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Recognizing Crisis, Sharing Opportunies download pdf of article |
01 Sep 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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Patronage Dividends: A Primer Should your cooperative consider patronage dividends to owners? If you are already issuing patronage dividends, is your cooperative following the rules? If your cooperative receives patronage... |
14 Jul 2009 | #134 Jan - Feb - 2008 |
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Extreme Makeover at Sacramento Co-op Download the pdf version of this article. If the thought of losing millions of dollars, operating with no cash, watching your net worth head south of Antarctica, and becoming the poster... |
02 Jul 2009 | #137 July - August - 2008 |
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Tallahassee’s New Leaf Market Flourishes in Expanded Store /*download a pdf of this article* New Leaf Market spent five years searching for an expansion opportunity. Three promising projects fell apart in the feasibility stage. Just when the... |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Symbolic Gardens, New Faces /*download a pdf of this article* The state of the (organic) nation is not good—especially for dairy farmers. That shouldn’t be too much of a surprise since the entire economy is hurting... |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Steps to Effective Store Design Download a pdf of this article Is your co-op planning to expand, relocate or open a new store? The ideas outlined here are meant to make the process easier and more rewarding. I write from... |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Robynn Shrader Elected to Board of National Banking Co-op /*download a pdf of this article* |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Partnering with Customers Download a pdf of this article Have we seen the worst of the recession? The answer is debatable and one that will truly be known only in hindsight. What seems safe to say is that the... |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Guerilla Marketing in Isla Vista Download a pdf of this article |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Evaluating the General Manager Download a pdf of this article A board evaluating the general manager (GM) of a food co-op…now there’s a process that directors should be able to describe, defend, celebrate and appreciate... |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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CCMA Crowd Enjoys Pittsburgh, Honors Achievements /*download a pdf of this article* Under a theme of “By Art and Design: Thriving in Trying Times,” some 350 food cooperative managers, directors, and trainers from across the country gathered... |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Buying the Farm /*download a pdf of this article* |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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All Atwitter in Seattle Download a pdf of this article Marketing Matters 2009 took place at the Edgewater Hotel in Seattle, Wash., May 12–14, walking distance from the historic Pike Place Market. This annual... |
02 Jul 2009 | #143 July - August - 2009 |
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Is ‘Green' a Cooperative Principle? download pdf of article Green is all the buzz, and it’s been growing louder for some time. But just where does “green” fit into the cooperative principles? Perhaps it is the seventh... |
23 Jun 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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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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Staying Open download pdf of article Shutting your doors on customers and members doesn’t sound like a great idea. But staying open while swapping out all your shelves and most of your cases... |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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Staying Healthy in an Unhealthy Economy download pdf of article |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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Reaching Youth at coopsrock.coop download pdf of article We live in electronic ether, with the World Wide Web like an infinite canvas. It’s an excellent era for the visual arts. Opportunities and audiences abound.... |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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Mind Your Meat, Part 3 download pdf of article Co-op meat managers will do well to develop a discipline of monitoring daily invoices and daily sales for their departments. By matching daily sales revenue... |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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Letters: Co-op Capital and New Co-op Laws download pdf of article To the Editor: As a lawyer and cooperator, I fell right out of my chair upon reading attorney Joel Dahlgren’s article in the March–April Cooperative Grocer... |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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Introducing Desire for Change and Willingness to Take Risks download pdf of article In January 2006, after 21 years of work at the co-op—including seven positions, many customer complaints, and too much hair loss—I was hired as general manager of Co-... |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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Bread Program Makes the Co-op a Neighborhood Destination download pdf of article Is there anything better than warm, crusty bread? The smell, the texture, the burst of flavor when you break it open and dip it into a little bit of olive oil and a... |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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A Neighborhood Co-op Market download pdf of article Anyone could build a new store,” says Tony White, director of operations at the Hanover Co-op in Hanover, N.H. “We wanted to build a new co-op store.” He’s talking... |
20 May 2009 | #142 May - June - 2009 |
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Taking Policy Governance to Heart download pdf of article |
26 Apr 2009 | #141 March - April - 2009 |
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The Company Store and the Co-op Store download pdf of article Economic news has everyone’s attention, and retailers must adapt to recession. Success in this new environment will require nimble management. |
20 Mar 2009 | #141 March - April - 2009 |
