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Still Drinking Policy Governance Lite Download a complete pdf version of this article. Several years ago, the Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative board of directors implemented changes to its use of the Policy Governance model. The... |
19 Jan 2009 | #137 July - August - 2008 |
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Store Audits Reveal Benefits of Peer Review In some circles the word “audit” is considered a four-letter word—tax, financial, and operational audits are things to be feared and avoided. But since the early 1990s, co-ops in the Midwest—now a... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Store Security A previous article dealt with the threat to store security once the threat was in the door (Cooperative Grocer #12-13, Aug-Nov. 1987). Unfortunately, shoplifting and employee or vendor theft are... |
09 Jan 2004 | #015 February - March - 1988 |
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Store Security: Shoplifting Prevention and Internal Theft Shoplifting at the co-op! That just doesn't make sense. Why would anyone want to steal from this place? It's like stealing from yourself! That's the kind of reaction I often encounter when... |
09 Jan 2004 | #025 November - December - 1989 |
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Stormy Weather in California The past year has been a difficult one for Associated Cooperatives Inc. (ACI), the wholesale in Richmond, California, and for some of its member retail co-ops. |
09 Jan 2004 | #004 April - May - 1986 |
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Streamlined System Multiplies Members, Member Investment and Community Contributions Two years ago, North Coast Co-op, operating two stores in Arcata and Eureka (California), streamlined its membership program. At the time, no one dreamed that this change would... |
08 Jan 2004 | #082 May - June - 1999 |
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Strong Performance But Can We Sustain It? (Retail Operations Survey) Strong Performance But Can We Sustain It? (pdf 262kb) (includes charts, data and methodology not found on this web page version)
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05 Apr 2010 | #125 July - August - 2006 |
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Strong Results, Debatable Future: 2001 Retail Operations Survey
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07 Jan 2004 | #101 July - August - 2002 |
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Strong Training in Operations: Important for Strong Co-ops! Here is a solution for when you have poor or no retail training materials! The Basic Operations Training Resources are available for natural food retail cooperatives to use in... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Stronger Together As co-op insiders, when we talk about what we do best and how we want to be perceived by our shoppers, owners and neighbors, we use words like local, community, sustainable, responsive... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Stronger Together Works in HR, Too When working with Outpost Co-op managers on a particularly sticky employee issue, I often hear, "I’m glad I don’t have your job!" Although I may think the same thing of... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Suggestion Box: As Good As a Ballot Box It's not a computer, it's not a new touch-tone phone system. It's not even fancy. But it can do a lot for communications within your co-op-and it's cheap to operate. It's a... |
09 Jan 2004 | #008 December - January - 1987 |
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Support our Success: National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) and the regional associations that formed in the 1990s have always been, at a fundamental level, about store improvement and the improvement of our... |
19 Jan 2009 | #131 July - August - 2007 |
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Supporting Small Farms, Teaching Organic Agriculture Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op began its partnerships with small organic farms in 1998 when it sponsored a farmer to attend The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the... |
25 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
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Supporting the Bowers Fund and Co-op Emergency Fund Thanks to food co-ops for your support of the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) Howard Bowers Fund in 2010! Education and training are essential for thriving co-ops, and the Bowers... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Survey Highlights Gaps in Manager Compensation This edition’s report on general manager compensation provides some striking data highlighting food cooperative practices. A few survey questions for co-op managers provoked a broad range of... |
20 Jan 2009 | #124 May - June - 2006 |
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Survey of Co-op Potential in "Yes" Magazine "A Cooperative Economy" is the theme of "Yes!" magazine's spring 2013 issue: http://www.yesmagazine.org -- covering such examples as worker ownership, food co-ops and... |
11 Feb 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Surveying Members on Membership Increasing numbers of co-ops conduct an annual survey of members or of shoppers in the store. Often these surveys are directed at evaluating the core business operation: How far do... |
09 Jan 2004 | #067 November - December - 1996 |
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Survival Issues As this issue of Cooperative Grocer was being prepared for the printer, word arrived of the closing of Starflower Natural Foods & Botanicals in Eugene, Oregon. Their services will be missed... |
09 Jan 2004 | #008 December - January - 1987 |
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Sustainability Context- Economy within Society within Ecology download pdf of article Ecology-from the Greek oikos or house. The natural world that humans share with all creatures. Human Society – from the Latin socius or companion. The sum of... |
19 Jan 2009 | #140 January - February - 2009 |
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Sustainable Ag Programs Under Attack If the House of Representatives has its way, some of the sustainable agriculture movement's biggest wins in the 2002 Farm Bill will disappear for at least a year and maybe longer. |
07 Jan 2004 | #108 September - October - 2003 |
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Sustainable Agriculture: Farm Bill Fractures Sustainable Agriculture: Farm Bill Fractures |
07 Jan 2004 | #105 March - April - 2003 |
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Sustainable Business Models for “Organic and Beyond” This article contains charts available only as pdf. Download pdf of article here. What if we could predict what the future would likely hold? What would we do today to manage potential risks... |
20 Jan 2009 | #130 May - June - 2007 |
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Sustainable Seafood and the Tsunami Seafood has become a hot topic on many cooperatives’ agendas as stores struggle to determine what kind of fish is “green” or caught “sustainably” enough to sell. Some, like the Weaver Street... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Swarthmore Co-op Gets a New Store The Swarthmore Co-op started in a garage in 1937, founded by local residents in search of less expensive and fresher food. The membership fee was $5, which remained in effect until December 2002.... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
