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Co-op Construction: Working on the Dream Once a year or so, I have been writing about the work of Food Co-op 500 and the newly forming co-ops that we support. Since our program began five years ago, we have worked with hundreds of co-op... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Co-op Devolution Part 2: Co-op Devolution Part 2 |
07 Jan 2004 | #104 January - February - 2003 |
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Co-op Devolution: Blooming Prairie, Frontier, North Farm Food co-op trends reached a remarkable turning point this summer in scenarios that accelerated the decline of cooperatively owned distributors and underscored the crucial role that boards of... |
07 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
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Co-op Distributors Close: Mountain Warehouse and WholeFood Express Two more cooperative food distributors disappeared in 1991: Mountain Warehouse, a small operation formerly serving a large Southeast region -- that story is related in the... |
09 Jan 2004 | #037 November - December - 1991 |
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Co-op Education is About Cooperatives Co-op education is one of the most crucial yet least understood elements of the cooperative food business and of co-ops in general. At times it seems as if education is merely tolerated because... |
09 Jan 2004 | #024 September - October - 1989 |
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Co-op Expansions Raise the Bar Every expansion is unique in some respect, but the universal truth is that building a larger facility includes taking on a bigger role in the community. More and more food co-ops are remodeling,... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Co-op Grocers Unite When Disaster Strikes Cooperative grocers take pride in the fact that they’ve supported local, sustainable farmers for more than three decades-long before it was the trendy thing to do. They didn’t jump on the “local”... |
23 Apr 2008 | #135 March - April - 2008 |
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Co-op Helps Build Local Business Alliance download pdf of article A few years ago, I traveled to a large city with a group of friends for a women’s college basketball tournament. During the course of our stay, it became apparent... |
19 Jan 2009 | #139 November - December - 2008 |
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Co-op Kanagawa Co-op Kanagawa, the fourth-largest regional co-op in Japan, is located mainly in Kanagawa prefecture just southwest of Tokyo. Membership was 1 million in 2002 and has increased every year. With 3.... |
29 Dec 2003 | #110 January - February - 2004 |
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Co-op Legacy Legacy is the challenge of having the thrust of your life or your organization's be perpetuated beyond an individual lifetime. Children offer this to many individuals, and we... |
08 Jan 2004 | #081 March - April - 1999 |
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Co-op Management Master’s Degree Program: Lessons Learned The Master of Management—Co-operatives and Credit Unions program (MMCCU) based at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, will graduate its first class of students in April 2007. Program... |
20 Jan 2009 | #124 May - June - 2006 |
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Co-op Partners Warehouse Download a complete pdf version of this article. |
19 Jan 2009 | #137 July - August - 2008 |
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Co-op Power From Brattleboro to Bellingham, many co-ops across America are engaging their members in activism and finding that the work adds value to both their stores and their communities. Their stories... |
05 Dec 2005 | #120 September - October - 2005 |
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Co-op Principle 5: Continuous Education One reason cooperatives need to educate about cooperatives is that assumptions about how businesses operate are not always appropriate to cooperatives. If co-op members, officers, and employees... |
09 Jan 2004 | #038 January - February - 1992 |
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Co-op Principles Meet Slow Money Principles The importance of rebuilding local and regional food systems has, thankfully, become mainstream; and co-ops are right where they should be—smack dab in the middle of it. Not surprising, really,... |
22 Mar 2010 | #147 March - April - 2010 |
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Co-op Principles Then and Now (Part 2) The co-op on Toad Lane was legally registered as the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers on October 24,1844, hence our reason for celebrating Co-op Month in October. The store opened for... |
09 Jan 2004 | #053 July - August - 1994 |
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Co-op Turns Neighborhood Loss into Second Store download pdf of article The loss of a neighborhood grocery store is potentially devastating to any community. That was the position the Hillsdale neighborhood in southwest Portland, Oregon... |
18 Jan 2009 | #140 January - February - 2009 |
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Co-op Union Conflict Yields Problem-Solving Lessons A manager looks at employee relationships, common interests, and a method of problem solving that builds trust and improves employee morale. This isn't an article about unions,... |
08 Jan 2004 | #094 May - June - 2001 |
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Co-operative Farms Acts to Protect Bees The Co-operative Group, the U.K. consumer cooperative featured elsewhere on this page and in the current issue of Cooperative Grocer, has launched an ambitious new drive to protect bees and other... |
25 May 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Co-operative Solutions in Hard Times Download the spreadsheet for this article download pdf of article Seven point eight trillion dollars. That’s over half of the annual Gross Domestic Product of the United States. ... |
18 Jan 2009 | #140 January - February - 2009 |
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Co-opportunity Thrives Again The story of Santa Monica's Co-opportunity is an arduous saga -- from early success, to the brink of failure, to its present very sound financial condition. When the cooperative opened its doors... |
09 Jan 2004 | #026 January - February - 1990 |
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Co-ops and Environmental Action We have much that we can be proud of. Co-ops in numerous towns and cities are active players in their community's environmental affairs. Historically, some of the first basic consumer protection... |
09 Jan 2004 | #040 May - June - 1992 |
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Co-ops and Public Figures Look to 2012 Spreading inspiring co-op stories. Developing more co-ops to serve more people. Building more collaboration among different co-op sectors: credit unions, food co-ops, worker co-ops, housing co-ops... |
17 Nov 2011 | #157 November - December - 2011 |
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Co-ops and the Three R's If each day is indeed Earth Day, we all must learn and relearn the new "Three Rs": reduce, reuse, recycle. Just these three words by themselves are worth repeating, if only to make... |
09 Jan 2004 | #028 May - June - 1990 |
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Co-ops Are Doing It for Themselves On Saturday, Oct. 2, Seward Cooperative Grocery & Deli in Minneapolis was the first consumer co-op to launch the Principle Six Cooperative Trade Movement (P6) to its customers and the larger... |
03 Feb 2011 | #152 January - February - 2011 |
