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

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Also available in the archives is LEADer, the NCG Governance Newsletter

    Title Issuesort descending Date
    A Perspective on Cooperative Wages and Values
    BY Melanie Reid

    Co-ops are not typically thought of as “the place to work if you want to earn a lot of money.” However, as values-driven organizations, co-ops have striven to face the challenge of pay head-on and

    		175 November-December 2014 December 24, 2014
    Growth Stories and Quandaries
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    At the heart of our cooperatives is growth of services through communities of owners, employees, suppliers, and allies.

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    Telling the Co-op Story
    BY Patricia Cumbie

    Stories are as old as humankind.  If we didn’t have stories, we wouldn’t have progress or evolution.  It’s how people communicate, organize, and instruct.  Nor could most of us imagine a childhood

    		176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    Ever'man Enjoys Expanded Enterprise
    BY Lauren Southern-Goodwin

    In early April of 2014, Ever’man Natural Foods Co-op, Inc.

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    New Name, New Look: National Co+op Grocers
    BY National Co+op Grocers

    Since its formation in 1999, National Cooperative Grocers Association has been working on behalf of its member and associate food co-ops to strengthen purchasing power, optimize operational and mar

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    A Tool That Works: Revisiting 4 in 3
    BY Stuart Reid
    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    The Merger of Two Co-ops
    BY Michelle Schry

    On January 2, 2012, People’s Food Co-op in La Crosse, Wisconsin, merged with the Good Food Store Co-op in Rochester, Minnesota.  That connection created a single co-op, known as People’s Food Co-op

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 12, 2015
    The Coming Wave
    BY Carolee Colter

    As we all know, the baby boom generation is hitting retirement age. Roughly a quarter of the U.S. population was born between 1946 and 1964, and every month a quarter million more are turning 65.

    		 176 January-February 2015 February 13, 2015
    The Assets Picture
    BY

    A new summary of credit unions and U.S. banks, thanks to the Democracy Collaborative—for data sources, see www.community-wealth.org.

    		 174 September-October 2014 November 19, 2014
    Howard Bowers Day Dollars Target Startup Co-ops
    BY Annie Hoy

    I think it’s safe to say that cooperators are pretty stoked about the blooming “third wave” of new food co-ops organizing and opening now.

    		 174 September-October 2014 November 19, 2014
    Own, Use, Serve, and Belong
    BY Mark Goehring, Leslie Watson

    The Participation framework—Own, Use, Serve, and Belong—has been the focus of presentations and conversations by hundreds of cooperators at the regional Co-op Caf

    		 174 September-October 2014 November 19, 2014
    National and Local Co-ops Provide Startup Funds
    BY Suzi Carter

    In the past year, we in the startup food co-op community experienced a moment that worried us.

    		 174 September-October 2014 November 19, 2014
    NCGA Launches New Program to Support Co-op Sustainability
    BY Sheila Samuelson

    George Carlin may have had it right.

    		 174 September-October 2014 November 19, 2014
    Food’s Energy Footprint
    BY Dave Gutknecht

    To be unconcerned about sustainability and whether current practices can long endure, you would need to be Rip Van Winkle—suddenly awakened after 40 years by the rumbling, not of tenpins but of ear

    		 174 September-October 2014 November 19, 2014
    So Many Co-ops, So Little Time
    BY Adam Schwartz

    Whenever I am having a conversation with friends discussing the problems our society is facing, invariably one of them will say something like, “Adam, you think there is co-op solution for everythi

    		 174 September-October 2014 November 19, 2014
    Co-op Supports Apple Seeds and Healthy Choices
    BY

    Folks residing in Northwest Arkansas are about to get their hands dirty!

    		 174 September-October 2014 November 19, 2014
    Getting the Design Right
    BY Nicole Klimek

    The store design process is easy to research, and the basics are easy to comprehend: –Programming –Design development –Construction documents and administration –Construction and installation –Proj

    		 174 September-October 2014 November 19, 2014
    Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation Celebrates 50 Years
    BY David Thompson

    Twin Pines Cooperative Foundation (TPCF), founded in late 1964, is in its 50th year. TPCF sponsors the locally directed Cooperative Community Fund (CCF) program.

    		 173 July - August 2014 August 25, 2014
    Mastering Co-op Management, Spreading the Knowledge
    BY Jane Livingston

    In late 2012, Dan Arnett left Good Foods Co-op in Lexington, Kentucky, where he had worked for more than 13 years, to become general manager of Central Co-op in Seattle, Wash.

    		 173 July - August 2014 August 25, 2014
    Minimizing the Risk of Fraud
    BY Thane Joyal, Mark Goehring

    Loss prevention is a key piece of the retail grocery business.

    		 173 July - August 2014 September 10, 2014