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

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

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

Quick Take — Christmas 2025: the best pandoro and panettone at the supermarket according to Altroconsumo

Shortlist of Pandoro

  • Tre Marie – Il pandoro Magnifico – 69
  • Conad – Pandoro – 67
  • Favorina (Lidl) – Pandoro Classico 63
  • Melegatti – Il pandoro originale – 62
  • Maina – Il pandoro – 61
  • Motta – Il pandoro secondo Bruno Barbieri – 61
  • Bauli – Il pandoro di Verona – 61
  • Balocco – Il pandoro – 60
  • Bistefani – Pandoro – 58
  • Paluani – Il pandoro di Verona – 54

Shortlist of panettoni

  • Coop – Panettone Classico – 65
  • Giovanni Cova&Co – Panettone classico – 64
  • Le Grazie (Esselunga) – Panettone basso ricetta classica – 63
  • Maina – Il gran nocciolato – 62
  • Bauli – Il panettone classico – 58
  • Balocco – Il mandorlato – 58
  • Il viaggiator goloso – Panettone – 57
  • Fiasconaro – Panettone tradizionale – 56
  • Motta – Il panettone tradizionale Bruno Barbieri – 56
  • Tre Marie – Il panettone Milanese – 56
  • Duca Moscati (Eurospin) – Panettone – 54
  • Galup – Gran Galup tradizionale – 53

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Compiled 6 December, updated 8 December 2025

Quick Take — The most convenient supermarket and discount chains

As Food Fact rightly says , ‘The most popular shopping in supermarkets and hypermarkets is mixed:

In this category we have Famila and Famila Superstore (Selex) as the first insignia, followed by Coop, Conad, Panorama. Interspar, Esselunga Superstore Carrefour Market close the ranking.

P.S.: I wonder how the signs in the category mentioned below that of Iper and Super – I am referring to ‘mixed shopping’ (discount) – can be compared since I understand that some signs do not have branded products but only private label products.