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Amazon’s HQ2: 3 Ripple Effects for Associations

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Competition for business and personal space may heat up too: Amazon is widely expected drive up already-expensive real estate prices in the region, making both office space and housing harder to come by. Those trends might lead some organizations to look for homes in other nearby regions that didn’t get the nod from Amazon.

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How Nonprofit Grocery Stores Are Filling the Gap

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For example, last year Virginia grocery chain Farm Fresh closed its doors after its parent company decided to focus on its wholesale business—a situation that nearly proved tragic but was saved from a worse fate after other major national grocers, such as Harris Teeter and Kroger, stepped in to purchase most of the buildings.

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What We Can Learn From Sermo – and What We Can’t

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The biggest threat to associations today is the internet pure play – the web-only organization that delivers the core value of associations, without any of the financial or cultural baggage. Her examples of how Sermo can advance health care were engaging and compelling. It’s fertile ground for fraud, abuse or price manipulation.