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Salaried or Hourly? Rather than "salaried or hourly," the question actually should be, "Exempt or non-exempt? The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that employees subject to it (i.e., non-exempt... |
09 Jan 2004 | #070 May - June - 1997 |
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Sales and Labor in 20 Retail Food Co-ops Introduction Having members of a retail food cooperative contribute labor toward the operation of their store is one of those practices that is wholly unnecessary or even undesirable in the eyes of... |
09 Jan 2004 | #001 October - November - 1985 |
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Sales Tax: Not Simple I joined the French Broad Food Co-op team in 2009. Sales had been plummeting for five consecutive years. We were broke, losing millions in sales to new competitors, having a hard time keeping... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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Sampling Equals Sales and Satisfaction Do you sample in your produce department? Not just occasionally, when a customer asks or when you think of it, but on a regular basis? Why not? Too busy? Too busy to increase your sales? ... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Saving One Farm at a Time Like most food cooperatives, the Sacramento and Davis co-ops have longstanding and strong commitments to purchasing from and supporting local farms. And they realize that local farmland is under... |
25 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
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Scared Chipless Back in 2004, USDA began to implement the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). According to NAIS, this program is: |
20 Jan 2009 | #128 January - February - 2007 |
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Securities Laws And Co-op Member Loan Programs Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that will have dramatic implications for co-op member loan programs. No longer may loan solicitations be casually and informally conducted... |
09 Jan 2004 | #033 March - April - 1991 |
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Seeking Cooperative Alignment and Identity This mid-year edition is highlighted by annual reports on food co-op practice and prospects. Directors and managers from many of these co-ops recently met at their leading national training and... |
20 Jan 2009 | #125 July - August - 2006 |
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Seeking Local Organic Producers As worldwide availability of organic products hits new heights, there also is a strong consumer trend toward supporting local food systems. In some areas of the country organic farmers who sell... |
08 Jun 2004 | #112 May - June - 2004 |
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Seeking Sustainability, Planning for Disaster Part 1: Building on what we have |
19 Jan 2009 | #132 September - October - 2007 |
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Seeking Sustainability, Planning for Disaster Part 1: Milestones and Mission Each year, at the Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference, milestone awards celebrate new food cooperatives along as well as those that... |
19 Jan 2009 | #131 July - August - 2007 |
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Seize the Moment “I’m very impressed with your experience and your attitude, Yung Wannabee, and I think you’ll find yourself an easy fit as a member of our prepared foods team. I’m happy to extend you an offer at... |
27 May 2004 | #112 May - June - 2004 |
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Self-Help Wanted Spend most earnings now, or invest more in the future—what is the proper balance? We can see, in the current financial mess, some consequences of imbalance. For the sake of immediate benefits, the... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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Selling Clothing and Predicting the Future The store was packed with babies, toddlers, mommies, and daddies. Organic juice boxes and cookies helped keep the mini-mob under control, and conversations about potty training outnumbered other... |
19 Jan 2009 | #133 November - December - 2007 |
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Senate Considers Deep Cuts to Organic and Sustainable Ag The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture is urging immediate pressure on U.S. Senators to prevent deep cuts to funding of programs for organic and sustainable farming and food production... |
04 Mar 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Setting a Process for General Manager Compensation This article has charts and tables that are available here in pdf form What are some words that come to mind when you think of general manager compensation? Uncomfortable. Problematic. Crazy... |
19 Jan 2009 | #134 Jan - Feb - 2008 |
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Setting High Standards in Training A few months back, I picked up a copy of Business Week, and the whole magazine was about how to find and keep the next group of stars for your business. All the articles talked about something... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Setting Up The New Meat Department Since the reason for establishing a retail meat department is to expand the line of product and provide additional service to the customer while enjoying increased sales and gross profit, careful... |
09 Jan 2004 | #037 November - December - 1991 |
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Seven Steps to a Successful Membership Drive The success or failure of your next membership drive hinges on more than signage, brochures and the free thing you give away to every new member who joins. ... |
09 Jan 2004 | #064 May - June - 1996 |
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Seven Steps to Re-energize Your Cooperative Culture "Culture is to an organization what water is to a fish—it is the environment that exists all around us." If I asked you to describe the culture of your food co-op in... |
03 Jun 2013 | #166 May-June 2013 |
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Seward Co-op Opens New Store in Minneapolis download pdf of article In Minneapolis, Minn., Seward Co-op opened its new 25,600-square-foot facility Jan. 8, 2009. The $10.5 million project relocated the store seven blocks east of its... |
03 Mar 2009 | #141 March - April - 2009 |
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Share the Pain, Share the Gain: Co-ops network to improve Point of Sale Changes to POS systems are inevitably stressful, as Liz McMann notes in her article. Anticipating such challenges, Andrea Becker, who provides technical support at Bloomingfoods in Bloomington,... |
24 Apr 2008 | #135 March - April - 2008 |
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Shared Co-op Values, Multiple Stakeholders Are cooperatives ready for new challenges? They are receiving greater attention as a democratic means for addressing social and economic needs—and those needs are growing. Along with record levels... |
05 Jan 2010 | #146 January - February - 2010 |
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Sharing Passions and Expertise with Startups On a Monday in May, I addressed a room crowded with attentive listeners who had come to hear how to add an income-generating activity to their food co-op organizing efforts. They were 127 people... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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Sharing the Wealth of Knowledge |
22 Sep 2009 | #144 September - October - 2009 |
