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

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    Title Issue Date
    PCC Natural Markets Raises the Bar
    BY Diana Crane

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    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 27, 2008
    New Cooperatives and New Alliances
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    As before, recognition of changed conditions and thinking outside the co-op is needed. Concerning the economic breakdown, it’s likely you ain’t seen nothing yet.

    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 27, 2008
    Moving from the Fringe to Downtown
    BY Clem Nilan

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    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 27, 2008
    Food Co-op 500
    BY Stuart Reid

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    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 27, 2008
    Collective Management
    BY Bob Davis, Lori Burge

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    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 27, 2008
    Co-op Atlantic: End of the Saga?
    BY Tom Webb

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    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 27, 2008
    Carving Out Meat Profits
    BY Robert Duncan

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    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 27, 2008
    From Corporate to Co-op
    BY Carolee Colter

    During the 1980s and the 1990s, some natural foods co-ops attempted to acquire the skills and know-how of the conventional grocery industry by hiring grocery veterans as general managers.

    		 110 January - February - 2004 December 26, 2008
    Employee Attitude Surveys
    BY Carolee Colter, Karen Zimbelman

    It's a situation that many boards have wrestled with: how to measure and monitor an organization's performance beyond just the numbers from financial statements.

    		 040 May - June - 1992 December 17, 2008
    An Open Letter to the Farmer in Chief
    BY Staff

    Highly recommended: “Dear Mr. Next Presi­dent,” an excellent review of the need to transition to local and organic ­agriculture, written by Michael Pollan, which ­appeared in the Oct.

    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 8, 2008
    Howard Bowers Day 2008
    BY Staff

    The special focus of Howard Bowers Day 2008: education and training needs of new and expanding food co-ops.

    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 8, 2008
    Discussion Course on Cooperatives Receives Award
    BY Rob Baran

    The Association of Cooperative Educators (ACE) presented its education program award to A Discussion Course on Cooperatives in August of 2008.

    		 139 November - December - 2008 December 8, 2008
    LEADer Winter 2008 Issue 2
    BY Cindy Owings, Marcia Shaw, Martha Whitman, Paige Lettington, Lucinda Berdon
    		 LEADer Board Newsletter December 1, 2008
    Grants Announced for Organic and Cooperative Projects
    BY Staff

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    		 138 September - October - 2008 November 13, 2008
    LEADer Fall 2008 Issue 1
    BY Cindy Owings, Marcia Shaw, Lucinda Berdon
    		 LEADer Board Newsletter October 1, 2008
    Reader Survey Brings Praise…
    BY Staff

    Cooperative Grocer readers responded to our recent online survey and provided interesting profiles and helpful comments.

    		 136 may - june - 2008 June 2, 2008
    The Editor Notes
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    From rural Indiana to Japan, from Indonesia to Puget Sound, cooperatives are providing answers and a way forward in an environment of increasing challenges.

    		 135 March - April - 2008 April 24, 2008
    Share the Pain, Share the Gain: Co-ops network to improve Point of Sale
    BY Ellen Michel

    Changes to POS systems are inevitably stressful, as Liz McMann notes in her article.

    		 135 March - April - 2008 April 24, 2008
    Letter to the Editor: Organic dairy prices
    BY Ed Maltby

    Currently, national media is focused on those large organic dairies that have flouted the integrity of the organic regulations (see “Cornucopia’s Complaints Expose Outlaw Dairy Farms,” CG

    		135 March - April - 2008 April 24, 2008
    Domestic Fair Trade Association Launched
    BY Grace Cox

    November 30, 2007: more than 50 people met in La Farge, Wisconsin, to participate in the founding meeting of the Domestic Fair Trade Association (DFTA).

    		 135 March - April - 2008 April 24, 2008