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Down the Drain? In May 2003, the National Organic Program announced a broadening of the scope of organic certification. Richard Mathews, at the National Organic Standards Board meeting, told attendees that... |
21 Jan 2009 | #120 September - October - 2005 |
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Avoiding Post-Expansion Burnout: The board of directors' role More than half of our food co-ops have engaged in planning and implementing an expansion project during the past three years. As demanding as these projects can be, the real challenge begins when... |
21 Jan 2009 | #120 September - October - 2005 |
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A Year Past Reorganization Glancing back at articles in Cooperative Grocer magazine a year ago, I’m struck by how much has changed in just one year since the official reorganization of the former CGA system into the... |
21 Jan 2009 | #120 September - October - 2005 |
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5 a Day: Serving Good Health We are all dedicated to serving our communities the best food possible, but I have to wonder if we are doing everything we can. I recently read these alarming statistics on the “5 a day” website,... |
21 Jan 2009 | #120 September - October - 2005 |
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Co-op Expansions Raise the Bar Every expansion is unique in some respect, but the universal truth is that building a larger facility includes taking on a bigger role in the community. More and more food co-ops are remodeling,... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Cooperative Community Funds Steve Stroup, co-op and community development coordinator at Bloomington Cooperative Services (Bloomingfoods) in Bloomington, Indi., is busy working on a presentation to the Bloomingfoods board... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Farm Aid 2005 On Sept. 17, with Farm Aid 2005 ready to go the next day, the Chicago Tribune ran a story claiming that Farm Aid does not apply significant funds to really help family farmers. The folks at Farm... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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General Assembly: Colorado In late September, nearly 100 co-op managers and organizational staff held sessions for the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA). Regional and special interest groups, the General... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Internal Service Why spend extra time, energy, and money on customer service enhancement? For most stores, the decision stems from poor interactions between customers and staff. Like when a deli worker tells a new... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Where Are You Growing? Let’s say you have your labor in line, your margin has been consistent, and your sales have been steady. Now is a good time to review the horizon and set sails for the growth ahead. A couple of... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Ruling Prompts Controversy Democracy and the high price of organic food |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Building the Future The COOP group of retailers in Italy is the largest and fastest growing co-op sector in Europe. For U.S. food co-ops, how COOP, a confederation of consumer co-ops, became the market leader in... |
21 Jan 2009 | #121 November - December - 2005 |
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Small Co-op Realizes Larger Vision Eight years ago, the Lexington Co-op (Buffalo, N.Y.) was a hole in the wall doing $800,000 out of 1,200 square feet of well-worn retail space. Our equipment was ready to be replaced, our floor was... |
20 Jan 2009 | #122 January - February - 2006 |
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Outpost Co-op Opens Third Milwaukee-Area Store Kinnickinnic Avenue runs a diagonal path through the Bay View neighborhood of south side Milwaukee, Wis. It is an urban trek through an older, established, working-class community that is fast... |
20 Jan 2009 | #122 January - February - 2006 |
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Leveraging Benefits for Producer, Consumer Co-ops New markets, increased income for farm families, more children going to school, a new generation of ranchers coming back to the farm: all come in part from co-ops doing business with co-ops. |
20 Jan 2009 | #122 January - February - 2006 |
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Future of Food—Future of Fun Organic agriculture faces a bigger threat than the potential for weakened standards on ingredients: contamination from genetically engineered crops. I recently viewed for a second time the film, “... |
20 Jan 2009 | #122 January - February - 2006 |
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Co-ops to Classrooms Ask yourself this: How many of your local schools are using your co-op as a source of food and food education? If you would like to see that number increase, read on. As our nation... |
20 Jan 2009 | #122 January - February - 2006 |
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Board Orientation, Training, and Education We all want to leave the co-op better than it was when we came on the board,” said Rachel Soffer, board president of Lakewinds Natural Foods, with stores in the Minneapolis suburbs of Anoka,... |
20 Jan 2009 | #122 January - February - 2006 |
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Store Audits Reveal Benefits of Peer Review In some circles the word “audit” is considered a four-letter word—tax, financial, and operational audits are things to be feared and avoided. But since the early 1990s, co-ops in the Midwest—now a... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Patience and Perseverance Yield Success For a number of years the board and management of Wild Oats Cooperative, in the rural northwest corner of Massachusetts, grappled with the need for store expansion. Our board of directors has... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Opportunity Knocks in Moscow Just over a year ago the Moscow Food Co-op board of directors gathered for our annual planning retreat. Moscow is a small college town of about 21,000 located in the rolling wheat fields of the... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Making It Real In our busy cooperator lives, does taking the time to read the articles in Cooperative Grocer really have practical applications on the floor or in our services to owners and customers? ... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Growing Local and National Cooperative Communities The National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) ended 2005 with—what else—lots of change! This seems to be our organizational hallmark. However, despite the challenges of a rapidly growing... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Background: Lake Superior Duluth, Minnesota: The night before we opened our new Whole Foods Cooperative location, we hosted a Premiere Party/35th Anniversary Party for our members. When the front doors opened, the sound of... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Bigger Is Better Some people thought we were crazy to go from a 4,000-square-foot store to an 18,000-square-foot store. It definitely took a lot of courage from all levels of our organization. We just knew we... |
20 Jan 2009 | #127 November - December - 2006 |
