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Congressional Cuts "Breathtaking" in Their Recklessness Here is the latest from the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition from Washington (www.sustainableagriculture.net), and it's not pretty: |
25 May 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Conservation, Everyone? At this year’s food co-op leadership conference, Bernice Johnson Reagon spoke movingly about holding steady by centering yourself around values. I appreciated her stating that the “courage” to... |
20 Jan 2009 | #126 September - October - 2006 |
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Construction Delays: Curses and Blessings New Pioneer opened the doors of its second grocery store in February, 2001 in Coralville. It's a beautiful store, tightly packed with fixtures, equipment and product. It is quite... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Consumer Perception and Organics The aftermath of the Aurora Organic Dairy investigation has left many supporters of organics feeling confused and betrayed. Aurora’s practices do not represent those of the organic dairy industry... |
22 Apr 2008 | #135 March - April - 2008 |
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Controlling Your Inventory Why implement an inventory control system? For one thing, it can reduce the cost of running your business. Furthermore, it can improve customer service through lower out of stocks. And the best... |
09 Jan 2004 | #017 June - July - 1988 |
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Cooperating for Health Care As the Obama administration undertakes the process of reforming our health care system, a critical piece of the puzzle will be to expand coverage among small businesses and their employees. |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Cooperation Among Cooperatives Dear Editor, I work for the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, New York, which is an 1,800 plus member co-op with a member labor requirement, very low prices and an annual sales volume of... |
09 Jan 2004 | #016 April - May - 1988 |
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Cooperation Among Cooperatives "All cooperative organizations, in order to best serve the interests of their members and their communities, should actively cooperate in every practical way with other... |
09 Jan 2004 | #058 May - June - 1995 |
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Cooperation and the Transformation of Society Wheatsville Co-op, established in 1976, has become a mainstay of the local business scene in Austin, Texas. Through our first decades, we were initially focused on survival and on cultivating our... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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Cooperative Accountability A recent survey sponsored by the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA) and a coalition of major national cooperative associations indicated that the public has strong expectations of... |
29 Dec 2003 | #110 January - February - 2004 |
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Cooperative Capital and Member Equity Systems: The Heart of Cooperatives This section presents material intended to help readers active in the leadership of their cooperative to design and argue for an improved member equity system. Four co-ops are briefly surveyed... |
09 Jan 2004 | #025 November - December - 1989 |
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Cooperative Community Funds Steve Stroup, co-op and community development coordinator at Bloomington Cooperative Services (Bloomingfoods) in Bloomington, Indi., is busy working on a presentation to the Bloomingfoods board... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Cooperative d'Alentour Grows, Links with Co-op Atlantic Cooperative d'Alentour is a distributor located in the southern Quebec city of Sherbrooke. The cooperative was founded in 1979 by buying clubs that wanted natural foods at a reasonable price--at... |
29 Dec 2003 | #110 January - February - 2004 |
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Cooperative Development Fund Announces 2007 Totals, New Grants The Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) thanks cooperatives and co-op members for their generosity this year in contributing to both the Howard Bowers Fund for Consumer Cooperatives and the... |
24 Apr 2008 | #135 March - April - 2008 |
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Cooperative Expansion at La Montañita Founded in 1976 by 300 families, La Montanita Co-op opened its first storefront in a community center on the eastern edge of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. This 1,000-square-foot... |
19 Jan 2009 | #132 September - October - 2007 |
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Cooperative Finance: Discounts Provoke Discussion! Editor's note: Recently, several readers wrote letters to the editor discussing financial matters. These letters appear below, followed by a response from the authors of the finance... |
28 Dec 2010 | #064 May - June - 1996 |
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Cooperative Fund of New England While completing its 35th year of advancing cooperative enterprise, the Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE) is extending loans at a record pace. By mid-year 2010, around $2.5 million in funding... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Cooperative Futures and Milestones The Editor Notes |
07 Jan 2004 | #107 July - August - 2003 |
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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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Cooperative Grocer 2001 Retail Operations Survey: Data Summary
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31 May 2006 | #101 July - August - 2002 |
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Cooperative Grocer and the National Cooperative Grocers Association Join Forces We're pleased and excited to announce that at its October 20 meeting the board of directors of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) approved the acquisition of Cooperative Grocer.... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Cooperative Grocer Finds Its Niche As the city of Austin, Texas, was warming up for the South by Southwest music extravaganza in March, it held host to a unique gathering of niche magazines from across the country. This first ever... |
15 May 2007 | #130 May - June - 2007 |
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Cooperative Grocer Magazine transferred to CGIN To the delight of the almost seventy people attending the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network annual meeting at CCMA in Philadelphia in June 2012, it was announced that the National... |
20 Jun 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Cooperative Grocers Associations Chart by Walden Swanson Building a Thriving Food Cooperative SystemBy Robynn Shrader The National Cooperative Grocers Association board of directors held a planning session last fall to... |
15 Oct 2007 | #099 March - April - 2002 |
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Cooperative Grocers Associations There is no shortage of ideas or opportunities for collaboration among co-ops, and as the list continues to grow we are faced with the reality of structure. How can we efficiently... |
08 Jan 2004 | #094 May - June - 2001 |
