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Countdown To USDA Organic In October of 2002 consumers will begin to see the USDA Organic logo on products in stores and farm stands. This label, over ten years in the making, has been created to offer... |
07 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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Using Survey Data to Improve Co-ops Green Fields Market follows the annual Cooperative Grocer (CG) survey closely. For me, the survey and the accompanying analysis have been textbook lessons in cooperative finance. I... |
07 Jan 2004 | #095 July - August - 2001 |
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Valley Natural Foods Relocates Five years ago, general manager Susan McGaughey and member-owners of Valley Natural Foods initiated the relocation project that led to the development of property on the Burnsville... |
07 Jan 2004 | #096 September - October - 2001 |
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A Common Vision? Last time I briefly mentioned the cultural shift required for us to work together with effectiveness and accountability. As more and more projects reach a pivotal point, I become increasingly... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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"Reasonable Accommodations" Under the ADA The Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") prohibits discrimination in the workplace based on disabilities (physical or mental). The employer has a duty, in fact, to provide its employees and... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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Gone Fishin'? My recent trip to Austin for the Organic Trade Association's "All Things Organic" event brought the issue of organic aquaculture back into focus. Finally we have an answer from USDA on whether or... |
07 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
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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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Bioterrorism: A Call to Action! Have you read the latest news stories on food bioterrorism in the US and around the world? Taliban fighters sneak growth hormone into milk supply. Although rGBH is banned in major dairy producing... |
07 Jan 2004 | #099 March - April - 2002 |
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Ownership Matters! On September 28, members of Blooming Prairie Cooperative Warehouse voted approval, by 62 percent of the members and 73 percent of the votes, of a proposal from the board of directors to sell the... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Blooming Prairie Proposal Offers Opportunity to Strengthen Our Retailer Network News of the proposed acquisition of Blooming Prairie Cooperative Warehouse by United Natural Foods, Inc. has evoked many different reactions throughout the food co-op community. It is natural to... |
07 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
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National Co-op Advantage Program Set To Launch In March 2002, hundreds of thousands of co-op consumers will receive a full-color flyer filled with dozens of product specials negotiated through the national expansion of CAP, the Co-op... |
07 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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Detroit's Cass Corridor Food Co-op Expands, Encounters Competition Cass Corridor Co-op, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary in the summer of 2002, relocated in late September after many years in a small, rented facility with 1,700 retail square feet. Now... |
07 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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Grocery Co-ops Seek Organic Certification Fifteen years of pushing for a federal organic law came to fruition on October 21, 2002 when the USDA's Final Rule on Organics went into effect. While most of the new Rule simply puts federal... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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CGIN Highlights New Services The Cooperative Grocers Information Network -- CGIN -- held its fifth annual meeting at the June CCMA conference this year. For those of you who were unable to join us, highlights included: |
07 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
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Year Four: CGIN Progress and Plans The end of the year always inspires reflection. While the numbers change almost every day, here's where things stand at CGIN as we close in on the end of 2001, a few months short of our fourth... |
07 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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Culture and Community Meet in the Produce Aisle For thousands of years people and foods from different cultures have been brought together at markets and the dinner table -- mushrooms from caves in France, apples from China. Melons,... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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Communicating "Co-op" Membership is at the heart of cooperation. Cooperative membership is the driving force for an alternative economic system predicated upon user ownership and benefit. It's part and parcel of the... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Co-op Devolution: Blooming Prairie, Frontier, North Farm Food co-op trends reached a remarkable turning point this summer in scenarios that accelerated the decline of cooperatively owned distributors and underscored the crucial role that boards of... |
07 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
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In Corvallis, First Alternative Celebrates Its New Store Many food co-ops established in the 1970s have come of age today, expanding their retail space, revitalizing their identity as cooperatives, and proving that co-ops can continue to thrive in an... |
07 Jan 2004 | #099 March - April - 2002 |
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Making Grab and Go, Go! More and more stores are adding deli grab and go programs, hoping to grow sales and reduce service labor expenses. Stories abound of prepared foods departments doubling their sales. On the... |
07 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
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Eastern Canada: Natural Food Co-ops See Growth, Threats Natural food co-operatives in Eastern Canada are facing many of the same opportunities and problems as their counterparts in the US. As more and more people become concerned about the quality of... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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An Exchange on Price and the Mainstreaming of Natural/Organic To the Editor and George Southworth, We are the leading natural food distributor in Ontario. Our main problem has been how to restrain and shape our growth, which is proceeding at a torrid... |
07 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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Farm Aid 2002 Press conference: Speakers included Kim Seeley of Pensylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Rhonda Perry of Missouri Rural Crisis Center, Shirley Sherrod and Ralph Paige of Federation of... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Farm Bill Signed - But Not Yet Sealed or Delivered! This spring Congress passed the 2002 Farm Bill, signed by the President on May 13th. The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture does not support the bill because we feel the huge subsidies... |
07 Jan 2004 | #101 July - August - 2002 |
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Wanted: 25 million Grassroots Advocates Wanted: 25 million grassroots advocates for just and sustainable food systems. Yes, 25 million. Not 25,000 or even 250,000. We want millions of Americans from all walks of... |
07 Jan 2004 | #102 September - October - 2002 |
