Dave Gutknecht
Dave Gutknecht has been editor of Cooperative Grocer magazine since its founding in 1985.
Author's Articles
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This year's co-op conference gave an unusual "milestone" award by recognizing a generation of food co-ops: ones that have recently reached age twenty-five. |
071 July - August - 1997 | January 9, 2004 |
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At the Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference held in May, the theme was "two-stepping between evolution and extinction" -- highlighting food co-ops' need to |
071 July - August - 1997 | January 9, 2004 |
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 |
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Themes linking this edition's feature co-op and the results from our annual survey: |
065 July - August - 1996 | January 9, 2004 |
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Myths die hard, and so do member discounts. |
063 March - April - 1996 | January 9, 2004 |
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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 |
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Themes from this edition on co-op managers, their boards of directors, and co-op members: |
067 November - December - 1996 | January 9, 2004 |
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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 |
057 March - April - 1995 | January 9, 2004 |
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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 |
059 July - August - 1995 | January 9, 2004 |
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Reviewing a year that has gone by as quickly as this one has shouldn't require more than a few paragraphs! |
061 November - December - 1995 | January 9, 2004 |
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"All cooperative organizations, in order to best serve the interests of their members and their communities, should actively cooperate in every practical way with other cooperat |
058 May - June - 1995 | January 9, 2004 |
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050 January - February - 1994 | January 9, 2004 |
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Results from this year's Retail Cooperative Operations Survey show that 1992 was another year of strong growth and overall profitability for these stores. |
047 July - August - 1993 | January 9, 2004 |
Pickford is "Disappointed" and Center for Science in the Public Interest says "Dangerous"November 2, 1992 |
044 January - February - 1993 | January 9, 2004 |
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Some items in my mail recently underscore questions useful for any cooperative: Who are we serving? Where is the rest of our community? |
046 May - June - 1993 | January 9, 2004 |
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After fifteen months of debt-heavy operations, Tucson's Food Conspiracy Cooperative closed its 24,000 square foot natural foods supermarket in mid-December. |
039 March - April - 1992 | January 9, 2004 |
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Members of the Michigan Federation of Food Co-ops voted on February 29 to consolidate with North Farm Co-op, based in Madison, Wisconsin. |
040 May - June - 1992 | January 9, 2004 |
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We have much that we can be proud of. Co-ops in numerous towns and cities are active players in their community's environmental affairs. |
040 May - June - 1992 | January 9, 2004 |
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Two more cooperative food distributors disappeared in 1991: Mountain Warehouse, a small operation formerly serving a large Southeast region -- that story is |
037 November - December - 1991 | January 9, 2004 |
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Recent applications of Department of Labor minimum wage and related requirements to co-op member labor -- where members receive a discount on purchases in exchange for co-op work -- have highlighte |
034 May - June - 1991 | January 9, 2004 |