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Reducing Turnover and Increasing Job Satisfaction in Food Services The year was 2004, and it wasn’t pretty. According to the results of our “employee climate survey” in Port Townsend, Wash., The Food Co-op’s food services team had one of the lowest levels of job... |
19 Jan 2009 | #131 July - August - 2007 |
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Relief for Human Disasters If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, that common observation remains a difficult cautionary lesson for many people. A case in point would be international aid,... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Remember the Farmers The next National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) meeting will be held October 22-24, 2003 in Washington, D.C. (around the time this article is published). This time the agenda for the meeting has... |
01 Dec 2003 | #109 November - December - 2003 |
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Remember the Member download pdf of article There is a revolution going on among food cooperatives in the U.S. The root of the revolution is that many food co-ops are now fully engaged in the capital business.... |
18 Jan 2009 | #140 January - February - 2009 |
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Remembering Ivano Berberini |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Remembering Sid Pobihushchy Editor’s note: Sidney Pobihushchy died November 23, 2006, at age 74. Those who met him encountered a generous and unpretentious man, memorable for his large ears, his large smile, and his large... |
26 Jan 2007 | #128 January - February - 2007 |
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Remodeling for Fun and Profit, Part 1 Your store is bursting at the seams, customers are elbow to elbow, merchandise is falling off the old wooden shelves. You cannot even think about the new products that your customers are asking... |
09 Jan 2004 | #011 June - July - 1987 |
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Remodeling for Fun and Profit, Part 2 In our last article, we proposed ground rules for remodeling your store. We made two key points: research customers' expectations and the potential market for expanded services, and evaluate the... |
09 Jan 2004 | #012 August - November - 1987 |
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Remodeling Plans A proposal to redefine their regional and national associations has generated intense discussion among food cooperative managers and organizational leaders. In late November, the National... |
29 Dec 2003 | #110 January - February - 2004 |
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Removing the President of the Board Kootenay Country Co-op is a 29-year-old cooperative operating in Nelson, British Columbia. We have been enjoying several years of financial stability and membership growth. We are fortunate to... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Report from Cancun Every two years the Ministers of Trade from all member governments in the World Trade Organization (WTO) meet for a week to negotiate changes in the rules of trade. The fifth Ministerial was held... |
02 Dec 2003 | #109 November - December - 2003 |
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Resources from International Co-op Summits Cooperators everywhere can view online presentations and research delivered at major international cooperative meetings held in late 2012. The International Summit of Cooperatives in Quebec City,... |
25 Dec 2012 | • Endcap Articles |
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Restorative Practices Before the Olympia Food Co-op became a two-store operation with over 80 staff members, resolving internal conflicts was a direct but mostly informal process. If a conflict arose, such as an... |
17 Nov 2011 | #157 November - December - 2011 |
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Retail Organic Certification Based on the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, the National Organic Program (NOP) was put into effect in October 2002. As rules go, the organic rule, fondly known as Title 7 Part 205, is... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Retail Rock and Roll This edition’s contents illustrate different angles on a fundamental aspect of today’s economic environment: grocery retailers cannot plan to stay in place if they plan to stay in... |
19 Jan 2009 | #137 July - August - 2008 |
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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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Retained Earnings or Returned Earnings? Ask co-op members anywhere, "What's the purpose of this co-op, anyway?" and you'll likely get some variation of the answer, "To serve the members." Ask them how best to do that,... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Return to Co-op Atlantic By Jane Livingston Atlantic Canada -- the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Labrador has been hard hit by cuts in government spending... |
09 Jan 2004 | #056 January - February - 1995 |
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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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Reviving Democracy, Spreading Cooperatives The Occupy movement in the U.S. (there also are international manifestations) is one of the more encouraging recent developments in the present political environment. Most of the Occupy sites have... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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Ringing Out the International Year of Cooperatives The International Year of Cooperatives is in its final months, and National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) and its member and associate co-ops continue to celebrate all of the ways that... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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River Valley Market Celebrates Groundbreaking One hundred fifty enthusiastic community members arrived with shovels in hand on May 17 to join in the celebratory groundbreaking for the Northampton, Mass., new locally grown food co-op. David... |
17 Jul 2007 | #131 July - August - 2007 |
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Robynn Shrader Elected to Board of National Banking Co-op /*download a pdf of this article* |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Ruling Prompts Controversy Democracy and the high price of organic food |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Running a Successful HBA Department
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09 Jan 2004 | #065 July - August - 1996 |
