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Aspiag Despar: €8 million seizure for using co-op workers
Corriere della Sera 9 January 2025
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Delivery in India : Zomato delivers in 15 minutes
Source
The race in the speed of home meal delivery accelerates in Asia, following Walmart's 30-minute delivery in China.
Below a news item from 2021 (Zomato is not doing so well, in Italy it is in and out).
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More expensive breakfast as prices of coffee, cocoa and orange juice soar
Republic 7 January 2025
about coffee read
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Lidl enters the car market: here is its electric car
After the scooter comes the car whose real strength is its range: thanks to a 32 kWh battery, the Finn covers up to 300 km on a single charge, surpassing even rivals such as the Dacia Spring. Source
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Red wine consumption in France has decreased by about 90% since the 1970s
The industry is also grappling with a sharp drop in demand from China, one of its main export markets, and the impact of climate change. Source. On France and wine read also here.
The situation will be exacerbated byUS labelling.
Below: wine labelled with Nutri- score that had caused a stir.
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USA : alcohol like cigarettes, must be labelled
So says the Surgeon General of the United States who is the chief executive of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the spokesman for public health issues within the federal government.
NYTimes
On the subject read this article
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Nutella exhibition at the Maxxi in Rome: was it necessary?
I share the thought of Il Fatto Alimentare: 'it is disturbing to think of initiatives aimed at children to promote a jar that could be taken as a symbol of junk food... Following this model, the new minister Alessandro Giuli could host an exhibition with workshops for children by Coca-Cola in the summer and replicate with McDonald's in the autumn. They are not Italian brands like Nutella, it is true, but they are produced with local raw materials (including Coca-Cola) and this is probably enough to promote them in the Olympus of Made in Italy food and perhaps include them in the Mediterranean diet model of the 21st century'.
I hope some of you remember Slow Food's denunciation of Mc Donald's.
On the subject, read also this article.
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YouTube beats Netflix
Netflix added over 20 million new subscribers during this year... It seems a paradox: instead of making Netflix more like YouTube, it is YouTube copying Netflix. The channels will become the new TV series, organised by season and episode. As of today, YouTube already does frightening numbers on TVs: users watch more than 1 billion hours of YouTube content on their TVs every day, and in 2023, according to Nielsen, YouTube was the absolute leader in streaming viewing time in the US...And here comes the big question for Netflix. Since 2012, when it launched its first original, it has spent over $120 billion on original productions. YouTube, over the same period, has spent 0.
Source: Technicisms
