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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 |
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Still Drinking Policy Governance Lite Download a complete pdf version of this article. Several years ago, the Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative board of directors implemented changes to its use of the Policy Governance model. The... |
19 Jan 2009 | #137 July - August - 2008 |
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Store Audits Reveal Benefits of Peer Review In some circles the word “audit” is considered a four-letter word—tax, financial, and operational audits are things to be feared and avoided. But since the early 1990s, co-ops in the Midwest—now a... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Store Security A previous article dealt with the threat to store security once the threat was in the door (Cooperative Grocer #12-13, Aug-Nov. 1987). Unfortunately, shoplifting and employee or vendor theft are... |
09 Jan 2004 | #015 February - March - 1988 |
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Store Security: Shoplifting Prevention and Internal Theft Shoplifting at the co-op! That just doesn't make sense. Why would anyone want to steal from this place? It's like stealing from yourself! That's the kind of reaction I often encounter when... |
09 Jan 2004 | #025 November - December - 1989 |
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Stormy Weather in California The past year has been a difficult one for Associated Cooperatives Inc. (ACI), the wholesale in Richmond, California, and for some of its member retail co-ops. |
09 Jan 2004 | #004 April - May - 1986 |
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Streamlined System Multiplies Members, Member Investment and Community Contributions Two years ago, North Coast Co-op, operating two stores in Arcata and Eureka (California), streamlined its membership program. At the time, no one dreamed that this change would... |
08 Jan 2004 | #082 May - June - 1999 |
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Strong Performance But Can We Sustain It? (Retail Operations Survey) Strong Performance But Can We Sustain It? (pdf 262kb) (includes charts, data and methodology not found on this web page version)
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05 Apr 2010 | #125 July - August - 2006 |
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Strong Results, Debatable Future: 2001 Retail Operations Survey
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07 Jan 2004 | #101 July - August - 2002 |
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Strong Training in Operations: Important for Strong Co-ops! Here is a solution for when you have poor or no retail training materials! The Basic Operations Training Resources are available for natural food retail cooperatives to use in... |
08 Jan 2004 | #080 January - February - 1999 |
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Stronger Together As co-op insiders, when we talk about what we do best and how we want to be perceived by our shoppers, owners and neighbors, we use words like local, community, sustainable, responsive... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Stronger Together Works in HR, Too When working with Outpost Co-op managers on a particularly sticky employee issue, I often hear, "I’m glad I don’t have your job!" Although I may think the same thing of... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Suggestion Box: As Good As a Ballot Box It's not a computer, it's not a new touch-tone phone system. It's not even fancy. But it can do a lot for communications within your co-op-and it's cheap to operate. It's a... |
09 Jan 2004 | #008 December - January - 1987 |
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Support our Success: National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) and the regional associations that formed in the 1990s have always been, at a fundamental level, about store improvement and the improvement of our... |
19 Jan 2009 | #131 July - August - 2007 |
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Supporting Small Farms, Teaching Organic Agriculture Ocean Beach People's Organic Food Co-op began its partnerships with small organic farms in 1998 when it sponsored a farmer to attend The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems at the... |
25 Apr 2011 | #154 May - June - 2011 |
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Supporting the Bowers Fund and Co-op Emergency Fund Thanks to food co-ops for your support of the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) Howard Bowers Fund in 2010! Education and training are essential for thriving co-ops, and the Bowers... |
17 Mar 2011 | #153 March - April - 2011 |
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Survey Highlights Gaps in Manager Compensation This edition’s report on general manager compensation provides some striking data highlighting food cooperative practices. A few survey questions for co-op managers provoked a broad range of... |
20 Jan 2009 | #124 May - June - 2006 |
