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Eataly Verona: the reasons for the bankruptcy and the future of the workers


Giosuè Rossi, secretary Fisascat Cisl Verona: What are the reasons? There are many reasons, starting with high rent costs... Please explain further. The shop is in a somewhat peripheral location, opposite the trade fair, in a non-tourist area with a potential clientele that is not high spenders. Or at any rate a clientele that is difficult to retain: in the area there are several companies, some professional orders, a bank with its own canteen. For the rest it is a residential area, a bit 'in-between', we might say. It has nothing to do with Verona centre. Source

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Amazon and the $100 billion grocery business


Amazon claimed to sell $100 billion of consumer packaged goods. Two big problemsremain : fresh produce and the fact that it has not yet found an integration between all the group's brands. Here are the latest tests: Co-location of selections from Whole Foods Market, Amazon.com and Amazon Fresh in the same distribution centre, allowing customers to purchase items from all three brands and have them delivered in one order Open a small-format grocery shop under the same roof as Whole Foods Market in Chicago, allowing customers to purchase their favourite natural and organic products from Whole Foods and get a larger assortment of products from Amazon in one trip. Launching Whole Foods Market's Daily Shop, a fast-food fast-shop format. p.s.: the fact that there are 'too many' signs and too many tests is not a good sign. for the food industry: Walmart is definitely dominant and has much clearer ideas.

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Glovo and Delivery Hero fined for forming a commercial cartel


The European Commission for the first time sanctions a cartel of delivery platforms for not competing on hiring talent. Glovo and its parent company Delivery Hero, two leading names in home delivery services, have been fined a total of €359 million (€223.2 million for Delivery Hero and €105.7 million for Glovo) for participating in a cartel active for four years within the European Economic Area, a trade agreement to restrict competition.

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Rome: discounters at 24.6%


The supermarket model, in Lazio, is the pivot on which the entire distribution machine revolves: with 6.52 billion euro turnover (6.9%), it now covers 55.1% of the market, marking an increase of 2.12 percentage points in share compared to the previous year. A confirmation of the centrality of this format in a city that rewards proximity and frequency of purchase. discounters continue their run, recording a 6.1% increase in turnover to EUR 2.91 billion, with a market share of almost 24.6%. This confirms that, even in a metropolitan context, price remains one of the main purchasing drivers, especially in times of inflation... Conad and Selex leaders. Eurospin follows. Hypermarkets are doing badly.

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Alarmed by Trump’s cuts, scientists are talking weather and climate science. For 100 hours


Meteorologists and climate researchers aim to run a livestream for 100 hours to protest the Trump administration's cuts to weather and climate research... Also : the Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget cuts about 90 per cent of funding for one of the country's biological and ecological research programmes. Known as the Ecosystems Mission Area, the programme is part of the United States. Geological Survey and studies almost every aspect of the ecology and biology of natural and human-altered landscapes and waters across the country. The proposed 2026 budget allocates $29 million to the project, a cut from its current funding level of $293 million. The budget proposal also reduces funding for other programmes in the United States. Geological Survey, as well as other federal science agencies. The budget still has to be approved by Congress, and scientists are seizing the opportunity to save the E.M.A. In early May, more than 70 scientific societies and universities signed a letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, urging him not to eliminate the programme... Source Below: a recent article on climate change

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USA: department store market share from over 14% in 1990 to less than 3% in 2024 (-78%)


a collapse that clearly photographs the structural change taking place. But the decline of department stores is not a thunderbolt. For years, these department stores have struggled to compete with the rise of e-commerce, aggressive discount platforms such as Temu and Shein, but also direct-to-consumer brands. The new generations, moreover, prefer more curated, personalised and digital shopping experiences, far removed from the dispersed logic of the large generalist stores, and so the metamorphosis underway is not just a commercial fact, but a social and cultural signal, showing that the future of retail passes through innovation, selection and competitive pricing, and does not care about the size of its spaces...

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