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When the Egg Thing Broke The risk of salmonella poisoning at poultry operations with atrocious practices led to a massive egg recall totaling over 500 million eggs and reaching more than 22 states. It is driving... |
05 Sep 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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When a Natural Foods Supermarket Arrives in Town, the Co-op Changes. "Prospects look pretty good for the co-op"Weaver Street Market Carrboro, North Carolina 10,000 sq. ft. totaI/7500retail; $3.8M 1993 sales. Target markets: urban population 40,000,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #053 July - August - 1994 |
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What’s New @ CGIN? The website owned by and operated for the benefit of food co-ops at www.cgin.coop continues to grow in scope and volume with each passing month. Thanks to the generosity of many food co-op... |
27 Dec 2008 | #111 March - April - 2004 |
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What’s New @ CGIN.coop? Your online resource, CGIN—the Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network—continues to make improvements and enhancements, in response to member input and suggestions. We hope that these changes... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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What’s New @ CGIN At our seventh annual meeting this year in Minneapolis, Cooperative Grocers’ Information Network (CGIN) members enthusiastically offered up contributions of all types. Contributions to our... |
27 Dec 2008 | #114 September - October - 2004 |
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What's Next? One hundred issues of Cooperative Grocer: it's a nice round figure, 100, but I haven't been able to attach much significance to the number of this edition. However, I have two... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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What's New at CGIN What's New @ CGIN |
07 Jan 2004 | #104 January - February - 2003 |
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What's in Community Contributions? The theme of cooperatives’ contributions to their communities is a well chosen one for activities promoting cooperatives—for more, see p. 12. But these contributions may be deeper than the usual... |
28 Mar 2006 | #114 September - October - 2004 |
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What Your Lender Looks For Putting together a loan package and securing financing from a lending institution can be a formidable task, particularly for the first-time borrower. An understanding of how lenders review (and... |
09 Jan 2004 | #016 April - May - 1988 |
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What We Pay Note: This article contains charts that are not pictured here. You can download a pdf of the article at the end of this page. This article is the second half of a report on compensation... |
20 Jan 2009 | #126 September - October - 2006 |
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What We All Can Do Better Recent issues of this magazine have carried articles detailing the failure of expansions in several cooperative food stores. Not suprisingly, given the National Cooperative Bank's commitment to... |
09 Jan 2004 | #041 July - August - 1992 |
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What to Expect from a New Point of Sale System In the scale of stressful life events, installing a new point of sale (POS) system ranks right up there with marriage and having a baby. And as with these life-changing events, there is happiness... |
22 Apr 2008 | #135 March - April - 2008 |
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What is the President's Job? What does the president ofa cooperative's board of directors do? Over the years, Puget Consumers Co-op (PCC) has developed its job description for the board president to support an effectively run... |
09 Jan 2004 | #043 November - December - 1992 |
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What Good Is A Business Plan? Editor's note: This article is the first in a series of three articles on Business Plans for co-ops. |
09 Jan 2004 | #038 January - February - 1992 |
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What Cost Ignorance? I once saw a bumper sticker that said, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance". I believe we are at a point in our industry where we are about to find out just how... |
08 Jan 2004 | #087 March - April - 2000 |
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What Co-op Employees Think How do co-op employees feel about the co-op as an employer? How satisfied are they with their compensation, their working conditions, their supervision, and their co-workers? How... |
09 Jan 2004 | #063 March - April - 1996 |
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What a Manager Needs from the Board A constructive, effective working relationship between a co-op's management and board of directors is a critical factor in the long-term success and survival of a co-op. Yet, this... |
05 Dec 2005 | #051 March - April - 1994 |
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Wendell Berry: "Local Adaptation is Work for Everybody" Author Wendell Berry gave the following brief but profound observations at "The Future of Food," a conference sponsored by the Washington Post. (For recordings of this speech, plus... |
09 May 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Weaving Again for IYC In honor of the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives, cooperative organizations in Great Britain, the United States, and Canada have sponsored publication of a new edition of Weavers... |
25 Sep 2012 | #162 September-October 2012 |
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Weaving a Cloth of Many Threads How does one introduce a new structure that merges many community co-operatives into one? Very, very carefully! |
08 Jan 2004 | #093 March - April - 2001 |
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Weaver Street Market: A modern day co-op story The story behind the creation of Weaver Street Market, a new community owned natural foods store in Carrboro, North Carolina, reads like a modern co-op fairy tale. What makes the tale so modern is... |
09 Jan 2004 | #021 February - March - 1989 |
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Weaver Street Finds Success in Recruiting and Retaining Latino Staff The Treehouse bar was filling up quickly. Employees and their friends were gathering for the Weaver Street Market annual holiday party. Lively salsa rhythms alternated with hip-hop and rock and... |
27 May 2004 | #112 May - June - 2004 |
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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 |
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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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We Are What We Sell |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
