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Carrots in the Classroom It sounds remarkably like a late-night TV ad: “In just minutes a day, you can fulfill your outreach needs, please your core members, attract mid-level consumers, educate small children, and make... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Co-op as Store Becomes Co-op as Community We can no longer (verb)_____ in isolation. Try these verbs: Learn. Vision. Plan. Invest. Be. Then try your own! Nearly three years ago, the board of directors of the Brattleboro Food Co-op... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Brand Readiness Hits the Road The word branding sometimes conjures images of bucking broncos, rodeos where livestock are marked with an indelible sign. Indeed, branding with a hot iron speaks to the rambunctious nature of... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Monitoring the Manager There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is commonly known to directors and managers. It is a dimension open to interpretation—potentially as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is... |
21 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Growing New Mexico's Co-op Economy La Montañita’s two co-op locations in Albuquerque, New Mexico will soon be joined by two additional locations in the communities of Gallup and Santa Fe. Our Nob Hill store, located at its current... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Just Food Hits the Ground Running At 7:00 p.m. on December 15, Just Food opened its doors for the first time to a waiting crowd. The members-only preview attracted hundreds of community supporters who came out in the cold to see... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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New Strategic Plan for CCC Almost four years ago, 28 financially troubled co-operatives in Atlantic Canada knew that struggling one by one they could not survive. Pitted against two fiercely competing multinational... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Murky Water From the time that Congress passed the Organic Food Production Act (OFPA) in 1990 to the present, hot-button issues have persisted. There was a brief honeymoon phase following the national... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Sustainable Seafood and the Tsunami Seafood has become a hot topic on many cooperatives’ agendas as stores struggle to determine what kind of fish is “green” or caught “sustainably” enough to sell. Some, like the Weaver Street... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Keep It Fresh! What are you in the market for?” Although this common phrase is used in every context from buying a car to a new office machine, it may be a question retailers should be asking their customers.... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Co-ops in the Present and Future Communities “Listen up! We’ve got a problem here.” A warning from ten years ago about food co-op governance and boards of directors remains pertinent.* While some co-op boards provide excellent... |
21 Jan 2009 | #117 March - April - 2005 |
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Working Together Toward Sustainable Business Like many co-ops of the 1970s, the Community Food Co-op in Bellingham, Washington, began as a small natural-foods store, idealism fueling its birth and early growth. The store outgrew its 900... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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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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Small Town, New Building Viroqua is an agricultural community with a population of 4,300, set in the unique landscape of southwestern Wisconsin. The glaciers that carved out the Great Lakes missed this region, leaving... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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National Organic Coalition Responds to Harvey Rulings The Harvey v. Veneman lawsuit and its implications for the organic community have been the focus of many meetings and discussions in recent weeks among the National Cooperative Grocers Association... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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Know where you’re going? Build cooperative capital A well-known joke warns, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there!” If a cooperative does not have its purpose clearly identified and well supported in practice, that purpose... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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Willy Street Co-op Triples Production Space at New Off-Site Kitchen There is nothing like change to make a financially sound, managerially strong, three-decade-old business feel like a tyro. Just ask at Williamson Street Grocery Co-op in Madison, Wisconsin. |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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Georgia General Assembly The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) held its first annual member General Assembly at Callaway Gardens south of Atlanta this past February. More than 90 member cooperatives were in... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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Fair Trade Cocoa: North and South In a remote area of Peru, where the far western reaches of the Amazon jungle wash up against the eastern slopes of the Andes, lies the isolated and poor, but beautiful and fertile, Rio Apurímac... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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Blooming Prairie: The Next Chapter The Blooming Prairie Cooperative Warehouse closed its books with a final distribution of monies to the membership at the end of March 2005—more than two and a half years after the sale of the... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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A Smoother Road to Deli Margins Delis with a labor problem aren’t hard to come by. Newer teams guzzle labor dollars while struggling to achieve a learning curve and a critical mass of cooperation. Until your foodservice... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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Deli Signature Flavors—Your Private Label On a day our hot bar menu promised we would be featuring spanakopita, we found ourselves short of spinach. My spirited chef quickly thought to substitute broccoli, and the florets captured more of... |
21 Jan 2009 | #124 May - June - 2006 |
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Harvey Case Tests National Organic Program The “Harvey lawsuit” is first legal test of the National Organic Program (NOP). This article is intended as an editorial. It is my appeal to the organic business community to think deeply about... |
21 Jan 2009 | #118 May - June - 2005 |
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CCMA Inspires Directors Building on last year’s theme of co-ops and democracy, CCMA 2005 focused more clearly on what is important about cooperation. “We had three keynote speakers instead of two—Gar Alperovitz, Brett... |
21 Jan 2009 | #119 July - August - 2005 |
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Demo Coordinators Add Value in Aisles A few months back, I was giving a seminar about growing sales, and the group talked about the value of a good demo program. This raised a lot of questions from the participants: How do we know... |
21 Jan 2009 | #119 July - August - 2005 |
