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After trying to buy Carrefour in 2021 , the Canadian company had moved in 2024 to acquire 7 Eleven
In both cases, protectionism - of France and Japan - caused the deals to fail.
The Press 18 July 2025
on deforestation read also here
And we are not talking about Chinese products but Barilla.
After Lidl ' s marketplace, Tik Tok's platform, here is the sale of food products by Temu.
Amazon, which is testing the food marketplace, has become the company with the best reputation in Italian distribution .
From the Italian companies, the only 'big news of the summer' is this: Decò on board, the new service of the Arena Group (VéGé): a galley via telephone, thanks to physical points of sale.
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...With 21 per cent of the workforce in the food supply chain performed by immigrants, including nearly half a million grocery shop workers, mass detentions and deportations pose a serious threat to industry and communities. The fear of ICE actions also affects consumers, as the US is home to 47.8 million immigrants.
Documented raids have occurred in Pennsylvania and California at grocery shops. Reports of a fruit and vegetable market remaining empty in Los Angeles because shoppers feared a crackdown speak volumes.
So what tools do grocery shops have to protect their teams and their customers? It goes beyond politics: illegal ICE raids are a violation of constitutional Fourth Amendment rights (protection from unreasonable searches and seizures). For this reason, the most important thing any business owner can do is to make sure that everyone, both team members and clients, are aware of their rights and the rights of others in the event of ICE actions...
Source : Progressive Grocer
P.S.: ICE is Trump's 'anti-immigrant militia'
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Between 2023 and 2024, Indoneisa lost 216,00 hectares of forest, of which 25% for palm oil cultivation
You can read about the law here
"... the regional councillor of the Mixed Group, Stefano Valdegamberi, who in a note denounces the expansion of a parallel system made up of forced labour, exploitation, tax evasion and fraud on traceability, which is bringing honest farming to its knees, leading to the lowering of prices...
In the Veneto region, Valdegamberi reports the activity of companies created with the sole purpose of importing vulnerable foreign labour, sometimes in return for bribes of up to eight thousand euro.
The working conditions offered are said to be seriously degrading, with wages of 2-3 euro per hour and housing situations described as 'inhuman'. The agricultural products obtained through this system would then be placed in large-scale distribution at prices lower than the real production costs...
Read : Unfair practices : The failure of regulations and Francesco Mutti : Chinese imports damage the 'dignity' of Italian tomatoes
...Consumers are already paying more at the supermarket. At the end of May, the average price of a pound of ground roasted coffee in the US was $7.93, compared to $5.99 for the same period last year, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics...
It will take about three months after the tariff takes effect for consumers to see higher prices in shops
despite trade tensions in the US Walmart's warehouse chain reaches the tipping point to become one of the fastest growing foreign retailers in the country...
Although economic momentum has slowed in China, Sam's Club's revenue grew more than 40 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, as consumers flocked to the stores for their low prices and bulk purchases...
Walmart's sales in China rose 17 per cent to $20 billion in the last fiscal year. Eight of Sam's Club shops are each expected to record half a billion dollars in sales this year, Walmart China CEO Christina Zhu told investors in April...
Half of Walmart's sales in China take place online, compared to less than 20 per cent in the US. To fulfill e-commerce orders, China CEO Zhu described Sam's Club locations as "mother clubs" that accumulate goods for networks of eight to 15 delivery hubs serving dense neighbourhoods within a three-mile radius...
About Sam's Club discounters read here.
