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U.S. Worker Co-ops Unite! At their founding convention in late May, the United States Federation of Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Workplaces set some ambitious goals. Co-op grocery stores and co-op businesses that... |
26 Aug 2004 | #113 July - August - 2004 |
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UK: Aging Co-ops at a Crossroad Not too long ago, the Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-operative Society Limited (O, S & G), in the United Kingdom, faced a difficult situation. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it twice... |
07 Jan 2004 | #097 November - December - 2001 |
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Uncovering History of Cooperatives, Labor and Communities John Curl has documented a part of America’s cooperative history that few of us are aware of. This book was clearly a labor of love and the result of extensive research into the history of the... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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Understanding Audits Years ago, a few board members of our co-op felt the management had let things go to such a state that neither the board nor perhaps management had an adequate grip on what was going on. They... |
09 Jan 2004 | #022 April - June - 1989 |
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Understanding Distributor Dynamics We see several positive trends of cooperation between stores and their distributors. These are lowering the cost of goods in several categories and increasing the competitiveness... |
09 Jan 2004 | #075 March - April - 1998 |
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Understanding Financial Ratios This month we study a case example of how the ratios presented in Cooperative Grocer can be used to analyze a co-op's financial position and direction. We are grateful that Ocean... |
10 May 2011 | #074 January - February - 1998 |
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Understanding Marketing Research In order to improve overall sales performance and compete effectively against other food stores, food co-ops can choose from several types of market research tools. Generally speaking, the results... |
15 Oct 2010 | #149 July - August - 2010* |
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Understanding Organics Organics have a new look now, offering retailers a chance to educate customers and staff. Beyond GORP (Good Organic Retailing Practices) and retailer certification, there is further need for... |
07 Jan 2004 | #104 January - February - 2003 |
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Understanding the ULCAA Since 2001, new cooperative laws have been adopted in five states—Wyoming, Tennessee, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin—and introduced in the Nebraska state legislature. These laws do not replace... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Updating Trends in General Manager Compensation Note: There are additional charts in the pdf version of the story. Several years ago in this magazine, Mark Goehring and I proposed a new process for management compensation (CG #134, Jan.–... |
05 Oct 2011 | #156 September - October - 2011 |
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Using Brokers Successfully Buyers that I meet at trade shows and conferences most often describe brokers to me in less than glowing terms. Some buyers complain that brokers "steal their time" or "don't have... |
09 Jan 2004 | #076 May - June - 1998 |
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Using Policy Governance to Improve Board Leadership Food cooperatives around the country are talking about Policy Governance -- a system of board leadership developed by John Carver. While people are drawn to the simple logic behind Policy... |
09 Jan 2004 | #078 September - October - 1998 |
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Using Survey Data to Improve Co-ops Green Fields Market follows the annual Cooperative Grocer (CG) survey closely. For me, the survey and the accompanying analysis have been textbook lessons in cooperative finance. I... |
07 Jan 2004 | #095 July - August - 2001 |
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Using the Spreadsheet Template Creating a good template for financial planning is an investment on the co-op's part -- a darned good one. Computer spreadsheets make the task of financial planning infinitely... |
09 Jan 2004 | #067 November - December - 1996 |
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Valley Natural Foods Relocates Five years ago, general manager Susan McGaughey and member-owners of Valley Natural Foods initiated the relocation project that led to the development of property on the Burnsville... |
07 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Village Cooperation Builds A General Store The Village Cooperative is a rural co-op located in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, not far from the Connecticut River. We grew out of a buying club started in the mid-1970s, evolving... |
09 Jan 2004 | #032 January - February - 1991 |
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Visioning a Better Future of Business Advocates of cooperatives need allies with compatible visions of social change – including, most challengingly, visions that assume limits to growth and capital. The search for more... |
02 May 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Waking the Sleeping Giant Creating solutions begins with building the foundation for the future you want. One of the remarkable things about cooperation is that mutualism encourages solution-oriented growth, built on a... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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Wanted: 25 million Grassroots Advocates Wanted: 25 million grassroots advocates for just and sustainable food systems. Yes, 25 million. Not 25,000 or even 250,000. We want millions of Americans from all walks of... |
07 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
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Warehouses Test Cooperation Among Co-ops While I will throw in my two cents on the debate as to why the food cooperative movement is achieving far less than its potential, let me be clear that my primary purpose in writing this is to... |
09 Jan 2004 | #010 April - May - 1987 |
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Warming to the Tasks at Hand I recently read Heat, by George Monbiot, an outstanding British journalist who explores what it will take for modern society to reduce its carbon emissions to a fraction of present levels within... |
19 Jan 2009 | #133 November - December - 2007 |
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Watchdogging Organic Standards download pdf of article In the midst of watchdogging and commenting on the flurry of Federal Register filings out of USDA and FDA, we were stunned when the National Organic Program (NOP) of... |
03 Mar 2009 | #141 March - April - 2009 |
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We Are What We Sell |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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We Own It—At Last! In 1972, when Good Foods Co-op incorporated as a nonprofit Kentucky corporation, the Kentucky statutes mentioned only farm cooperatives. Our founders incorporated as a nonprofit, hoping we could... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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Weathering the Storm, Greening the Store Download a pdf of this article The steep decline of the economy is impacting every community, and most food co-ops are encountering flat or declining sales. At the same time, cooperatives... |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
