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A Recipe for Good Board Meetings Here it comes again: the monthly board meeting. You’ve figured out child care for the fourth Monday of every month, that version of parental Olympics where Mom runs out the door as Dad runs in. A... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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A Faster Path to the Bottom Line Wheatsfield Co-op didn’t want to reinvent the wheel. The Ames, Iowa, co-op was expanding and working through the plethora of challenges and decisions such projects present. The staff leveraged... |
31 Dec 2009 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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More on Payment Card Security Compliance All merchants, including consumer cooperatives, must and should meet the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) if they wish to accept credit cards as a form of payment. At... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Organic Advocates Optimistic About New Appointments Along with new members of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the National Cooperative Grocers Association and its partners in the National Organic Coalition (NOC) recently celebrated the... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Menus Get the Message Out The Davis (Calif.) Food Co-op has long held a strategy of winning by becoming the “authority on everything.” We’ve spent literally years cultivating that strategy, answering countless peculiar... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Common Ground Food Co-op In the fall of 2007, an envelope landed on my desk at Common Ground Food Co-op (Champaign-Urbana, Ill.). Inside was a letter saying that our landlord of 33 years would be selling the building the... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Organic Advocates Optimistic About New Appointments Along with new members of the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the National Cooperative Grocers Association and its partners in the National Organic Coalition (NOC) recently celebrated the... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Asking Powerful Questions “A vital question, a creative question, rivets our attention. All the creative power of our minds is focused on the question. Knowledge emerges in response to these compelling questions.... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Bringing Low-Income Shoppers into the Co-op Once upon a time in Burlington, Vt., on the shores of Lake Champlain, the downtown grocery store went belly up. In dismay, city leaders asked for proposals for another store to come in and take... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Tipping the Scales for Local Foods Food co-ops play a pivotal role in nearly every local foods initiative I work with; they have been doing so for 40 years. |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Michael Moore on Co-ops, Paul Hazen on Public Policy Workplace democracy and worker-owned cooperatives are strongly recommended in Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Capitalism: A Love Story.” One such business, Alvarado Street Bakery, is... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Certified Organic Personal Care Recommended In September, the cause of extending organic certification standards to personal care items—soaps, lotions, and the like—got a significant boost from the Certification, Accreditation, and... |
18 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Park Slope Food Co-op Is an Energy Star download pdf of article |
27 Oct 2009 | #141 March - April - 2009 |
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Global Warming on Your Plate: It's more than "food miles" -- it's "food energy" KEY POINTS: *Buying local is very important, primarily for reinforcing the local economy. *Reducing food miles does not reduce energy use as much as changing food production and consumption in two... |
10 Oct 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Celebrating Excellence and New Co-ops /*download a pdf of this article* With gratitude and pride, our cooperative associations regularly recognize leading contributors to our improvement and success. We also have new food co-... |
06 Oct 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Mississippi Market Opens: Triples size of its second store Mississippi Market, St. Paul’s premier natural and organic food cooperative with more than 9,000 member-owners, opened a new store at in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday, July 16. At 13,345 square... |
24 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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An Evolution in the Coffee Aisle About 20 years ago, the fair trade movement took root in consumer food cooperatives around the country, primarily through the introduction of fair trade coffee. Led by Equal Exchange, the first “... |
24 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Fair Trade Roundup Past issues of Cooperative Grocer have reported the growing movement for Domestic Fair Trade. Here, we are excited to update readers on the activities of the Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA... |
24 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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We Are What We Sell |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Thinking Strategically When we look at the future for the co-op, what do we see and how do we express it? These are vital questions for board members to ask because it’s the board’s job to articulate outcomes... |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Sharing the Wealth of Knowledge |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Remembering Ivano Berberini |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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PCC Cooks For 26 years PCC Natural Markets has offered shoppers the opportunity to learn about the natural foods sold by the Seattle-based co-op through its PCC Cooks program. From its very low-tech... |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Cooperating for Health Care As the Obama administration undertakes the process of reforming our health care system, a critical piece of the puzzle will be to expand coverage among small businesses and their employees. |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
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Championing the Organic Label Organic has received a lot of bad press lately, from the Senate investigation on liquid nitrogen fertilizers to a Washington Post article questioning the “purity” of the organic label, published... |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
