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The Editor Notes From rural Indiana to Japan, from Indonesia to Puget Sound, cooperatives are providing answers and a way forward in an environment of increasing challenges. Past issues of Cooperative Grocer have... |
24 Apr 2008 | #135 March - April - 2008 |
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The Editor Notes “Under construction” assumes multiple meanings when one is immersed in a project. Construction, whether of an organization or, as in my home case, a building, leads to reviewing matters such as... |
28 Mar 2006 | #112 May - June - 2004 |
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The Editor Notes New tradition: thanks locally At the farmers market or a co-op, I'm thankful for wonderful food and the hardworking producers who supply it. And when working I am gratified to be associated with... |
29 Dec 2003 | #110 January - February - 2004 |
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The Editor Notes Sid Pobihushchy offered thoughtful perspectives on co-op education and values at the June 2003 food co-op conference (see the July-August CG), and his remarks have now been posted at the CGIN (... |
01 Dec 2003 | #109 November - December - 2003 |
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The Editor Notes Values and ends This publication's editorial advisory board recently approved a statement of ends and values for Cooperative Grocer: |
07 Jan 2004 | #108 September - October - 2003 |
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The Editor Notes The Editor Notes |
07 Jan 2004 | #106 May - June - 2003 |
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The Editor Notes: Co-op Milestones The annual food co-op conference provides important opportunities for recognizing achievements and inspiring more. Milestones of service by co-ops to their communities are announced along with... |
28 Mar 2006 | #113 July - August - 2004 |
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The Fair Trade Movement For more than 60 years, fair trade—a trading partnership based on dialogue, transparency, and respect—has contributed to greater social and economic equity and to protection of the global... |
15 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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The Farmer and the Feds Entering the second year of the fully implemented National Organic Program, we are beginning to see the NOP's impact on a grassroots movement gone "mainstream." Those of us whose business relies... |
29 Dec 2003 | #110 January - February - 2004 |
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The Farmer in the Deli Janet Zeller of the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op and I recently led a workshop at the Ecological Farming Conference in California. During the session she described many of the wonderful consumer... |
07 Jan 2004 | #105 March - April - 2003 |
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The Farmers Market: An Invitation to Play With more than 90 vendors, $2 million in annual sales, and a customer count that hovers around 7,000 each week, the Davis Farmer’s Market has moved beyond “quaint local tradition” straight into an... |
20 Jan 2009 | #130 May - June - 2007 |
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The Fresh Competitive Advantage download pdf of article |
18 Jan 2009 | #140 January - February - 2009 |
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The Growth Roadway Expansion and growth are on the minds of many cooperative board and management leaders. And this makes sense, since growing our cooperatives’ abilities to deliver on their organizational... |
04 Dec 2012 | #163 November-December 2012 |
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The Howard Bowers Fund and CCMA The Howard Bowers Fund was established to honor Howard Bowers, who dedicated his life to the consumer co-op movement. In his five-decade career, he worked for food co-ops throughout the Midwest... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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The legend of Toyohiko Kagawa lives on The Co-op Food Store in Hanover, NH, held its third annual Co-op Expo on April 30, and was honored to present a lecture by author and cooperator David Thompson. Learn more and listen to the... |
06 May 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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The Long Road Back For background on the shaky start to Mississippi Market's second store, see "A Near Miss at Mississippi Market," in CG #92, Jan.-Feb. 2001. |
07 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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The New Co-op Kids on the Block When Food Co-op 500 was founded in late 2004, it took its name from Marilyn Scholl's challenge to the co-op community to build our sector to 500 storefronts within the next 10 years. The new wave... |
25 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
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The Past as Prelude During the 1960s and the 1970s, when "new wave" co-ops were thriving, one other consumer goods co-op all by itself probably exceeded all of them put together in number of members, lives touched,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #010 April - May - 1987 |
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The Perils of Co-Management Is it inevitable that all "new wave" co-ops founded in the 1970s will end up with general managers? While only a few have had a general manager from the beginning, many co-ops have... |
09 Jan 2004 | #051 March - April - 1994 |
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The Politics of Cooperation: Exploring the Landscape Cultivating cooperation, by its nature, means working with many different groups. Here is a primer on the many organizations and resources you need to know about as you work to establish or... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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The Potential of a Cooperative System: "You clearly have a lot of very dedicated people working in co-ops in the States -- because there's only a limited co-op system here to support them." --Eric... |
09 Jan 2004 | #050 January - February - 1994 |
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The Power of Collaboration Ten years ago, the Community Food Co-op (Bellingham, Wash.) initiated the Farm Fund, through which a portion of the co-op’s donation budget goes directly to specific farm projects. The Farm Fund... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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The Real Business of the Co-op What is member linkage? How do we know if we’re doing enough? Shouldn’t members be more “involved” with our co-op? These are questions that often come from boards, general managers, and staff as... |
27 Oct 2004 | #114 September - October - 2004 |
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The Right Fit There are a number of characteristics that can add to or detract from a natural food co-op store’s opportunity for success. We’ve covered location and site characteristics to be considered in... |
10 Oct 2011 | #156 September - October - 2011 |
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The Spirit of Generosity The collective progress in collaboration that the food co-op sector has achieved over the past decade has been significant and inspiring. “Cooperation among cooperatives,” through the Cooperative... |
16 Mar 2004 | #111 March - April - 2004 |
