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Sharpening Our Focus Historically, Wheatsville was a co-op that hung on and survived in the Austin, Texas, market, with some years of losses mixed with some years of gains. Several years ago, we decided that we wanted... |
19 Jan 2009 | #131 July - August - 2007 |
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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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Should Co-op Staff Serve As Directors? The question of whether co~op employees should be allowed to serve as voting members of a board of directors is one that many food co-ops give serious consideration to and wrestle with. For co-ops... |
09 Jan 2004 | #017 June - July - 1988 |
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Should Co-op Staff Serve As Directors? Mary manages the co-op's produce department by day. Then, on a regular basis she joins other co-op board members to meet and review management's reports and recommendations. Mary... |
09 Jan 2004 | #044 January - February - 1993 |
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Should Food Retailers Promote Community Supported Agriculture? Spring has arrived, and with it the promise of a new growing season replete with fresh, local, and organic fruits and vegetables. In Michigan, we’ve had a long winter diet of root vegetables and... |
20 Jan 2009 | #130 May - June - 2007 |
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Should Your Store Be Planning On Scanning? P0S scanning is only one component of a possible fully "computerized co-op." Paul Cultrera does a fine job describing a more complete system as envisioned at the Cape Ann Food Co-... |
09 Jan 2004 | #052 May - June - 1994 |
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Sign-Making Solutions: A Review Have you ever tried to sell a product without a sign? If you have, you know how important signage is to grocery sales. With upwards of 70 percent of all purchases being unplanned, good signage on... |
17 Nov 2011 | #157 November - December - 2011 |
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Signs Sell: Once again an old adage holds true: "signs sell." Studies show that well-signed displays can increase sales by up to 400 percent! Signs can do a whole lot more: they can inform, direct, and... |
09 Jan 2004 | #016 April - May - 1988 |
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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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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 |
