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Ins and Outs of Grocery Specials A good promotional program can give your store improved price image, improved margins, and increased customer satisfaction. But how do you create a good program, and how do you... |
08 Jan 2004 | #087 March - April - 2000 |
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Produce: Train, Train, Train What aspect of most produce departments is not given enough time or resources, yet can have the greatest impact on your crew's efficiency and positive attitude? If you guessed... |
08 Jan 2004 | #090 September - October - 2000 |
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Got the AM/PM Blues? Do you have the AM/PM blues in your store's produce section? I recently bought a new computer, and whenever I do something wrong that doesn't jive with... |
08 Jan 2004 | #093 March - April - 2001 |
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Arcata: Double Trouble Looking through the brochure for the CCMA conference this last June, I noticed a workshop entitled "Meeting First-Year Challenges After Expansion." My first thought was, "I could... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Weaving a Cloth of Many Threads How does one introduce a new structure that merges many community co-operatives into one? Very, very carefully! |
08 Jan 2004 | #093 March - April - 2001 |
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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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Co-ops Bowers Fund Grows "The ... Board of Directors would like to thank you and the Howard Bowers Fund for providing two full scholarships for individuals from the ...Cooperative to attend the CCMA conference this... |
08 Jan 2004 | #093 March - April - 2001 |
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Canadian Co-op Systems Thrive If any of us are to believe many of the grocery industry's best analysts these days, we should be abandoning all hope for small, regional grocery companies and counting instead on the success of... |
08 Jan 2004 | #097 November - December - 2001 |
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A Greater Velocity of Cooperation Well over three hundred directors, managers, trainers, and other cooperators met at the 2001 Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference under the theme, "... |
08 Jan 2004 | #095 July - August - 2001 |
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Are You Certifiable? By Mark Mulcahy One of the hottest topics in the retail environment is how the new Organic Rule will affect us. One of the main areas in question is the... |
08 Jan 2004 | #094 May - June - 2001 |
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Cooperative Grocers Associations There is no shortage of ideas or opportunities for collaboration among co-ops, and as the list continues to grow we are faced with the reality of structure. How can we efficiently... |
08 Jan 2004 | #094 May - June - 2001 |
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Graphic News From CGIN CGIN was pleased to unveil a new service to members in June: a photo gallery. As of this date, we have two exhibits available in our photo gallery, one on bulk food departments and... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Chequamegon: Now Twice the Co-op At first glance, Ashland, Wisconsin does not appear a likely location for a food cooperative. It is a blue collar, post-industrial town with a modern day strip of fast food... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Don't Buy That New POS System Just Yet! Don't Buy That New POS System Just Yet! By Robynn Shrader We have engaged in lively discussion via listserves, CCMA and other forums about the Point of Sale (POS) needs of the food co-op... |
08 Jan 2004 | #097 November - December - 2001 |
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Community Mercantile Meets Compressed Timeline When you last read about Community Mercantile Co-op in Lawrence, Kansas, we had just barely survived Wild Oats coming to town. The article in the May-June 1997 edition of... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Construction Delays: Curses and Blessings New Pioneer opened the doors of its second grocery store in February, 2001 in Coralville. It's a beautiful store, tightly packed with fixtures, equipment and product. It is quite... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Is Your Cutting Edge Dull? This edition's report on the merger of twenty-eight Atlantic Canada co-ops states that the new board of directors must answer those who ask, "Why should I belong, why should I be... |
08 Jan 2004 | #093 March - April - 2001 |
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Mondragon's Eroski as a Mass Retailer "If we are not economically efficient we cannot be socially effective." |
08 Jan 2004 | #097 November - December - 2001 |
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Expanding Cooperative Community Funds The Cooperative Community Fund Program, sponsored by the Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation is accepting applications for its 2001 grant cycle. TPCF will make $5,000 matching grants... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Cost Overruns and Expansion Problems Editor's note: The January-February issue of Cooperative Grocer presented an in-depth analysis of an expansion project at Mississippi Market that nearly sank the co-op. That... |
08 Jan 2004 | #094 May - June - 2001 |
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Farm Aid 2001 The 16th Anniversary Farm Aid benefit was held September 29th at the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana. Farm Aid concerts have been held since 1985 to raise money for America's... |
08 Jan 2004 | #097 November - December - 2001 |
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It's Time To Act It's Farm Bill time again. Congress will soon decide policies that will shape the nation's food and agriculture system over the next five to ten years--for better or for worse.... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Getting Ready Expansion stories from co-ops make great reading for friends and members of these businesses. The completion of such projects means more services, more member owners and more co-... |
08 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Hiring in a (Still) Tight Labor Market With the slowing of the economy, many co-ops and other natural food stores are noticing a slight easing in the difficulty of recruiting and retaining workers. Despite economic... |
08 Jan 2004 | #095 July - August - 2001 |
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Human Resources Survey Gives a Close Look at Co-op Compensation This is the first of an annual Cooperative Grocer Human Resources Survey report. The survey is designed to help co-ops evaluate their HR and compensation practices. We believe this... |
08 Jan 2004 | #093 March - April - 2001 |
