004 | #095 July - August - 2001 |
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2000 Retail Operations Survey: Statistical Summary Cooperative Grocer 2000 Retail Operations SurveyStatistical Summary of Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and RatiosSMALL Sales <$1 MillionMEDIUM SMALL Sales $1-2 MillionMEDIUM Sales $2-4 Million... |
31 May 2006 | #095 July - August - 2001 |
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2008 Grants and 2009 Plans at the Howard Bowers Fund download pdf of article |
03 Mar 2009 | #141 March - April - 2009 |
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2012: International Year of Cooperatives
"Cooperative enterprises build a better world." This has been adopted as the official slogan of "2012: International Year of Cooperatives"—a United Nations declaration and a global... |
05 Oct 2011 | #156 September - October - 2011 |
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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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30 Years of Vitality Ontario Natural Food Co-op (ONFC) has just celebrated its 30th year. We’re proud to have come so far, yet there is so much more to be accomplished. In fact, there are times when I feel fortunate... |
20 Jan 2009 | #129 march - april - 2007 |
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5 a Day: Serving Good Health We are all dedicated to serving our communities the best food possible, but I have to wonder if we are doing everything we can. I recently read these alarming statistics on the “5 a day” website,... |
21 Jan 2009 | #120 September - October - 2005 |
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500 Co-ops in 10 Years! 500 Co-ops PDF Version(237Kb) When I get calls and emails from people looking for information on how to start a food co-op, I’m glad I can send them to the Cooperative Grocers Information... |
21 Jan 2009 | #119 July - August - 2005 |
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A "Non-Working, Non-Worrying" Member "Non-Working, Non-Worrying" member Paul Cultrera responds to the article about exemptions for co-op member labor programs in the July-August 1991 issue of Cooperative Grocer by Shady DeJong and... |
09 Jan 2004 | #036 September - October - 1991 |
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A Board’s Duty download pdf of article The man in the wilderness asked of me, How many strawberries grow in the sea? I answered him as I thought good As many as red herrings grow in the wood. -Old Nursery... |
19 Jan 2009 | #138 September - October - 2008 |
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A Call to Be Inclusive In June, I was inspired once again by the annual CCMA conference of food co-op leaders, summarized elsewhere in these pages. I also have a few uneasy questions, but those too stem from breathing... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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A Common Vision? Last time I briefly mentioned the cultural shift required for us to work together with effectiveness and accountability. As more and more projects reach a pivotal point, I become increasingly... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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A Community of Co-ops Grows in Philly By 2007, Weavers Way Co-op was a Philadelphia neighborhood institution, with a growing urban farm program, expanding partnerships with local schools, nearly 3,000 member households, and annual... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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A Conversation With Mark Ritchie on Food and Co-ops
Bruce Bacon is a community activist and market gardener in Ramsey, Minnesota. Dave Gutknecht has been working with food cooperatives since the early 1970s, and is the publisher... |
09 Jan 2004 | #030 September - October - 1990 |
