Dave Gutknecht
Dave Gutknecht has been editor of Cooperative Grocer magazine since its founding in 1985.
Author's Articles
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Many of today’s food co-ops lead their community and marketplace in key ways, though they do not have a dominant share of its total grocery sales. |
194 Jan.-Feb. 2018 | January 27, 2018 |
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Increasingly, climate change is recognized as “an existential question”—it threatens our very existence. |
192 Sept.-Oct 2017 | November 1, 2017 |
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Under the theme, “Our North Star: Cooperate to Differentiate,” some 400 cooperators met in downtown Minneapolis on June 8–10 for the 61st annual Consumer Cooperative Management Associati |
191 July-August 2017 | August 11, 2017 |
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Co-op milestones are given recognition and celebrated at the June conference reported in this issue. |
191 July-August 2017 | February 10, 2018 |
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Cooperatives when at their best show resiliency by enhancing member services through diverse tactics and forms of collaboration. |
190 May-June 2017 | June 23, 2017 |
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Ontario Natural Food Co-op (ONFC) announced in early March that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its business and key assets to the Horizon Group of western Canada. |
190 May-June 2017 | July 2, 2017 |
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Looking at today’s social needs, approaches that are based on common interests are both threatened by a dysfunctional political economy and made more attractive by its failures. |
188 Jan-Feb 2017 | March 6, 2017 |
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It is always timely to examine handling cooperative conflict and building cooperative resiliency. |
187 Nov-Dec 2016 | January 3, 2017 |
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Solar power projects at food co-ops are highlighted in this issue, and there will be more such reports ahead. |
186 Sept-Oct 2016 | September 26, 2016 |
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Among awards and milestones reported here and celebrated at the 60th annual Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) gathering, it is remarkable to note the 80th anniversary of Hanover Co |
185 July-Aug 2016 | July 23, 2016 |
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Under the theme, “Disrupting the Future,” over 400 cooperators met at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst on June 9–11 for the 60th annual Consumer Cooperative Management Associat |
185 July-Aug 2016 | September 1, 2016 |
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Food co-ops face strong challenges to their market position and more than ever need to differentiate the co-op in a crowded marketplace. |
184 May-June 2016 | June 2, 2016 |
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There is a world of cooperatives out there, inevitably full of both potential and problems. |
183 Mar-Apr 2016 | March 28, 2016 |
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Got capital? Few topics are as persistent in co-op history. How will the co-op finance improved assets and services that will attract and retain owners? |
182 January-February 2016 | February 5, 2016 |
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The dream of a united co-operative system spanning the chain from farmers to consumers has come to an end.” The recent closing of Co-op Atlantic operations signaled the end of a major co-op federat |
182 January-February 2016 | February 5, 2016 |
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Cuba is opening not only to more visitors but also to more cooperatives.Its food economy is shifting from centralized practices of the past to rapid cooperative development. |
180 Sept-Oct 2015 | November 4, 2015 |
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181 Nov-Dec 2015 | December 2, 2015 |
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How will food co-ops differentiate themselves? How will they become more inclusive? |
179 July-August 2015 | September 3, 2015 |
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The market outlook for cooperatives specializing in organic, fresh, and local is more challenging than at any time in the past few decades. |
179 July-August 2015 | September 3, 2015 |
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Food co-ops today operate with both increased competition and increased collaboration. |
177 March-April 2015 | May 27, 2015 |