Giuseppe Caprotti: ‘From trolleys to history, the luck of living more lives’

What will we read about in your new book? ‘I tell another side of the family through two extraordinary explorers: my eponymous ancestor Giuseppe Caprotti, who lived thirty years in Yemen, and my great uncle Gianni Albertini, a skier and mountaineer who explored the North Pole’.

Walmart shows Trump’s duties fall on Americans

Trump has convinced his voters that tariffs will be paid by foreign exporters and not by American consumers. But soon even the most ardent Maga supporter, once at the checkout counter of a supermarket, will get the suspicion that the opposite is happening. The Sheet 26 August 2025

Summary of my speech at the Salone del Risparmio, Milan on 16 April 2025

If there is no clarity, irrational dynamics of jealousy and annoyance are triggered, which become grains of sand in the wheels of the company. People start to stop talking to each other, or to do so through other people, or to write to each other. And at that point, the disaster begins

Ideas on the internationalisation of Italian large-scale retail trade from the book “Le Ossa dei Caprotti” at the Stati Generali dell’Export, Milan 11 October 2024

From the missed national champion of the 1960s, with GS – Esselunga, to the multi-regional companies of today. The opportunities missed by Italian large-scale retailers in e-commerce but also in the acquisitions that foreign retailers are making instead

The dwarfism of the Italian large-scale retail trade, Caprotti: ‘Coop and Conad do not exist’

The original headline, later removed by Corriere ortofrutticolo, is the one above. I also quote below the headline as revised by the newspaper. Obviously, as is easily understood when reading the article, I have never ‘attacked the identity of the central cooperatives’