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The BIG Scoop They don't call me "Binhead" for nothing -- I believe in Bulk! Unfortunately, word on the aisles is that Bulk has reached its plateau -- sales have flattened -- interest is dying... |
09 Jan 2004 | #079 November - December - 1998 |
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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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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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Translating Operations into Financial Statements Good systems show themselves by not showing themselves at all. In a well run store, product, people, and purchases flow in and out in a seemingly effortless ebb and flow. Only from... |
09 Jan 2004 | #069 March - April - 1997 |
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Salaried or Hourly? Rather than "salaried or hourly," the question actually should be, "Exempt or non-exempt? The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that employees subject to it (i.e., non-exempt... |
09 Jan 2004 | #070 May - June - 1997 |
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Dealing With Risk Like the 2,000 pound gorilla at a small party, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, risk is always present, just standing there at the pretzel bowl waiting for you to turn around.... |
09 Jan 2004 | #068 January - February - 1997 |
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Pay for Performance Are any of these scenarios familiar to you? The co-op has just hired a new general manager with the experience and skills needed to help the co-op realize its... |
09 Jan 2004 | #070 May - June - 1997 |
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Food Co-ops Can benefit From National Society of Accountants for Cooperatives Two years ago, I attended my first Consumer Cooperative Management Association in Sacramento. The event was educational and eye-opening. But when I started looking to network with... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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More on Mission and Capital Readers have responded positively to recent editorials on social capital. In this column I will review our co-op mission, the treatment of capital, and other co-op practices. ... |
09 Jan 2004 | #070 May - June - 1997 |
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Mission or Missin' Statement My previous column discussed our need to recognize a cooperative as something larger and more enduring than our individual stake in it, greater also than the sum of present members... |
09 Jan 2004 | #069 March - April - 1997 |
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Review: Making Membership Meaningful In 1995, an international consortium of co-op academics and practitioners collaborated on a book called Making Membership Meaningful: Participatory Democracy in Co-operatives.... |
09 Jan 2004 | #072 September - October - 1997 |
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Meeting Preparation: Do your board meetings have any of these features? |
09 Jan 2004 | #068 January - February - 1997 |
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Linking Buying Clubs and Retails for Co-op Development
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09 Jan 2004 | #068 January - February - 1997 |
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Can We Help Build Inner City Co-ops? As a staff and a member of consumer co-ops for nearly twenty years, and as a community development lender for the past three, I have observed a need and desire in the consumer co-... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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Knowing Your Customers: "About 41% of retailers have, or are in the process of developing, databases that will enable them to track consumer purchases, as well as behavioral and demographic data." Progressive Grocer,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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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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25 Years: Continuing Contributors This year's co-op conference gave an unusual "milestone" award by recognizing a generation of food co-ops: ones that have recently reached age twenty-five. In those years, what has... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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CCMA Highlights Needs and Spirit At the Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference held in May, the theme was "two-stepping between evolution and extinction" -- highlighting food co-ops' need to... |
09 Jan 2004 | #071 July - August - 1997 |
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Surveying Members on Membership Increasing numbers of co-ops conduct an annual survey of members or of shoppers in the store. Often these surveys are directed at evaluating the core business operation: How far do... |
09 Jan 2004 | #067 November - December - 1996 |
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Seven Steps to a Successful Membership Drive The success or failure of your next membership drive hinges on more than signage, brochures and the free thing you give away to every new member who joins. ... |
09 Jan 2004 | #064 May - June - 1996 |
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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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Produce Department Review The produce department, like any other department in a co-op, is there for the co-op's members. Serving them should be our major focus. Starting with this... |
09 Jan 2004 | #064 May - June - 1996 |
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Cooperative Principles Updated "We have to do it this way. After all, that's what makes us a co-op." "We only sell natural and organic foods. That's a fundamental principle of... |
09 Jan 2004 | #062 January - February - 1996 |
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Old and New Times like the present help me appreciate anew the place of cooperaives. But then, this nation has always been dominated by private capital. Solidarity in public and private life and concern... |
09 Jan 2004 | #066 September - October - 1996 |
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Niche Glitch Themes linking this edition's feature co-op and the results from our annual survey: Continuity with previous generations of cooperatives is precious... |
09 Jan 2004 | #065 July - August - 1996 |
