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Boom in ‘without’ foods
AF 20 January 2025
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Private label products: -2.2% drop in value and -2.4% in volume in December
and industrial brand closed the month of December in the negative, with a drop of -0.7% in value and -1.3% in volume.
Undoubtedly lower inflation contributed to this situation.
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Three American distribution companies among the 50 most profitable in the world in 2024
These are Amazon, Walmart and The Home Depot. Source (based on Fortune).
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No more fake online reviews, Council of Ministers approves bill
Source.
On the problems with Tripadvisor in the Stalking affair read here.
Below: the terrace of the QB in Brescia, closed many years ago. I talked about it in my book Le Ossa dei Caprotti.
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Shrinkinflation: Amazon and Ikea, in France, offer much smaller houses (than before)
Housing in the age of inflation: when developers offer to live more cramped lives. In a context of an acute housing crisis and forced purchasing power, developers are reducing the size of flats and houses for sale.
In France, the average flat has always been 114 square metres, here it is around 60 square metres.
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Whole Foods sells – through e-commerce – packaged products where it has no outlets
its partnership with parent company Amazon, Whole Foods is 'able to expand our products, our offering ... beyond our physical shops and our e-commerce business, and also offer them on the core Amazon.com business," noted [CEO] Oblisk. "Last year, we were able to do that with our long-life 365 private label products, which was exciting. For me, the best part is that when we look at the customers who bought those items online, most of them don't live anywhere near a Whole Foods and have never bought a Whole Foods before."
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Lidl would export ‘Italian’ food worth € 2.4 billion
AF 13 January 2025. I put it in conditional because it is not clear to me what is considered Italian.
On the gap between the growth of discounters and 'traditional' GD read here.
