Le Ossa dei Caprotti’ presentation – Soroptimist, 29 October 2025

I really stopped. During that long difficult period we talked about earlier, I stopped completely. It was a time of silence, of isolation. But then, with the end of the court case and Covid, I chose to look forward. I decided to see the Covid crisis as an opportunity to help. From there my personal rebirth and my work in the Guido Venosta Foundation was born

Quick Take — Whole Foods Market private label products land in Singapore

An initial assortment of almost 300 products will be sold on Amazon platforms in the region, as well as on local grocery shops

The leading organic grocery shop will start with nearly 300 private label products in many categories, adding to the tens of thousands of grocery and everyday essentials from Amazon.sg, Amazon Fresh and local grocery and speciality retailers in the region.

In addition, exclusive brands from Whole Foods Market – acquired by Amazon in 2017- will be available in-store at Little Farms, a natural and organic supermarket in Singapore, which has eight locations across the city-state .

Whole Foods has long been selling its products where it has no shops, via the web: the Italians could have taken the cue to export to the rest of the world by developing e-commerce.

Unfortunately, only the Americans, the Germans – Lidl- and the Chinese – Temu – are doing this with their marketplaces.

Read also : Amazon Uk converts Amazon Fresh to Whole Foods and its platform beats the marketplace

Below the private-label line of Whole Foods sold abroad. Compiled 23 September, updated 24 September 2025

Giuseppe Caprotti’s social commitment to Esselunga. The people: Esselunga’s Employees

"Human resources are 'the pillar' on which our success is based and it is stated that teamwork 'is the basis for achieving results'. This is why, for example, 'Esselunga encourages its employees to work in groups in which everyone expresses their potential within shared objectives'. Source: Esselunga Social Report 2003

Giuseppe Caprotti’s social commitment at Esselunga: caring for the environment, for people

The one related to care and concern for the environment is a project that goes back a long way, to the 1980s, the first years I spent at Esselunga, and began with organic and natural products in general. It is also the project I am most fond of because it had a soul, a social purpose, as well as a business purpose.

Quick Take — Amazon and the $100 billion grocery business

Amazon claimed to sell $100 billion of consumer packaged goods.

Two big problemsremain : fresh produce and the fact that it has not yet found an integration between all the group’s brands.

Here are the latest tests:

  1. Co-location of selections from Whole Foods Market, Amazon.com and Amazon Fresh in the same distribution centre, allowing customers to purchase items from all three brands and have them delivered in one order
  2. Open a small-format grocery shop under the same roof as Whole Foods Market in Chicago, allowing customers to purchase their favourite natural and organic products from Whole Foods and get a larger assortment of products from Amazon in one trip.
  3. Launching Whole Foods Market’s Daily Shop, a fast-food fast-shop format.

p.s.: the fact that there are ‘too many’ signs and too many tests is not a good sign. for the food industry: Walmart is definitely dominant and has much clearer ideas.