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    Title Issue Date
    Abuse -- and Answers
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Themes from this edition on co-op managers, their boards of directors, and co-op members:

    		 067 November - December - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Merchandising Body Care and Supplements
    BY Janda Grove

    Supplements and body care items offer unique challenges and opportunities to your store.

    		 066 September - October - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Co-op Conference: Getting Out of Hand?
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Milwaukee in May: over three hundred managers, directors, and others often seen in co-ops were seen here for over three thousand minutes.

    		 065 July - August - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Working with Community Supported Agriculture for the Benefit of All
    BY Bryan Carstens

    Healthy food. Sharing expenses, risks, and profits. Active participation. Community involvement.

    		 064 May - June - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Planning Deli Success
    BY Steve Rosen

    Overheard at the Natural Products Expo in Baltimore:

    Q. How do you make a small fortune?

    		 062 January - February - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Discounts and Death
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Myths die hard, and so do member discounts.

    		 063 March - April - 1996 January 9, 2004
    What Co-op Employees Think
    BY Carolee Colter, Karen Zimbelman

    How do co-op employees feel about the co-op as an employer? How satisfied are they with their compensation, their working conditions, their supervision, and their co-workers?

    		 063 March - April - 1996 January 9, 2004
    The Co-op Empowerment Stream
    BY Bill Gessner

    Our cooperatives are truly empowering organizations, in origin and in practice, in vision and in mission, in theory and in action.

    		 063 March - April - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Handling a Sexual Harassment Claim
    BY Carolee Colter

    What you are trying to find out through an investigation is:

    		 066 September - October - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Running a Successful HBA Department
    BY Jane Kennedy

     

    		 065 July - August - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Assessing the Big Picture
    BY George Southworth

    This article will explore the issues and historical precedents that are driving the massive changes in the manufacture, distribution and sales of food in the United States and world

    		 066 September - October - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Financial Planning: A Context in Which to Measure Performance
    BY Scott Beers, Margaret Lund

    Planning is about thinking of what you would like to have happen and then making an educated guess about what is likely to happen in the marketplace and what you would reasonably

    		 066 September - October - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Member Discounts
    BY Scott Beers, Margaret Lund

    Did you know that giving member discounts is not one of the cooperative principles?

    		 063 March - April - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Niche Glitch
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Themes linking this edition's feature co-op and the results from our annual survey:

    		065 July - August - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Old and New
    BY Dave Gutknecht

     

    Times like the present help me appreciate anew the place of cooperaives. But then, this nation has always been dominated by private capital.

    		 066 September - October - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Cooperative Principles Updated
    BY Ann Hoyt

    "We have to do it this way. After all, that's what makes us a co-op."

    		 062 January - February - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Produce Department Review
    BY Shade Gomez

    The produce department, like any other department in a co-op, is there for the co-op's members. Serving them should be our major focus.

    		 064 May - June - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Using the Spreadsheet Template
    BY Scott Beers, Margaret Lund

    Creating a good template for financial planning is an investment on the co-op's part -- a darned good one.

    Computer spreadsheets make the task of financial

    		 067 November - December - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Seven Steps to a Successful Membership Drive
    BY Patricia Cumbie

    The success or failure of your next membership drive hinges on more than signage, brochures and the free thing you give away to every new member who joins.

    		 064 May - June - 1996 January 9, 2004
    Surveying Members on Membership
    BY John Corbett

    Increasing numbers of co-ops conduct an annual survey of members or of shoppers in the store.

    		 067 November - December - 1996 January 9, 2004