GDO, Sunday yes or no?
In a nutshell: Coop is calling for a law on Sunday closures (= everyone closed) because it is unable to establish itself as a market leader, like Mercadona in Spain
In Italy, small towns are emptying, even of shops: will Amazon Now provide the service in the future?
Our distributors – such as Selex and Conad – who operate consortia, and thus are unable, with some exceptions, to offer a widespread e-commerce and delivery service for basic food and household products throughout Italy – risk having to leave space and opportunity to Amazon Now over time
Italians at the bar, restaurant or pizzeria often drink bad coffee
Coffee drunk at the café is bad and climate change threatens to exacerbate its inflationary effects, but perhaps there is hope if training and investment is made in a network of inspections
Lusetti (Confcommercio): ‘Let’s not harass farmers. Price rises cause energy and climate’ (and raw materials)
The fact of not dealing directly with farmers CANNOT be a boast because it means that those who buy, in the large-scale retail trade, are not doing it well because they accept intermediaries and opacity in the purchase prices and margins of all the actors in the chain. Most probably, by negotiating directly with farmers, they could obtain better prices that would benefit their customers
Mercosur: yes or no?
Why France and Italy have allied themselves to say no, at least for the time being, to the ratification of Mercosur, whose ratification must be considered very carefully: the health of Europeans depends on it
Our relationship with FOOD over the last 100 YEARS has changed a lot: how?
How has our relationship with food changed over the last hundred years? In the first episode of the docuseries “What We Eat”, produced together with @foodunfolded with the support of EIT Food and co-funded by the European Union, we retrace the evolution of our relationship with what we eat, which has been turned upside down in just one century
San Benedetto – The Food Fact: a lawsuit filed with the sole purpose of intimidating and silencing those who criticise power
In Italy, all too often, judicial institutions are used with those who have fewer resources. It usually starts with a very often specious letter from the criminal prosecutor, simply to try to silence those who are annoying
PDO & PGI certifications
‘Two thirds of the pork legs processed in Italy come from pigs bred in Spain and Northern Europe…’. And unfortunately some scandals – such as prosciuttopoli – have shaken the sector: we need ad hoc marketing campaigns that explain the value of the PDO
JBS: skyrocketing meat prices in the US amid use of anti-obesity drugs and increasing protein consumption
The anti-obesity molecule revolution is challenging the model of the industry giants, which could lose up to USD 90 billion in the US by 2031. As a result, multinationals are trying to switch to Europe and a more protein-rich offer. And US restaurants – given the level of meat inflation – are struggling and reducing staff and portions of their dishes
Walmart launches a regenerative rice growing project in its home state of Arkansas
Walmart works for better water management, optimised fertiliser application and crop rotation to improve soil quality and biodiversity
The best industrial panettone and pandoro
Seasonal cake lists evaluated by experts clear the private label of discounters
New Princes will buy Carrefour Italia supermarkets: the difference between cheer and reality
One cannot improvise as a retailer and, above all, it is not always the case that aggregating several realities, with different cultures, brings strength: the acquisition of Newlat reminds me of the events of Standa and those of Auchan-Conad, but also of the Carrefour- Promodes merger or the events of Walgreens with Boots. Not to mention the lesson of the bankruptcy of Sears or that of the closure of Dominick’s for manifest incompetence
