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Protecting Member Loan Programs As readers may recall, the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a ruling specifically about co-op loan programs. In the case, Reves v. Ernst and Young, the court determined that some loans by... |
09 Jan 2004 | #035 July - August - 1991 |
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Exemption Sought For Co-op Member Labor Programs [Shady DeJong and Kathleen Campbell from La Montanita Food Co-op contributed the following report.] When La Montanita Food Co-op was told by the Labor Department that our participating... |
09 Jan 2004 | #035 July - August - 1991 |
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Creating a Co-op Niche Who are we marketing to? Who is our primary competition? What is the demographic profile of the population that is inclined to shop in our stores? What is our buying power in relation to other... |
09 Jan 2004 | #036 September - October - 1991 |
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A "Non-Working, Non-Worrying" Member "Non-Working, Non-Worrying" member Paul Cultrera responds to the article about exemptions for co-op member labor programs in the July-August 1991 issue of Cooperative Grocer by Shady DeJong and... |
09 Jan 2004 | #036 September - October - 1991 |
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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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Closing Mountain Warehouse Mountain Warehouse was a cooperatively owned distributor of natural foods, with 1990 sales of $2.2 million. Located in Durham, North Carolina, it serviced accounts throughout North Carolina and... |
09 Jan 2004 | #037 November - December - 1991 |
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Disappearing Distributors This edition's stories on the demise of two cooperative distributors, Mountain Warehouse and WholeFood Express, prompt some further reflections on the state of food cooperative retails and their... |
09 Jan 2004 | #037 November - December - 1991 |
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Firing: When Worse Comes to Worse Firing is an emotional business for the manager and for the employee. There's no denying that losing a job can be a shattering event in someone's life. The person responsible for the decision to... |
09 Jan 2004 | #037 November - December - 1991 |
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Co-op Distributors Close: Mountain Warehouse and WholeFood Express Two more cooperative food distributors disappeared in 1991: Mountain Warehouse, a small operation formerly serving a large Southeast region -- that story is related in the... |
09 Jan 2004 | #037 November - December - 1991 |
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Making an End of It at New Pioneer Editor's note: The reality of business development is that our best laid plans are often led astray. When that happens in a cooperative, after making sure that everything that... |
09 Jan 2004 | #037 November - December - 1991 |
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Babyseat Rental Program at Hanover Co-op As you climb the stairs to the offices above the food store at the Hanover Co-op, you can't help but notice all the babyseats stacked to the ceiling on the adjacent ledge. People comment on them... |
09 Jan 2004 | #038 January - February - 1992 |
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Co-op Principle 5: Continuous Education One reason cooperatives need to educate about cooperatives is that assumptions about how businesses operate are not always appropriate to cooperatives. If co-op members, officers, and employees... |
09 Jan 2004 | #038 January - February - 1992 |
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Berkeley: Lessons for Co-op Leaders Editor's note: I published several thousand words of my own on the decline of the Berkeley Co-op and related lessons, three years ago in Cooperative Grocer #18 & 19 (1988).... |
09 Jan 2004 | #038 January - February - 1992 |
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What Good Is A Business Plan? Editor's note: This article is the first in a series of three articles on Business Plans for co-ops. |
09 Jan 2004 | #038 January - February - 1992 |
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Magic Mill Gains Co-op Market Share
Editor's Note: In recent years, there has been much growth in existing food co-ops, but only a few new retails. In some of these startup ventures, leadership by... |
09 Jan 2004 | #038 January - February - 1992 |
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Does Practice Reflect Purpose? Why is your co-op structured as a co-op? How important is your co-op structure to your daily operations? How much of a role does your co-op structure play in your marketing? your employee training... |
09 Jan 2004 | #039 March - April - 1992 |
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Tucson Co-ops Recover After fifteen months of debt-heavy operations, Tucson's Food Conspiracy Cooperative closed its 24,000 square foot natural foods supermarket in mid-December. Hoping to save its original store, now... |
09 Jan 2004 | #039 March - April - 1992 |
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Mississippi Market Manages Changes Mississippi Market operated for twelve years out of a rented building with 1,200 square feet of retail and 1,500 square feet of basement and backroom storage. We ultimately did $1,890,000 in... |
09 Jan 2004 | #039 March - April - 1992 |
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Employee Attitude Surveys It's a situation that many boards have wrestled with: how to measure and monitor an organization's performance beyond just the numbers from financial statements. There are many techniques for... |
17 Dec 2008 | #040 May - June - 1992 |
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Business Plans: Doing the Groundwork This article Is the second in a series on business planning, based on the how-to manual Business Planning for Cooperatives, by Cooperative Development Services. The first article, "What Good is a... |
09 Jan 2004 | #040 May - June - 1992 |
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Michigan Federation Folds, Business Sold to North Farm Members of the Michigan Federation of Food Co-ops voted on February 29 to consolidate with North Farm Co-op, based in Madison, Wisconsin. The Ann Arbor warehouse has been closed and the federation... |
09 Jan 2004 | #040 May - June - 1992 |
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Co-ops and Environmental Action We have much that we can be proud of. Co-ops in numerous towns and cities are active players in their community's environmental affairs. Historically, some of the first basic consumer protection... |
09 Jan 2004 | #040 May - June - 1992 |
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Bellingham Co-op: Moving Down The Relocation Road This is the story of a relocation project with more lives than a cat. It has been near death many times and has come within a whisker of being a disaster more times than I care to remember. As I... |
09 Jan 2004 | #040 May - June - 1992 |
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Less is More Price, profitability and productivity probably weigh heaviest on the decisions made by a grocery store manager. The effectiveness and relationship of the "three Ps" can mean the difference between... |
09 Jan 2004 | #041 July - August - 1992 |
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What We All Can Do Better Recent issues of this magazine have carried articles detailing the failure of expansions in several cooperative food stores. Not suprisingly, given the National Cooperative Bank's commitment to... |
09 Jan 2004 | #041 July - August - 1992 |
