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    Title Issue Date
    Exemption Sought For Co-op Member Labor Programs
    BY Staff

    [Shady DeJong and Kathleen Campbell from La Montanita Food Co-op contributed the following report.]

    		 035 July - August - 1991 January 9, 2004
    A "Non-Working, Non-Worrying" Member
    BY Paul Cultrera

    "Non-Working, Non-Worrying" member Paul Cultrera responds to the article about exemptions for co-op member labor programs in the July-August 1991 issue of Cooperative Gro

    		 036 September - October - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Preparing For Expansion
    BY Bill Gessner

    Losing Market Share?

    Many of today's retail food cooperatives now have a history of ten to twenty years.

    		 033 March - April - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Firing: When Worse Comes to Worse
    BY Carolee Colter

    Firing is an emotional business for the manager and for the employee. There's no denying that losing a job can be a shattering event in someone's life.

    		 037 November - December - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Setting Up The New Meat Department
    BY Mark Braskie

    Since the reason for establishing a retail meat department is to expand the line of product and provide additional service to the customer while enjoying increased sales and gross profit, careful a

    		 037 November - December - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Protecting Member Loan Programs
    BY Karen Zimbelman

    As readers may recall, the U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a ruling specifically about co-op loan programs. In the case, Reves v.

    		 035 July - August - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Closing Mountain Warehouse
    BY Joel Landau

    Mountain Warehouse was a cooperatively owned distributor of natural foods, with 1990 sales of $2.2 million.

    		 037 November - December - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Making an End of It at New Pioneer
    BY Theresa Carbrey, Denise Chevalier

    Editor's note: The reality of business development is that our best laid plans are often led astray.

    		 037 November - December - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Orienting New Co-op Workers
    BY Carolee Colter

    Orientation:a familiarization with and adaptation to a situation or environment."

    		033 March - April - 1991 January 9, 2004
    "We Live In A Political World"
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    For many of us, pursuing careers in cooperatives is a means of applying, through the institutions we build by our daily work, principles that evoke a world of social justice.

    		 033 March - April - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Securities Laws And Co-op Member Loan Programs
    BY Laddie Lushin

    Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that will have dramatic implications for co-op member loan programs.

    		 033 March - April - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Two Co-ops, One General Manager
    BY Dave Berner

    Can two cooperatives, both successful natural food retails, share a general manager?

    		 034 May - June - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Village Cooperation Builds A General Store
    BY Julie Shively

    The Village Cooperative is a rural co-op located in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, not far from the Connecticut River.

    		 032 January - February - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Who Benefits From Co-op Member Labor?
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Recent applications of Department of Labor minimum wage and related requirements to co-op member labor -- where members receive a discount on purchases in exchange for co-op work -- have highlighte

    		 034 May - June - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Co-op Distributors Close: Mountain Warehouse and WholeFood Express
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Two more cooperative food distributors disappeared in 1991: Mountain Warehouse, a small operation formerly serving a large Southeast region -- that story is

    		 037 November - December - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Babyseat Rental Program at Hanover Co-op
    BY Andrea Williams

    As you climb the stairs to the offices above the food store at the Hanover Co-op, you can't help but notice all the babyseats stacked to the ceiling on the adjacent ledge.

    		 038 January - February - 1992 January 9, 2004
    Bellingham Co-op: Moving Down The Relocation Road
    BY Jim Ashby

    This is the story of a relocation project with more lives than a cat. It has been near death many times and has come within a whisker of being a disaster more times than I care to remember.

    		 040 May - June - 1992 January 9, 2004
    Berkeley: Lessons for Co-op Leaders
    BY Karen Zimbelman

    Editor's note: I published several thousand words of my own on the decline of the Berkeley Co-op and related lessons, three years ago in Cooperative Grocer #18 & 19 (1988

    		 038 January - February - 1992 January 9, 2004
    What Good Is A Business Plan?
    BY Mary Myers, Walden Swanson

    Editor's note: This article is the first in a series of three articles on Business Plans for co-ops.

    		 038 January - February - 1992 January 9, 2004
    Business Plans: Doing the Groundwork
    BY Mary Myers, Walden Swanson
    This article Is the second in a series on business planning, based on the how-to manual Business Planning for Cooperatives, by Cooperative Development Services.
    		 040 May - June - 1992 January 9, 2004