Download or read book Consumer Cooperatives in the Grocery Retailing Industry written by Loys L. Mather and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grocery Story written by Jon Steinman and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hungry for change? Put the power of food co-ops on your plate and grow your local food economy. Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most authoritative strand of the food web has received surprisingly little attention: the grocery store—the epicenter of our food-gathering ritual. Through penetrating analysis and inspiring stories and examples of American and Canadian food co-ops, Grocery Story makes a compelling case for the transformation of the grocery store aisles as the emerging frontier in the local and good food movements. Author Jon Steinman: Deconstructs the food retail sector and the shadows cast by corporate giants Makes the case for food co-ops as an alternative Shows how co-ops spur the creation of local food-based economies and enhance low-income food access. Grocery Story is for everyone who eats. Whether you strive to eat more local and sustainable food, or are in support of community economic development, Grocery Story will leave you hungry to join the food co-op movement in your own community.
Download or read book The Consumer Co operative Sector written by John F. Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, consumer co-operation has experienced a difficult period since the 1970s. Large scale failures in France, Germany and Austria were accompanied by loss of market share in the UK (including the failure of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society and its takeover by its English counterpart). Even in the Nordic countries, where consumer co-operation has always been more robust, new challenges from the non-co-operative sector had to be confronted. How did co-operative organizations in different countries cope with these challenges? What were the processes of strategic renewal that they undertook? How successful were they? These are the key questions that the collection will address, culminating in an analysis by the editors of the effectiveness of strategic renewal in the co-operative sector. This book is a study of strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector, using eleven international case-studies to demonstrate how the concept has been applied over the last fifty years.
Download or read book Grocery Activism written by Craig B. Upright and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key period in the history of food cooperatives that continues to influence how we purchase organic food today Our notions of food co-ops generally don’t include images of baseball bat–wielding activists in the aisles. But in May 1975, this was the scene as a Marxist group known as the Co-op Organization took over the People’s Warehouse, a distribution center for more than a dozen small cooperative grocery stores in the Minneapolis area. The activist group’s goal: to curtail the sale of organic food. The People’s Warehouse quickly became one of the principal fronts in the political and social battle that Craig Upright explores in Grocery Activism. The story of the fraught relationship of new-wave cooperative grocery stores to the organic food industry, this book is an instructive case study in the history of activists intervening in capitalist markets to promote social change. Focusing on Minnesota, a state with both a long history of cooperative enterprise and the largest number of surviving independent cooperative stores, Grocery Activism looks back to the 1970s, when the mission of these organizations shifted from political activism to the promotion of natural and organic foods. Why, Upright asks, did two movements—promoting cooperative enterprise and sustainable agriculture—come together at this juncture? He analyzes the nexus of social movements and economic sociology, examining how new-wave cooperatives have pursued social change by imbuing products they sell with social values. Rather than trying to explain the success or failure of any individual cooperative, his work shows how members of this fraternity of organizations supported one another in their mutual quest to maintain fiscal solvency, promote better food-purchasing habits, support sustainable agricultural practices, and extol the virtues of cooperative organizing. A foundational chapter in the history of organic food, Grocery Activism clarifies the critical importance of this period in transforming the politics and economics of the grocery store in America.
Download or read book Assessing Consumer Perceptions of Food Cooperatives in the U S in Order to Improve Food Cooperatives Marketing Strategies written by Alicia A Franken and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dating back to the early 1800s, cooperatives are organizations that are democratically owned and controlled by their members. They exist in all sectors of the economy, such as in agriculture, manufacturing, financial services, housing, healthcare, and utilities ("What is a Coop?" n.d.). As alternatives to investor-owned corporations, co-ops are locally owned by individuals in their community and serve the needs of their members rather than providing profit to outside investors (Hazen, 2010). The retail food cooperatives that today provide natural, organic, and local foods to consumers across the country are consumer cooperatives and are owned by their members who shop in the store (Hazen, 2010). This iteration of the retail food cooperative sprang up during the 1960s and 1970s, in response to the environmental, political, and social concerns of the counterculture movement (Knupfer, 2013). Due to the increased consumer interest in organic and natural foods, today's food co-ops face competition from supermarkets, discount stores, and national chains such as Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe's, which now carry many of the products in which co-ops specialize (Haedicke, 2014). This competition puts the survival of co-ops in jeopardy, calling for greater insight into this phenomenon to keep food co-ops afloat. Food co-ops play a vital role in their local communities and economies - in a way that mainstream retailers selling organic foods cannot. To remain viable, it is therefore important for food co-ops to understand the current consumer perceptions in order to develop better marketing techniques that can help keep existing shoppers and engage new ones. ..." -- from introduction.
Download or read book Food from Farmer to Consumer written by United States. National Commission on Food Marketing and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consumers Cooperation written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Co ops written by William C. Ronco and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1974 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: A food co-op is a group of individuals and families which purchases food in bulk from a wholesaler, avoiding middle-man markup, and distributes to its members. The food co-op is an economical, political and qualitative alternative to food supermarket shopping. It is a response to inflationary prices. The food co-op popularity implies participants' needs for autonomy and more control over the forces that shape their lives. History of food co-ops from initial organizational meetings in Concord, Massachusetts to comparisons of 1930's and 1970's co-ops is presented. Chapters describe potential food savings and time commitments involved; organizational possibilities, growth and change over time; space, bookkeeping, financing and organizational needs; wholesale buying techniques; political ramifications. Appendices list wholesalers, national co-ops and co-op newsletters.
Download or read book Co op Stores and Buying Clubs written by Don Lefever and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manager s Manual for Consumer Cooperative Food Stores written by Consumer distribution corporation and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Co op Bibliography written by Elena Reyes and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building a Housewife s Paradise written by Tracey Deutsch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the history of food distribution in the United States explores the roles that gender, business, class, and the state played in the evolution of American grocery stores.
Download or read book Consumer s Cooperation written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Co operative Consumer written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Food Co op Handbook written by Co-op Handbook Collective and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prices and Profits of Leading Retail Food Chains 1970 74 written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
