Suggestion
Box
Q.
A list of all bulk items would help customers
sooo much. It can be daunting.
A. Please talk with Bob or
Leigh to
brainstorm how to implement this excellent suggestion.
Q. So many of our gifts in
the gift
section are made in China.
We should really raise the bar on this!!! Fair trade, perhaps.… Local,
even
better!
A. Our Nutrition and
Education
committee is working on a product manual. If you would like to join
this
committee or provide input, please talk to the front desk for contact
information.
Q. Please label items that
are new to
the Coop on shelf near the item. Thanks.
A. This is a great
suggestion. We will
work towards doing this.
Q. We should advertise our
“Meal Deals”
better. Any ideas? A cashier thinks we should print out a little notice
and
hand it out. Is it something you want to push?
A. Thanks for your
suggestion. We’ll
look into some promotion ideas.
Q. Please paint the HWFC
facade! Paint
is peeling badly.
A. We are waiting for the
landlord to
repair the brick before we can paint.
Q. How ’bout we have a
kombucha exchange?
If people want “babies” they could contact someone from an exchange
list of
people willing to offer a culture and information.
A. You may use our bulletin
boards to
organize a group.
Q. Where’s the brewer’s
yeast, please?
A. We have packaged brewer’s
yeast in
HaBA under the Spirutein.
Our bulk supplier no longer offers brewer’s yeast.
Q. Put up an air lock for
the front
door.
A. We’re looking into an air
curtain.
It’s in the 2007 budget.
Q. What is the protocol for
answering
these “suggestions/questions” slips? How many fall outside or between
department boundaries?
A. I am a member worker. I
talk with
the manager or managers who deal with the specific area of concern, We
insure
that no voice goes unheard.
Q. The Brattleboro Co-op
carries
aspirin. I am tired of going to CVS, but I also don’t want us to
support
J&J or BMS or any other big sleazy pharmacy. Can we carry or
special order
aspirin from a less ethically challenged company?
A. Aspirin is not a natural
product and
does not meet our buying standards.
Q. Get gift certificates
that you just
write the amount in. $25 is too small an amount.
A. In the not too distant
future we
will be implementing a gift card system.
Q. Locate the “milk bottle
returns,”
where you get the ticket for the number of bottles returned, and the
place
where you put the bottles closer to each other.
A. We have thought about
this in the
past, and it makes a lot of sense. The space issue is rearing its ugly
head
again, and we prefer to leave it where it is at this point in time.
Q. Is there any way we could
offer a
delivery service for the elderly or disabled?
A. While we would love to
provide such
a service, it is just not feasible at this time.
Q. There are seriously
dangerous pot
holes in the parking lot. We’ve got to fix them.
A. We have asked our
landlord to fix
them. Thanks for the reminder to remind him that it’s time for him to
fulfill
his responsibility.
Q. Melrose apples are great,
but I
hardly saw any this year. I would like them to be more available, if
possible.
A. It wasn’t a very good
year for Melrose
apples. We do
what we can.
Q. Do bananas have to be
wrapped in plastic?
A. Yes, they come that way.
Alas,
organic or not, plastic is part of the banana industry.
Q. WiFi for the café
and/or community room.
A. We would love to do this
as part of
an expansion or reset in the future.
Q. In a food co-op, food
presentation
should be top priority. Please get new oat bins. The current ones are
broken.
A. Our current bins use the
display
space efficiently. Yes, the lids are broken, and we need to find an
attractive
approach to dispensing oats.
Q. The bulk foods aisle is
crowded and difficult
to negotiate. If the foods we now carry on opposing shelves were
separated (leaving
only one bulk aisle in each of two different rows) the congestion could
be alleviated.
A. Thank you for this novel
approach to
our space issues. We prefer our current approach.
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