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Building a Cooperative Base and Future These may actually be good circumstances for cooperatives. The country has entered a new era, marked by financial decline and much uncertainty, continuing wars, and accelerating environmental... |
05 Jan 2010 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Building a Cooperative Virtual Chain NCGA: Building a Cooperative Virtual Chain |
07 Jan 2004 | #104 January - February - 2003 |
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Building a Customer Service System The key to exceptional services lies in building relationships, and in the quality of relationships, with customers and with employees. |
09 Jan 2004 | #073 November - December - 1997 |
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Building a Foundation for Co-op Programs Building a Foundation for Co-op Programs |
07 Jan 2004 | #105 March - April - 2003 |
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Building a Healthy Local Foods Economy with Coopetition Every so often a question will be put forth among co-ops that, in its simplified version, asks something like this: “Does your co-op support farmers markets and community-supported agriculture (... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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Building a Sustainable Food System in the Age of Wal-Mart During a conversational lull at a co-op meeting a year ago, a rural electric co-op manager turned to a food co-op manager and asked: “So, Wal-Mart says it’s going to carry a lot more organic food... |
20 Jan 2009 | #130 May - June - 2007 |
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Building a Unified System Enthusiasm and momentum from the June Consumer Cooperative Management Association conference in Lexington continues, as the members of National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) contemplate... |
07 Jan 2004 | #108 September - October - 2003 |
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Building Accountability Who would choose to work for an organization that does not hold the general manager accountable? Would you want to work for an organization that does not hold your co-workers... |
08 Jan 2004 | #085 November - December - 1999 |
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Building an Advertising Strategy What is an advertising strategy? Basically, it is the formulation of a message that communicates to the market the benefits or problem solution characteristics of the product or service. Well,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #007 October - November - 1986 |
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Building and Improving Membership Programs Members are the lifeblood of a co-op: a truism of cooperatives. Without members, a co-ops wouldn't be a co-op; it would be just another local grocery store. A co-op exists to serve... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Building Blocks: A=L+C I remember learning balance sheet basics at some of my earliest co-op meetings. "A = L + C" was written for all to see, then explained again and again: Assets = Liabilities + Capital. When we... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Building Controversy in Bozeman Building Controversy in Bozeman |
07 Jan 2004 | #105 March - April - 2003 |
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Building Democratic Culture "How will you headline your report? ‘Too Much Love in the Air’?” one manager asked me. This year’s gathering of food co-op leaders, besides having the largest attendance ever, had lots of positive... |
26 Aug 2004 | #113 July - August - 2004 |
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Building Financial Partnerships To be successful in today's competitive, global economy, you can't just be good at what you do. You have to be excellent. Natural food cooperatives are keenly aware of this. You... |
09 Jan 2004 | #078 September - October - 1998 |
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Building Momentum Building leadership ability at our co-ops is critical to the National Cooperative Grocers Association mission: to provide the vision, leadership, and systems to catapult a virtual chain of food co... |
20 Jan 2009 | #126 September - October - 2006 |
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Building Relationships With Financial Partners A relative recently gave one of us a book of pithy personal advice with the humble title of "How to do Everything Right" (we won't dwell on the reason for this particular gift).... |
08 Jan 2004 | #084 September - October - 1999 |
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Building the Cooperative Software Revolution Building the Cooperative Software Revolution |
07 Jan 2004 | #106 May - June - 2003 |
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Building the Future The COOP group of retailers in Italy is the largest and fastest growing co-op sector in Europe. For U.S. food co-ops, how COOP, a confederation of consumer co-ops, became the market leader in... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Building the GMO Labeling Campaign The growing demand for labeling that identifies genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) lost the California referendum but will be on the ballot later this year in the state of Washington. ... |
11 Mar 2013 | • Endcap Articles |
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Burlington, N.C., Welcomes Company Shops Market What started as an exploration of interest in Company Shops Market in August 2007 led to a very quiet soft opening on May 21, 2011, in downtown Burlington, N.C. Folks from other co-ops, our staff... |
05 Oct 2011 | #156 September - October - 2011 |
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Business Discounts for Co-op Members What's so special about co-op membership? Why should I pay money to shop at a store, and what benefits do I get that I wouldn't get anywhere else? These questions are becoming more and more... |
09 Jan 2004 | #021 February - March - 1989 |
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Business Plans: Doing the Groundwork This article Is the second in a series on business planning, based on the how-to manual Business Planning for Cooperatives, by Cooperative Development Services. The first article, "What Good is a... |
09 Jan 2004 | #040 May - June - 1992 |
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Busy Delis: A Touch of Self-Help If a touch-screen kiosk could alleviate the service bottleneck at your busy deli, would you view it as a promising technological partner, a healthy competitor, or another step toward the... |
11 Feb 2005 | #115 November - December - 2004 |
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Buying Clubs Try to define "buying club." Is it a food co-op without a storefront? A stepping stone to a future retail store? A group effort to buy food as cheaply as possible? The only viable option... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Buying Clubs: Competition or Opportunity? Recently, the issue of buying clubs or preorder cooperatives buying their food wholesale has been raised in trade publications and elsewhere in the natural foods industry. We at Northeast... |
09 Jan 2004 | #042 September - October - 1992 |
