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Old Dog, New Tricks There are plenty of unwelcome emotions that accompany us through our days in retail, like stress or maybe even a little anger. But nothing quite starts the day like that twinge of outright fear in... |
15 Oct 2010 | #149 July - August - 2010* |
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Marketing Matters 2010 Marketing Matters 2010 took place in New York City, May 11–13, bringing together 75 co-op marketing and member services attendees, plus presenters and National Cooperative Grocers Association (... |
15 Oct 2010 | #149 July - August - 2010* |
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Cooperative-Conscious Radio in Atlanta I love co-ops, and I love radio! Naturally, upon coming to serve in one of the largest cooperatives in the Southeast six years ago, Sevananda Natural Foods Market, I was excited to use all the... |
15 Oct 2010 | #149 July - August - 2010* |
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Meaningful Metrics Successful reporting is essential to maintaining a positive board-management relationship. A sound process—one that includes the creation of meaningful metrics—is a powerful tool that closes the... |
15 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Making Ourselves Accountable Board of directors’ self-evaluation is the act of reflecting upon the past in order to constantly improve. It is rooted in a sincere commitment to providing high-quality governance as trustees of... |
15 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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The Fair Trade Movement For more than 60 years, fair trade—a trading partnership based on dialogue, transparency, and respect—has contributed to greater social and economic equity and to protection of the global... |
15 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Food Co-ops and the Road to Organic Valley: Part 1 [First published 2008 in Organic Valley's Rootstock.] Click here for Part 2. Twenty years ago, organic agriculture was a glimmer of light in a declining farm economy. From the... |
07 Oct 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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The Buzz on Fair Trade Once Again Nut Butter is an employee-owned company. Beekeeper sustainability projects and the establishment of fair trade infrastructure have been an important part of our work at Once... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Sourcing with Integrity Since beginning as a two-person operation in 1976, Frontier Natural Products Co-op has specialized in natural and organic products. The business was originally structured as a cooperative that... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Cooperative Fund of New England While completing its 35th year of advancing cooperative enterprise, the Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE) is extending loans at a record pace. By mid-year 2010, around $2.5 million in funding... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 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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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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Hanover Co-op Opens Fourth Store In late June, Hanover Consumer Cooperative Society opened a 15,000-square-foot facility in White River Junction, Vt., the co-op’s fourth food store within a seven-mile radius. The co-op’s new... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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Harvest Moonrise Five years of hard work and a million dollars in owner investment have resulted in the store the community dreamed of. The story of the Harvest Moon Co-op (Long Lake,... |
05 Oct 2010 | #150 September - October 2010 |
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When the Egg Thing Broke The risk of salmonella poisoning at poultry operations with atrocious practices led to a massive egg recall totaling over 500 million eggs and reaching more than 22 states. It is driving... |
05 Sep 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Core Values: Three pillars of a food revolution An noteworthy article by Anna Lappe, Three Pillars of a Food Revolution appeared recently in Yes! magazine. Based on a June 2010 presentation to a National Cooperative Grocers Association... |
05 Sep 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Creating Resilience: The Larger Agenda Here is a quote, from David Orr’s book Down to the Wire, which captures the scope of what we need to be doing to build the transition to a more resilient and possibly sustainable society: “... |
05 Sep 2010 | • Endcap Articles |
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Thinking Outside the Co-op Welcome to a new era, one of expanded possibilities for cooperatives as well as overall economic decline. Readers will be familiar with this message, even if resisting its conclusions. Here’... |
20 Jul 2010 | #136 may - june - 2008 |
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Prospects: Year 1, 25, 40… Annual milestones and awards of recognition are noted here, with some food co-ops in year one and others now at age 40. For Cooperative Grocer, it is 25 years— and an excuse to offer some... |
15 Jul 2010 | #149 July - August - 2010* |
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CCMA Conference Highlights and Challenges Surrounded by the rolling hills of southern Indiana, some 360 co-op board members, managers, staff, trainers and others attended the 2010 Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA)... |
15 Jul 2010 | #149 July - August - 2010* |
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Waking the Sleeping Giant Creating solutions begins with building the foundation for the future you want. One of the remarkable things about cooperation is that mutualism encourages solution-oriented growth, built on a... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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Telling Stories Long ago, back in the days of community barn raising, an Upper Midwest barn was new in a day. Neighbors traveled by horse, wagon, and maybe a model-A or two to help a young German homesteader and... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
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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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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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Smile, Please, You're in Front of a Customer About a year ago, our major competitor held a focus group with some of its customers. We learned from several participants—longtime members of our co-op—that many people in the group told the... |
04 Jun 2010 | #148 May - June - 2010 |
