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Small Co-op, Big Leap! After 28 years in the same location, Bluff Country Co-op's members made a large leap. The results: a beautiful new store and renewed belief in how a small co-op can do big things... |
08 Jan 2004 | #094 May - June - 2001 |
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Small Farms Create More Jobs Gene Logsdon is a wise and delightful writer on food and farming. Author of “The Contrary Farmer” essay collection, he also maintains a website under that name: http://www.thecontraryfarmer.com... |
14 Sep 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Small Town Success from Building Membership The small community of Barneveld, Wisconsin (population 1,100), opened its grocery cooperative, Harvest Market Cooperative, on July 10, 2004 and had its grand opening on July 24. The store has a... |
27 Oct 2004 | #114 September - October - 2004 |
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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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Smile, Please, You're in Front of a Customer About a year ago, our major competitor held a focus group with some of its customers. We learned from several participants—longtime members of our co-op—that many people in the group told the... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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Social Capital and Membership Social capital, as distinct from private capital, is a philosophical foundation of cooperatives and a kind of ultimate realization of our efforts. Social capital is what is owned... |
20 Mar 2005 | #068 January - February - 1997 |
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Social Justice and New Food Co-ops Jobs and access to food are urgent needs in many communities. Two new and thought-provoking articles examine how social justice organizations are taking innovative paths to new co-op formation,... |
18 Aug 2011 | • Endcap Articles |
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Social Justice in Agriculture Forum I recently had an opportunity to represent food co-ops at a forum for Social Justice in Agriculture, along with representatives from organizations representing farm workers, fair-trade initiatives... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Sourcing with Integrity Since beginning as a two-person operation in 1976, Frontier Natural Products Co-op has specialized in natural and organic products. The business was originally structured as a cooperative that... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Soy Production Boosts Co-op Back in the days when board meetings were held in the General Manager’s sauna, Oryana Natural Foods Market—a community co-op since 1973—experienced the birth of its tofu-making operations. |
19 Jan 2009 | #133 November - December - 2007 |
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Space Case: Make It Count Look down -- you may be standing on a gold mine. Then again, your facility may be just a black hole you throw money down once a month. |
08 Jan 2004 | #082 May - June - 1999 |
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SPECIAL REPORT: Cooperative Grocers Associations By Robynn Shrader |
08 Jan 2004 | #088 May - June - 2000 |
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St. Peter Food Co-op Chooses Flexibility in Reincorporation St. Peter Food Co-op in Minnesota reincorporated under Minn. 308b statutes, one of the first state limited cooperative associations (LCA) options, in 2007. They decided to make the change in... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Staff Education Prevents A Generation Gap A key Rochdale cooperative principle is continuing education about cooperatives. It is ironic that co-ops often forget to apply this principle to their own employees. There are many... |
09 Jan 2004 | #049 November - December - 1993 |
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Staff Teams Build Effective Solutions Introducing forms of participation to a traditional management hierarchy was the goal; a quality improvement process was the method. The history of Hanover Consumer Co-op and my... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Stalking the Organic Asparagus Springtime is upon us, and with it comes fresh, organic produce from an increasing number of local growers. It is a benefit to these growers as well as to retailers and consumers for this... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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Startup Co-op Conference Shares Resources Indiana Cooperative Development Center (ICDC), a nonprofit agency supported by funding from the USDA, and Bloomingfoods Market and Deli recently partnered to host “Up and Coming, Up and Running... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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Startup Technology Choices Been called by a new food co-op for advice recently? The number of startup food cooperatives is swelling, and with it, the ranks of cooperative advisors. |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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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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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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Step by Step, Creating a Cooperative Economy From my vantage point, too many dollars flow out of cooperatively owned businesses into investor-held businesses, either in the form of purchases or investments. Is your cooperative... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Steps to a Solidarity Economy Cooperation among cooperatives is a basic principle of the co-op movement. In Kansas, New York, and Massachusetts, food co-ops are applying this concept in a creative way: providing deep and solid... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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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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Steps to Sustainability: It Takes Vision The founders of Ashland Food Co-op (AFC) in 1972 were guided by the ethics of a budding environmental movement. The impulse to operate a not-for-profit business in ways that honor and nurture... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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Sticker Shock and Accurate Rings I was standing in a produce department the other day stickering what seemed like thousands of tomatoes with little green stickers. A customer walked up and said, “Why do you do that? I hate... |
19 Jan 2009 | #133 November - December - 2007 |
