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Grocery: The Core of the Store Details, details, details. I do not know who gets credit for the phrase "retail is detail" -- I heard it for the first time last week in a training session -- but it succinctly... |
09 Jan 2004 | #058 May - June - 1995 |
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Hang Together - Or Be Hanged Separately The World of Food Co-ops: Powerful results can be achieved, as the previous edition's report on Co-op Atlantic shows, by a cooperative food system that is embedded in the local... |
09 Jan 2004 | #057 March - April - 1995 |
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Herbs / Supplements / Health and Beauty Over the past five years, our co-op has gone through tremendous growth and has had to work hard to keep up. Like many other natural foods stores, Sevananda has had to restructure,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #059 July - August - 1995 |
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Hiring A General Manager I don't want to disappoint my readers. This article is not going to tell you where to find a general manager. If I knew a source of well-qualified people eager to be managers of... |
09 Jan 2004 | #061 November - December - 1995 |
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Learning From A Failure In the aftermath of an attempt to expand which was successfully opposed by disaffected members and employees, the board of directors of the co-op in Davis, California has returned... |
09 Jan 2004 | #057 March - April - 1995 |
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Member Services, Education and Outreach Most of us who work in cooperatives are excited by the vision of an alternative form of business ownership. With open membership, democratic control and shared participation in the... |
09 Jan 2004 | #057 March - April - 1995 |
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Merchandising Management "Pardon me, mam. You look confused. Is there something I can help you find or a question I can answer?" |
09 Jan 2004 | #061 November - December - 1995 |
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You're Gonna Have to Serve Somebody In coffee shops, break rooms, and breakfast nooks across this country playground scuffles are taking place between inner children. "My upbringing was worse than yours" has replaced... |
09 Jan 2004 | #058 May - June - 1995 |
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Shopper Credit Cards and Member-Owner Benefits I just read an article in Supermarket News indicating that within a year or so it will be common for shoppers at Publix or Kroger or Winn Dixie to present "cobranded" credit cards... |
09 Jan 2004 | #060 September - October - 1995 |
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Abuse -- and Answers Themes from this edition on co-op managers, their boards of directors, and co-op members: Retail management is a complex, demanding job: juggling product,... |
09 Jan 2004 | #067 November - December - 1996 |
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Merchandising Body Care and Supplements Supplements and body care items offer unique challenges and opportunities to your store. Many co-op stores have small departments for these categories because they began as food... |
09 Jan 2004 | #066 September - October - 1996 |
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Co-op Conference: Getting Out of Hand? Milwaukee in May: over three hundred managers, directors, and others often seen in co-ops were seen here for over three thousand minutes. They enjoyed bowling, schmoozing, dancing... |
09 Jan 2004 | #065 July - August - 1996 |
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Working with Community Supported Agriculture for the Benefit of All Healthy food. Sharing expenses, risks, and profits. Active participation. Community involvement. All of these social ideals are shared by co-ops and CSAs. Our food production system... |
09 Jan 2004 | #064 May - June - 1996 |
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Planning Deli Success Overheard at the Natural Products Expo in Baltimore: Q. How do you make a small fortune? A. Take a large fortune and open a deli... |
09 Jan 2004 | #062 January - February - 1996 |
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Discounts and Death Myths die hard, and so do member discounts. In questioning this entrenched practice, reflexively equated with co-op membership in the minds of many, one never knows for certain... |
09 Jan 2004 | #063 March - April - 1996 |
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What Co-op Employees Think How do co-op employees feel about the co-op as an employer? How satisfied are they with their compensation, their working conditions, their supervision, and their co-workers? How... |
09 Jan 2004 | #063 March - April - 1996 |
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The Co-op Empowerment Stream Our cooperatives are truly empowering organizations, in origin and in practice, in vision and in mission, in theory and in action. Empowerment can be a simple and clarifying... |
09 Jan 2004 | #063 March - April - 1996 |
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Handling a Sexual Harassment Claim What you are trying to find out through an investigation is: did the alleged behavior occur and was it unwelcome. Yes, dear readers, it happens even in co-ops. |
09 Jan 2004 | #066 September - October - 1996 |
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Running a Successful HBA Department
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09 Jan 2004 | #065 July - August - 1996 |
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Assessing the Big Picture This article will explore the issues and historical precedents that are driving the massive changes in the manufacture, distribution and sales of food in the United States and... |
09 Jan 2004 | #066 September - October - 1996 |
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Financial Planning: A Context in Which to Measure Performance Planning is about thinking of what you would like to have happen and then making an educated guess about what is likely to happen in the marketplace and what you would reasonably need to do to... |
09 Jan 2004 | #066 September - October - 1996 |
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Member Discounts Did you know that giving member discounts is not one of the cooperative principles? Given how pervasive discounts are in food co-ops, one would almost expect to find support for... |
09 Jan 2004 | #063 March - April - 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 |
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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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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 |
