Enjoy the archive of Cooperative Grocer magazine, with articles going back to 1985.
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Here is a solution for when you have poor or no retail training materials! |
080 January - February - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Two years ago, North Coast Co-op, operating two stores in Arcata and Eureka (California), streamlined its membership program. |
082 May - June - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Last year, NCB conducted a focus group with representatives of the natural foods industry to help us understand better the perception that you, our customers and partners in the nat |
081 March - April - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Northeast Cooperatives' Manager on Contract program was developed to strengthen our system of co-op management. |
084 September - October - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Members are the lifeblood of a co-op: a truism of cooperatives. Without members, a co-ops wouldn't be a co-op; it would be just another local grocery store. |
080 January - February - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Recently I had a couple conversations that I found disturbing. The first was with a new young produce manager I have been working with on shrink, margins and ordering. |
082 May - June - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Legacy is the challenge of having the thrust of your life or your organization's be perpetuated beyond an individual lifetime. |
081 March - April - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Creating a private or controlled label program is one of the largest endeavors an organization or alliance of organizations can undertake. |
082 May - June - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, that common observation remains a difficult cautionary lesson for many people. |
080 January - February - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Introducing forms of participation to a traditional management hierarchy was the goal; a quality improvement process was the method. |
080 January - February - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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There is so much good news to report, in addition to what appears in this edition, that many of the stories will have to wait. For example: new co-op stores! |
083 July - August - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season, turn, turn, turn.... |
083 July - August - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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A relative recently gave one of us a book of pithy personal advice with the humble title of "How to do Everything Right" (we won't dwell on the reason for this particular gift). |
084 September - October - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Want some good news? Co-op store productivity increased in the third quarter of 1998, when compared to the third quarter of 1997. (See Graph 1.) |
081 March - April - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Many co-ops talk about the need to move or expand for years. Often it is all talk, with a few false starts and little formal planning or action. |
083 July - August - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Ask co-op members anywhere, "What's the purpose of this co-op, anyway?" and you'll likely get some variation of the answer, "To serve the members." Ask them how best to do that, how |
080 January - February - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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I don't have any statistics on this, but I'd bet that the vast majority of natural foods co-ops started out as collectively run organizations. |
082 May - June - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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I am passionate about natural foods. I am passionate about co-ops. And I am passionate about success. |
084 September - October - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Retail food cooperatives have long valued their unique characteristics and independence. |
085 November - December - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Profit alone does not guarantee success or even survival. |
085 November - December - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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