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?

Overheard at the Natural Products Expo in Baltimore:

Q. How do you make a small fortune?

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

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

In coffee shops, break rooms, and breakfast nooks across this country playground scuffles are taking place between inner children.

Most of us who work in cooperatives are excited by the vision of an alternative form of business ownership.

I don't want to disappoint my readers. This article is not going to tell you where to find a general manager.

The World of Food Co-ops: Powerful results can be achieved, as the previous edition's report on Co-op Atlantic shows, by a cooperative food system that is embedded

Three different generations gaps can be seen in this edition: First, the annual Retail Operations Survey notes strong growth by many co-ops -- but also an inability to generate new