Dave Gutknecht
Dave Gutknecht has been editor of Cooperative Grocer magazine since its founding in 1985.
Author's Articles
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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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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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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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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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Myths die hard, and so do member discounts. |
063 March - April - 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 |
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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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 |
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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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My previous column discussed our need to recognize a cooperative as something larger and more enduring than our individual stake in it, greater also than the sum of present members' |
069 March - April - 1997 | January 9, 2004 |
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Readers have responded positively to recent editorials on social capital. In this column I will review our co-op mission, the treatment of capital, and other co-op practices. |
070 May - June - 1997 | January 9, 2004 |
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Over three hundred co-op directors, managers, staff and consultants gathered in Cleveland June 10-13 at the Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference. |
077 July - August - 1998 | January 9, 2004 |
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Results of the Retail Operations Survey once again show strong growth and profitability by most food co-ops during the past year. |
077 July - August - 1998 | January 9, 2004 |
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Thanks to Rick Stewart and Frontier Natural Products Co-op, I just spent a week in Peru, where Frontier and an allied local group, the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture in the T |
078 September - October - 1998 | January 9, 2004 |
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There is so much good news to report, in addition to what appears in this edition, that many of the stories will have to wait. For example: new co-op stores! |
083 July - August - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, that common observation remains a difficult cautionary lesson for many people. |
080 January - February - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Readers may recall my report and editorial following a trip to Peru last year (CG #78, Sept-Oct. 1998). |
084 September - October - 1999 | January 8, 2004 |
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Here is another "big picture" edition, after the previous one's annual survey report. |
090 September - October - 2000 | January 8, 2004 |
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The results from this edition's Retail Operations Survey plus reports from the recent Consumer Cooperative Management Association (CCMA) conference provide many strong indicators of food co-op heal |
089 July - August - 2000 | January 8, 2004 |
Co-op solutionsCollaboration and communication among leading food co-op organizations are increasing. |
091 November - December - 2000 | January 8, 2004 |