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    Title Issue Date
    Who Does What in Personnel
    BY Carolee Colter

    In a previous article ("Enjoying Employing," Cooperative Grocer #18, August-September 1988), I discussed the players and their respective roles in development of personnel policy.

    		 020 December - January - 1988 January 9, 2004
    Getting and Giving Employment References
    BY Carolee Colter

    An applicant's past performance in previous jobs is one of the best indicators you will get of how she will perform on the job.

    		 025 November - December - 1989 January 9, 2004
    Store Security: Shoplifting Prevention and Internal Theft
    BY Karen Brown
     Shoplifting at the co-op! That just doesn't make sense. Why would anyone want to steal from this place?
    		 025 November - December - 1989 January 9, 2004
    Improving Performance: Conducting a Traffic Flow Analysis
    BY Chris Quinn, Rex Stewart

    LAYOUT PRINCIPLES

    Departmentalize

    • Group items by commodity
    • Consolidate to increase impact
    • Complement products

    Disperse volume

    		022 April - June - 1989 January 9, 2004
    Weaver Street Market: A modern day co-op story
    BY Chris Quinn

    The story behind the creation of Weaver Street Market, a new community owned natural foods store in Carrboro, North Carolina, reads like a modern co-op fairy tale.

    		 021 February - March - 1989 January 9, 2004
    Putting Your Best Slate Forward
    BY Mari Hooten Lee

    Some co-op leaders consider their organizations fortunate to find enough people just to fill the vacant seats on the board. But warm bodies are never enough.

    		 031 November - December - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Co-opportunity Thrives Again
    BY Melody Washington

    The story of Santa Monica's Co-opportunity is an arduous saga -- from early success, to the brink of failure, to its present very sound financial condition.

    		 026 January - February - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Co-ops and the Three R's
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    If each day is indeed Earth Day, we all must learn and relearn the new "Three Rs": reduce, reuse, recycle.

    		 028 May - June - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Turnover or Tenure:
    BY Karen Zimbelman

    For some, the subject of limited terms for directors inspires passionate debate; for others the idea of limiting directors' service seems so improbable as to be laughable.

    		 030 September - October - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Real Work Yields Real Progress at Hanover
    BY Harrison Drinkwater

    		 027 March - April - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Abandoned Member Property Need Not Escheat to the State
    BY Lottie Cohen

    Virtually every state has adopted a law similar to the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act.

    		 027 March - April - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Hello Goodbye: Conducting Exit Interviews
    BY Carolee Colter
    You may -- or may not! -- miss someone when they're gone.

    In either case, holding exit interviews with departing staff will provide the co-op with valuable information to improve operations.

    		 029 July - August - 1990 January 9, 2004
    A Conversation With Mark Ritchie on Food and Co-ops
    BY Dave Gutknecht

     

    Bruce Bacon is a community activist and market gardener in Ramsey, Minnesota.

    		 030 September - October - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Making the Minutes "Ours"
    BY Karen Zimbelman

    		 029 July - August - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Cooperatives and Multi-Culturalism: The Challenge of Difference
    BY Katja Hahn D'Errico

    The "Happy Valley," as the Hampden-Hampshire County area in Massachusetts is often called, has five colleges in its vicinity and is known for the liberal attitude of the population.

    		 027 March - April - 1990 January 9, 2004
    From a Monocultural to a Multicultural Organization
    BY Katja Hahn D'Errico

    In my first article, I talked about the culture of U.S. and Canadian co-ops and noted how they were distinctly different from the mainstream white culture.

    		 029 July - August - 1990 January 9, 2004
    New Leaf Market Finds New Life
    BY Gretchen Hardin

    Looking at New Leaf Market now, it would be hard to discern any of its history The new and sparkling clean store gives no hint of the struggles that this cooperative has overcome.

    		 027 March - April - 1990 January 9, 2004
    Tax Deduction Supports Accessible Remodeling
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    Proposed rules requiring handicapped accessibility for retail businesses and public establishments of all types were announced in January 1991 by the U.S.

    		 033 March - April - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Cambridge Central Square Saga
    BY Richard Short

    Don't expect your trip to a new store to exactly follow your best laid plans. You will experience some detours and surprises.

    		 034 May - June - 1991 January 9, 2004
    Disappearing Distributors
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    This edition's stories on the demise of two cooperative distributors, Mountain Warehouse and WholeFood Express, prompt some further reflections on the state of food cooperative retails and their co

    		 037 November - December - 1991 January 9, 2004