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January 19, 2001--SuperMarket Coop e-Update
#26
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This week has just flown
by and I have been busy reconnecting with folks and talking with
the cooperatives about the holiday sales and new ideas for marketing
in 2001.
In addition to continuing
to promote the retail Web site, we are starting to focus on the
Virtual CSA concept that emerged from the team, while we were
in Las Vegas. We envision a 12 month subscription, with one shipment
each month from a different SuperMarket Cooperative; involving
cooperatives with
fresh produce, honey and jam products, rice, cheese and possibly
meat products. The coop of the month would include recipes and
a history.
We are starting to put together
ideas for a pilot phase and determine costs and logistics for
making it happen. If any of you have had experiences with CSA's
or subscription ordering that you think might help us get started,
please give me a shout at webmaster@ruralco.org. What sort of information
you would want to know about our cooperatives, if quarterly or
yearly subscriptions appeal to you, what values you put in supporting
this kind of an effort by small cooperatives, any reactions would
be helpful.
We have some new things on
the site from Mileston. A large variety of aprons, all unique,
as well as placemats. We were also promised some quilted baby
blankets, but they were bought up before they even made it to
the site. We hope to put up the pictures next week for made to
order. You
can check out the placemats here.
And again, don't forget to
order your Fall River Wild Rice chips for your Super Bowl Parties
or staff meetings! Although we do not yet have the salsa, we
will soon. Choose half Garlic and half Natural! Follow
this link to take a look.
Thanks again,
In cooperation,
Rebecca Bond
SuperMarket Project Manager
A project of The Rural Coalition
1012 14th Street NW Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 628-7160 Fax (202) 628-7165
Toll Free 1-866-RURAL-80
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