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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 |
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Grassroots Deliver BIG Wins in the Senate -- Every Voice Still Needed in House-Senate Conference Committee As we go to press, citizens across the country are calling their Senators and feverishly writing letters to the editor. In short, they're making our democracy live and breathe -- and it is a... |
07 Jan 2004 | #099 March - April - 2002 |
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Farm Bill: Fight to the Finish As we go to press, members of the House and Senate Farm Bill Conference Committee are about to meet to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. Exactly what... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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"Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore." Better co-op stores and stronger regional and national co-op associations are gratifying results based on years of groundwork. Each year the reports of the Cooperative Grocers Associations and... |
07 Jan 2004 | #099 March - April - 2002 |
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An Update from the Frontier Co-op CEO Following up the previous edition's report on Frontier Natural Products Co-op, interim CEO Andy Pauley wrote: Since July 16 when I took the job of interim CEO at Frontier,... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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GreenStar Co-op: A Different Look at Growth and Expansion Most often the pages of Cooperative Grocer bring us tales of expansion and relocation projects, or new and innovative cooperative projects undertaken by some of our industry's adventurers. As I... |
07 Jan 2004 | #099 March - April - 2002 |
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Improving Your Deli's Hot Case What are customers looking for in a hot foods program, and what competitive advantages do you have in the world of meal solutions? Natural foods delis have a unique opportunity to provide hot... |
07 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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Human Resources Survey This is the second annual Cooperative Grocer Human Resources (HR) Survey report. It has been expanded to include information about boards of directors and members of co-ops,... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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Not Too Late To Integrate One co-op begins and another closes. One door opens and another shuts. The recent fates of retail as well as wholesale food cooperatives reflect common lessons. |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Japan Co-ops Endure Recession, Innovate Editor's note: Information below is taken from the English-language newsletter of the Japanese Consumers' Co-operative Union (JCCU); their website is located at http://www.coop (click "English... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Cooperative Grocer and the National Cooperative Grocers Association Join Forces We're pleased and excited to announce that at its October 20 meeting the board of directors of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA) approved the acquisition of Cooperative Grocer.... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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Kootenay Thrives on Local and Organic Kootenay Country Store Cooperative is the heart of Nelson, British Columbia. What began more than thirty years ago as a buying club with a few member families has turned into the community's... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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The Long Road Back For background on the shaky start to Mississippi Market's second store, see "A Near Miss at Mississippi Market," in CG #92, Jan.-Feb. 2001. |
07 Jan 2004 | #098 January - February - 2002 |
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Mondragon Retail Strategy: Eroski Partnership Path During the past two years Grupo Eroski has grown to become the second largest food retailer in Spain, following the French retailing giant Carrefour. Eroski is the distribution division of the... |
07 Jan 2004 | #103 November - December - 2002 |
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CGIN News: More Resources Added to www.cgin.org Thanks to generous contributions submitted by members of the Cooperative Grocers' Information Network (CGIN), we've been able to add the following new items to our site in the past couple of... |
07 Jan 2004 | #100 May - June - 2002 |
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Pointing Resources Toward A Strong National Network Having recently attended the CCMA Conference in Eureka, California, I am newly impressed and heartened by the enthusiasm and commitment by many in our co-op sector to do the difficult and... |
07 Jan 2004 | #101 July - August - 2002 |
