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Asking Powerful Questions “A vital question, a creative question, rivets our attention. All the creative power of our minds is focused on the question. Knowledge emerges in response to these compelling questions.... |
19 Nov 2009 | #145 November - December - 2009 |
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Assessing Board Performance Without a doubt, a co-op's board of directors plays a key role in the co-op's success. Yet too often, an assessment of the board's performance in that role is overlooked or... |
09 Jan 2004 | #060 September - October - 1995 |
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Assessing Management Performance The good news is: you're not alone. Many co-op boards of directors and managers find the prospect of a formal management performance appraisal very uncomfortable to face. The reasons cited... |
09 Jan 2004 | #009 February - March - 1987 |
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Assessing the Adequacy of Your Co-op's Bylaws Most food co-ops -- from the smallest to the very largest, including wholesale operations -- don't realize how bad their bylaws really are. Many small retails have bylaws that were originally... |
09 Jan 2004 | #019 October - November - 1988 |
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Assessing the Big Picture This article will explore the issues and historical precedents that are driving the massive changes in the manufacture, distribution and sales of food in the United States and... |
09 Jan 2004 | #066 September - October - 1996 |
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At 50, Japanese Co-ops Emphasize Education and Food Safety Japan continues to experience a prolonged recession, so much so that some sectors of the economy, including grocery, are actually experiencing deflation. According to a NYT report (9/25),... |
08 Jan 2004 | #097 November - December - 2001 |
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Atlantic Canada Merger After Eighteen Months The fall 2000 merger of twenty-eight of Atlantic Canada's independent co-operative societies, with thirty-three stores and mounting losses, was a shotgun wedding. The choice facing each co-... |
07 Jan 2004 | #101 July - August - 2002 |
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Atlantic Canadian Co-ops Meet Globalization, Plan Merger Thirty years ago, Atlantic Canadians got their groceries from family grocery stores supplied by family owned wholesalers and the co-operative store. The co-operatives had emerged to protect people... |
08 Jan 2004 | #091 November - December - 2000 |
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Avoiding Post-Expansion Burnout You’ve been working on this project for more than two years. After overcoming every obstacle, putting up with countless delays, raising hundreds of thousands in financing, moving all your... |
21 Jan 2009 | #116 January - February - 2005 |
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Avoiding Post-Expansion Burnout: The board of directors' role More than half of our food co-ops have engaged in planning and implementing an expansion project during the past three years. As demanding as these projects can be, the real challenge begins when... |
21 Jan 2009 | #120 September - October - 2005 |
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Awards at CCMA for Cooperative Service and Retail Excellence The annual award for Cooperative Service went to Amber and Nicole Sallaberry of Reno, Nev., and the Cooperative Excellence Award went to Seward Co-op in Minneapolis, Minn. Co-ops with milestone... |
28 Aug 2011 | #155 July - August - 2011 |
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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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Back on Our Feet Just over a year ago, Durango Natural Foods was in trouble. Our small Colorado store was 60 days past due with our primary supplier; shelves were bare, the shopping experience was unappealing, and... |
19 Jan 2009 | #136 may - june - 2008 |
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Background: Lake Superior Duluth, Minnesota: The night before we opened our new Whole Foods Cooperative location, we hosted a Premiere Party/35th Anniversary Party for our members. When the front doors opened, the sound of... |
20 Jan 2009 | #123 March - April - 2006 |
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Bad for Bees: EPA Bows to Bayer Tom Philpot at Grist, www.grist.org, continues to contribute excellent reporting on food and pharm corporations. These businesses and their federal regulators regularly undermine public... |
13 Dec 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Bag It!
There are always lots of reasons not to take a risk—even when it’s the right thing to do. The Moscow Food Co-op (Moscow, Ida.) recently took one when we launched a month-long campaign... |
05 Oct 2011 | #156 September - October - 2011 |
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Balance Sheets: Getting the picture of your co-op's financial position This article refers to graphs not available in this online version. The complete article is available here as a pdf. |
19 Jan 2009 | #132 September - October - 2007 |
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Balancing Employers and Employees Food co-ops are known for being compassionate employers. Unlike some of our big competitors in the grocery industry who only work to maintain their organization's interests, food co-ops seem... |
09 Apr 2012 | #159 March - April - 2012 |
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Basics and Beyond In 2009, in response to member interest and needs, the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) launched two new training programs, one geared towards co-op general managers and one geared... |
08 Dec 2010 | #151 November - December 2010 |
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Battleground and Opportunity What’s wrong with this picture? A longtime member of the Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society wheels his cart to the front end of the co-op’s Lebanon, N.H., store and, to pay for his family’s... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Be the Best You Can Be—Quicker You know the feeling: you walk into your first meeting, you don’t know anyone, you’re not sure what to say or do, and everyone but you seems to know what’s going on. That’s... |
04 Jun 2012 | #160 May - June - 2012 |
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Becoming a Community Hub The growth of BriarPatch Co-op (Grass Valley, Cal.), founded in 1976, has been marked by four expansions. From 1992 until May 2007, we occupied a 3,200- square-foot store. Annual sales there had... |
19 Jan 2009 | #132 September - October - 2007 |
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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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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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Best Practices and Balancing Acts Two articles in this edition comprise the cover theme of components and key challenges in food co-op membership systems. Through many years and hundreds of trials, our generation of food... |
19 Jan 2009 | #136 may - june - 2008 |
