Enjoy the archive of Cooperative Grocer magazine, with articles going back to 1985.

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Also available in the archives is LEADer, the NCG Governance Newsletter

    Title Issue Date
    Additional Stores: Expanding "The Co-op"
    BY Bill Gessner

    Food co-ops expanding from one to two stores must navigate a challenging and perilous course.

    		 134 Jan - Feb - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Cornucopia Institute’s Complaints Expose Outlaw Factory Dairy Farms
    BY Will Fantle

    Operators of factory-farm facilities claiming to be organic are feeling the heat from USDA enforcement actions.

    		 134 Jan - Feb - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Foodborne Illnesses and Practical Protections
    BY Kenneth M. Odza

    A perfect storm may be brewing. Dangerous pathogens are evolving quickly.

    		 134 Jan - Feb - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Fostering Creativity: Marketing Matters
    BY Ellen Michel

    Held in Austin, Texas on October 24–26, the 2007 Marketing Matters Conference gave cooperators a chance to focus on marketing topics and strategies for the advancement of our stores.

    		 134 Jan - Feb - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Intensive Learning and Gardening at Co-op’s Urban Farm
    BY Jonathan McGoran

    Walking down the rows of raised beds, blanketed now with cover crops and a light morning frost, it’s hard to believe that just a few weeks earlier the Weavers Way Farm was bustling with volunteers

    		134 Jan - Feb - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Living Dangerously: Food and the Future
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Listen up! Year 2008 is going to be a difficult one, for reasons I have touched on in recent editions.

    		 134 Jan - Feb - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Minneapolis Co-op Contrast: Groundbreaking and Closing
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    In Minneapolis, within a period of a few weeks, North Country Co-op announced that it would be closing up shop after 37 years, while Seward Co-op-born in the same early 1970s era-held a groundbrea

    		 134 Jan - Feb - 2008 January 19, 2009
    NCBA Trip to Singapore and Indonesia
    BY Bob Noble

    This past October I participated in the biennial General Assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) in Singapore, followed by a tour of coffee and micro-fin

    		 134 Jan - Feb - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Setting a Process for General Manager Compensation
    BY Carolee Colter, Mark Goehring

    This article has charts and tables that are
    available here in pdf form

    		 134 Jan - Feb - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Sustainability Context- Economy within Society within Ecology
    BY Russ Christianson

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    		 140 January - February - 2009 January 19, 2009
    Membership Is Ownership: The Cooperative Advantage
    BY Marilyn Scholl

    Interest in food cooperatives is growing, due both to increased interest in local, natural, and organic foods and to increased awareness of our economic vulnerability.

    		 136 may - june - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Learning from Boards that Deliver
    BY Candace Dow

    How do we sustain our success?

    		 136 may - june - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Fair Trade Finance: Where Is Your Money?
    BY Margaret Lund

    Bear Stearns. UBS.
    Bank of America.
    Morgan Stanley.
    Merrill Lynch.

    		136 may - june - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Co-op Challenged by Member Boycott Request
    BY Linda Diane Feldt

    The views and perspective expressed are our own, and not necessarily those of the co-op members, the co-op staff, or the board of directors of People’s Food Co-op of Ann Arbor Michigan.

    		 136 may - june - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Best Practices and Balancing Acts
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Two articles in this edition comprise the cover theme of components and key challenges in food co-op membership systems.

    		 136 may - june - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Back on Our Feet
    BY

    Just over a year ago, Durango Natural Foods was in trouble.

    		 136 may - june - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Advocating for the Organic Community in the Farm Bill
    BY Steve Etka, Liana Hoodes, Robynn Shrader

    Organic farmers, consumers and processors all have a direct stake in the outcome of the 2008 Farm Bill.

    		 136 may - june - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Still Drinking Policy Governance Lite
    BY Heather Schmidt Albinger
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    		137 July - August - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Retail Rock and Roll
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    This edition’s contents illustrate different angles on a fundamental aspect of today’s economic environment: grocery retailers cannot plan to stay in place if they plan to stay in business.

    		 137 July - August - 2008 January 19, 2009
    Marketing Matters 2008:
    BY Ellen Michel
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    		137 July - August - 2008 January 19, 2009