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member benefit

Reaching the Co-op’s Owners

By |2023-05-05T20:06:45-04:00July 7th, 2015|

By Patricia Cumbie 179 July-August 2015   Food cooperatives have a special relationship with their owners and customers, but even the best relationships need to be continually nurtured and cultivated. In a rapidly changing marketplace, one in which skillful competitors can outstrip other grocers on price, convenience, and amenities, customer loyalty is king. And consumers these days are notoriously fickle. A generation ago, people [...]

Who’s Watching Member Labor in Retail Food Cooperatives?

By |2023-05-05T20:33:29-04:00January 16th, 2012|

By Thane Joyal 158 January - February - 2012 When many retail food cooperatives were formed in the 1970s, the distinctions among worker cooperatives, consumer cooperatives and not-for-profit corporations were not considered to be barriers to doing business in a culture of cooperation. Regardless of the legal form used to organize the business, in retail food co-ops across the country, members commonly worked, carrying [...]

Membership is Ownership: The Cooperative Advantage

By |2023-05-05T20:22:19-04:00May 16th, 2008|

By Marilyn Scholl 136 may - june - 2008 Interest in food cooperatives is growing, due both to increased interest in local, natural, and organic foods and to increased awareness of our economic vulnerability. More and more communities want the stability and accountability that a cooperative can offer. Cooperative ownership is an economic model that can create great benefits for our communities and member-owners. [...]

Building and Improving Membership Programs

By |2023-05-08T14:43:57-04:00February 22nd, 1999|

By Karen Zimbelman, Marilyn Scholl 080 January - February - 1999 Members are the lifeblood of a co-op: a truism of cooperatives. Without members, a co-ops wouldn't be a co-op; it would be just another local grocery store. A co-op exists to serve the needs of its members. But members provide more than a co-op's reason for being. They provide the capital, the patronage, [...]

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