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When the Weather Gets Rough, Co-ops Are Tough The late 2000 merger of 28 community-based co-operatives in Atlantic Canada was a gutsy move to maintain a co-operative alternative in as many communities. The result was Consumers Community Co-... |
29 Dec 2003 | #110 January - February - 2004 |
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Where Are You Growing? Let’s say you have your labor in line, your margin has been consistent, and your sales have been steady. Now is a good time to review the horizon and set sails for the growth ahead. A couple of... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Where There’s Fire There’s Water The day after Thanksgiving is usually a crazy time for retail. In a food store you will unlock the store to begin a major restocking project after the first of the two big eating holidays. But in... |
26 Jan 2007 | #128 January - February - 2007 |
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Where We Are, Where We’re Going This edition’s annual survey of food co-op performance highlights largely healthy operations and continuing strong sales growth among these community-based businesses. And the review of the task... |
21 Jan 2009 | #119 July - August - 2005 |
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Who Benefits From Co-op Member Labor? Recent applications of Department of Labor minimum wage and related requirements to co-op member labor -- where members receive a discount on purchases in exchange for co-op work -- have... |
09 Jan 2004 | #034 May - June - 1991 |
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Who Does What in Personnel In a previous article ("Enjoying Employing," Cooperative Grocer #18, August-September 1988), I discussed the players and their respective roles in development of personnel policy. This article... |
09 Jan 2004 | #020 December - January - 1988 |
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Who’s Driving the Bus? As we go about our work of assessing organizational structures and conducting employee surveys in food co-ops, we frequently encounter an ongoing struggle between the marketing department (or lone... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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Who’s Watching Member Labor in Retail Food Cooperatives? When many retail food cooperatives were formed in the 1970s, the distinctions among worker cooperatives, consumer cooperatives and not-for-profit corporations were not considered to be barriers to... |
18 Jan 2012 | #158 January - February - 2012 |
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Why (Some) New Co-ops Fail The mayor spoke at the co-op’s ribbon cutting, and it seemed like the whole town turned out to celebrate. The local paper wrote excitedly about the new grocery store. The future seemed... |
04 Dec 2012 | #163 November-December 2012 |
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Why a Human Resources Audit? An audit can be described as an unbiased examination and evaluation of systems and processes of an organization in order to demonstrate whether they are in compliance with a standard. The human... |
07 Aug 2012 | #161 July - August - 2012 |
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Why Accounting Standards Matter download pdf of article |
27 Dec 2008 | #139 November - December - 2008 |
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Why Co-ops Die: An Exchange Why Co-ops Die: An Historical Analysis By Robert Grott |
09 Jan 2004 | #009 February - March - 1987 |
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Will You Burn Bright or Burn Out? Suggestions for avoiding "fatigue brought about by devotion to a cause, a way of life, or a relationship that failed to produce the expected reward." Neil Young's anthem on his "... |
08 Jan 2004 | #086 January - February - 2000 |
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Willy Street Co-op Triples Production Space at New Off-Site Kitchen There is nothing like change to make a financially sound, managerially strong, three-decade-old business feel like a tyro. Just ask at Williamson Street Grocery Co-op in Madison, Wisconsin. |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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Winning Customer Service Webster's Dictionary defines the word extinct as follows: Having died down; extinguished.No longer in existence.We all know about things that are extinct:... |
09 Jan 2004 | #069 March - April - 1997 |
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Working Together for Our Mutual Benefit Food co-ops are experts at doing things the hard way. We are grassroots organizations—it comes with the territory. People’s Food Co-op (PFC) in La Crosse, Wis., and the Rochester Good... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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Working Together Toward Sustainable Business Like many co-ops of the 1970s, the Community Food Co-op in Bellingham, Washington, began as a small natural-foods store, idealism fueling its birth and early growth. The store outgrew its 900... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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Working with Community Supported Agriculture for the Benefit of All Healthy food. Sharing expenses, risks, and profits. Active participation. Community involvement. All of these social ideals are shared by co-ops and CSAs. Our food production system... |
09 Jan 2004 | #064 May - June - 1996 |
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Year Four: CGIN Progress and Plans The end of the year always inspires reflection. While the numbers change almost every day, here's where things stand at CGIN as we close in on the end of 2001, a few months short of our fourth... |
07 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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Year One of the National Organic Program, and Thoughts on Conservation October 2003 marks the first anniversary of full implementation of the National Organic Program (NOP). At the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, the Organic Committee has been hard at... |
02 Dec 2003 | #109 November - December - 2003 |
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You Are Not Alone Is your co-op too small to have a human resources manager on staff? Is the HR function in your co-op divided up among different people? Have your HR systems been cobbled together from different... |
20 Feb 2013 | #164 Jan-Feb 2013 |
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You're Gonna Have to Serve Somebody In coffee shops, break rooms, and breakfast nooks across this country playground scuffles are taking place between inner children. "My upbringing was worse than yours" has replaced... |
09 Jan 2004 | #058 May - June - 1995 |
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Your New Store: Meeting First Year Challenges You have successfully navigated the stormy waters of a relocation/expansion project. Your co-op has proudly opened the new store amidst celebration, praise, relief, adrenaline and exhaustion. ... |
07 Jan 2004 | #099 March - April - 2002 |
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“It’s Not Really a Co-op” Co-op employees have high expectations of their employers. And they should. We claim to run our businesses with multiple bottom lines. Co-ops’ vision and values statements frequently include “... |
27 Dec 2008 | #113 July - August - 2004 |
