Word: coops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Cooperative Society and one of the company's former directors squared off for a legal firefight yesterday over Coop election procedures...
...letter to Milton P. Brown. Filene Professor of Retailing at the Business School and president of the Coop, former director Donald Steele threatened a lawsuit against the society by this Friday unless it approves his rejected nominating petition of last spring...
...petition, which carried over 130 names, nominated Steele to the Board of Directors, a position-he-quit in 1971 to accept a job as manager of the Coop's Law School branch. Lawyers for the Coop disqualified over 40 of the names for violations of form, leaving Steele 11 short of the 100 signatures needed to place him on the ballot...
...Coop locations are showing increased sales and profits, he continued. Although he declined to give a profit breakdown by department. Davis said that textbook sales show no profit even though the volume is very high. "No college book store is making money on textbooks, because the mark-up is too low," he said...
...problem the Harvard Square Coop now faces is its crowded quarters, which limit the variety of goods any one department can stock. Davis said. The Square store is trying to meet this problem by redesigning some departments, including the tennis shop, which has been enlarged, and the insignia shop--a department carrying merchandise with Harvard emblems--which has been relocated. The Coop has also added a small natural foods department...