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Americans with Disabilities Act: Reviewing Your Hiring Practices On July 26, 1992, businesses with at least 25 employees became subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act. On July 26, 1994, employers of at least 15 will be required to follow suit. The... |
09 Jan 2004 | #044 January - February - 1993 |
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An Agreement for Disagreements I wish I could say it is a rare occurrence, but unfortunately I get these disturbing calls all too often. "Hi KZ," the caller starts. "We've got this problem... |
09 Jan 2004 | #075 March - April - 1998 |
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An Eaters’ Bill of Rights We all know about our nation’s Bill of Rights and its guarantees of individual rights as well as limitations on federal and state governments. And recently an “Air Traveler’s Bill of Rights” has... |
19 Jan 2009 | #131 July - August - 2007 |
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An Evolution in the Coffee Aisle About 20 years ago, the fair trade movement took root in consumer food cooperatives around the country, primarily through the introduction of fair trade coffee. Led by Equal Exchange, the first “... |
24 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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An Exchange on Organic Fiber Standards Dear Editor: There are several statements in the article "Organics: Report from the Lone Star State" published in the July-August 2003 issue of Cooperative Grocer that are erroneous or need... |
07 Jan 2004 | #108 September - October - 2003 |
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An Exchange on Price and the Mainstreaming of Natural/Organic To the Editor and George Southworth, We are the leading natural food distributor in Ontario. Our main problem has been how to restrain and shape our growth, which is proceeding at a torrid... |
07 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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An Exchange on Regulation of Supplements By Bruce Silverglade, Center for Science in the Public Interest I would like to clear up some confusion regarding CSPI's position on dietary supplements. CSPI supports the right of consumers to... |
09 Jan 2004 | #047 July - August - 1993 |
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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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An Open Letter The following “open letter” was jointly written and issued in mid-November. As of December 10, over 200 organizations and individuals, including many members of the Organic Trade Association, had... |
09 Mar 2006 | #122 January - February - 2006 |
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An Open Letter to the Farmer in Chief Highly recommended: “Dear Mr. Next President,” an excellent review of the need to transition to local and organic agriculture, written by Michael Pollan, which appeared in the Oct. 12, 2008... |
08 Dec 2008 | #139 November - December - 2008 |
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An Update from the Frontier Co-op CEO Following up the previous edition's report on Frontier Natural Products Co-op, interim CEO Andy Pauley wrote: Since July 16 when I took the job of interim CEO at Frontier,... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Analyzing Your Store's Systems This is the third in a series of articles based on Business Planning For Cooperatives, a manual published by Cooperative Development Services that provides step by step Instructions for writing... |
09 Jan 2004 | #042 September - October - 1992 |
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Anatomy of a Recovery Financial problems are not uncommon among co-ops. Many have fought through severe crises that threatened their survival. Frontier Natural Products Co-op survived such a crisis recently, regaining... |
16 Mar 2004 | #111 March - April - 2004 |
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Annual Conference Gives Inspiration, Advances Cooperative Associations Over three hundred co-op directors, managers, staff and consultants gathered in Cleveland June 10-13 at the Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference.... |
09 Jan 2004 | #077 July - August - 1998 |
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Annual Meetings Annual meetings: you gotta love ’em. Frequently written into the bylaws and often a legal requirement for co-ops, this event is typically recognized as the primary opportunity for member-owners to... |
09 Jun 2004 | #112 May - June - 2004 |
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Another Look at Member Labor "Boon or Bane?" was the title question in a section on member labor in the first issue of Cooperative Grocer (October-November 1985). And in discussing the issue, it's difficult not to try to be... |
09 Jan 2004 | #008 December - January - 1987 |
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Apples to Apples: download pdf of article Successful businesses understand their customers’ needs and wants. This statement is so important as to warrant repetition: Successful businesses understand their... |
27 Dec 2008 | #138 September - October - 2008 |
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Appreciating the Diversity of Member Needs and Motivations download pdf of article In my work with food co-op boards and staff over the past 30 years, one of the questions I have often encountered is this: How can we get more people more involved at... |
21 Jan 2009 | #140 January - February - 2009 |
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Arcata: Double Trouble Looking through the brochure for the CCMA conference this last June, I noticed a workshop entitled "Meeting First-Year Challenges After Expansion." My first thought was, "I could... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Are Co-op Employees More Satisfied? Surveys Say So Ten years ago Karen Zimbelman and I conducted our first employee survey. In 1996 we shared the trends we observed in surveys we'd done (Cooperative Grocer, No. 63, March-April 1996, "What Co-op... |
27 Dec 2008 | #101 July - August - 2002 |
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Are You Certifiable? By Mark Mulcahy One of the hottest topics in the retail environment is how the new Organic Rule will affect us. One of the main areas in question is the... |
08 Jan 2004 | #094 May - June - 2001 |
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Are You Experienced? Want some good news? Co-op store productivity increased in the third quarter of 1998, when compared to the third quarter of 1997. (See Graph 1.) Want some bad... |
08 Jan 2004 | #081 March - April - 1999 |
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Are You Ready? There's not a lot of glamour in it. The "behind the scenes" work that goes into preparing for and planning board meetings may be tedious, time-consuming and very rarely acknowledged. And, to make... |
09 Jan 2004 | #021 February - March - 1989 |
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Art Danforth Art Danforth died May 10, 1987, at the age of 74, after five decades of consumer cooperative activism and public service. He will be remembered, and missed, by many cooperators throughout North... |
09 Jan 2004 | #011 June - July - 1987 |
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As Always, the Future Is Now Food co-ops have been key to reshaping the food economy in North America. They share credit for visible progress toward establishing sustainable production and generating public support for new... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
