Retail
Avocado grower and distributor Villita Avocados, Inc. has begun fulfilling orders utilizing specially-made mesh produce bags that are 100 percent compostable.
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Food: value sales up, but volumes down
2024-01-11 00:00
In November 2023, retail sales are estimated to grow cyclically by 0.4% in value and 0.2% in volume. Food sales in value are up (+0.2%) while sales in volume are down (-0.2%); sales of non-food goods are,
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Thanks to MDD, large-scale retailers grow their suppliers
2024-01-11 00:00
The national distribution sector and the current context will be the protagonists at Marca as part of the inaugural conference organised by ADM - Associazione Distribuzione Moderna and The European House Ambrosetti scheduled for Tuesday 16 January, but yesterday, at the conference 'Marca del Distributore e Made
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Weak consumption: measures are needed to support demand in 2024
2024-01-11 00:00
Data released by Istat on retail sales in November (click here to read more) show a trend increase in value of +1.5%, which corresponds to a decline in volume of -2.2%.
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Demand on a retail front is holding up extremely well in Ireland
2024-01-11 00:00
Demand on a retail front is holding up extremely well in Ireland, following a busy holiday period. The cold snap we are experiencing is likely boosting consumption and sales. Prices are holding steady accordingly. Food service trade is slightly lacklustre although still busy, as to be expected
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Festivities in the large-scale retail trade: heat and inadequate quality limited sales
2024-01-11 00:00
The closing of the old year and the beginning of the new one, with all the festivities in between, show lights and shadows for the fruit and vegetable department in the Italian large-scale retail trade. The calendar has shifted the balance of the Christmas weeks somewhat and, just considering weeks 51, 52 in 2023 and 1 in 2024
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Tesco and Marks & Spencer: Christmas winners
2024-01-11 00:00
UK: East of England Co-op goes viral
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Growers offer MPs seven-point plan to save UK food producers
2024-01-10 16:00
UK food producer representatives gave a damning indictment of British supermarket pricing and intimidation practices in an EFRA Committee meeting on 9 January.
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Discounted berries in Tesco’s latest price drive
2024-01-10 11:00
Berries are among more than 150 items to be discounted in a new price-cutting round at Tesco.
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Deregulation seems to have become the new buzzword in Argentina since President Javier Milei (top photo) took office. While the market has been in the hands of the state for years, things have changed with the new Decree on Needs and Emergencies (Dnu) published
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"We hope that supermarkets will sufficiently appreciate the proximity and quality of Spanish avocados"
2024-01-10 00:00
In the second week of January, most of the avocado production in the province of Huelva is still on the trees. "In fact, the harvest is just beginning now. Normally, some fruit is already picked in December and there is some commercial pressure, but this year the start has been delayed a bit,"
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Tesco has cut the price of more than 150 everyday items including strawberries and blueberries
2024-01-10 00:00
SPAR Slovenia phase out single-use F&V plastic bags and receive FDI Award Slovenia
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#Repartofresh. Yes con Te (Selex): in fruit and vegetables the expression of the territory
2024-01-09 00:00
Territoriality and seasonality are for many retailers the strategic drivers to characterise and enhance the offer of the fruit and vegetable department. No exception is the Ce.Di. Marche Sì con Te (Selex), which concretises these assets with a communication ad
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“Sweet Palermo color mixes are gaining shelf space”
2024-01-09 00:00
Red, yellow, orange and chocolate… Dutch grower Marcel van Kester cultivates the whole range of colours of Sweet Palermo, the surprisingly sweet pointed pepper. “Not just the red variant, but all the colours excel in terms of taste. That remains the brand’s key strength,” he says. Ever
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McDonald's is releasing a 'never-before-seen' fruity version
2024-01-09 00:00
Norway's Kiwi cuts food waste by more than a half
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Discovering Interspar Parma
2024-01-09 00:00
We start the year with the usual surveys of large-scale retail shops, and this week we visited the Interspar shop in Parma, a 2,500 m2 shop that has been open for seven years. The structure is beautiful and modern, very bright, with the fruit and vegetable department located in
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Cashless supermarkets, also Esselunga and Pam to adopt them
2024-01-09 00:00
We do not yet know whether there will be a boom in cashierless supermarkets this year. Although the assumptions seem to be there, as Esselunga and Pam Panorama have also announced investments in this direction;
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French retail rebels against supplier price increases
2024-01-09 00:00
Inflation does not only frighten consumers but also retail chains, which is why some retail chains in France are taking action in an attempt to curb the excessive price increases practised by some big names in the food sector, as reported by Il Sole
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A man assaulted with a watermelon
2024-01-09 00:00
A bizarre incident at a New Hampshire supermarket has police baffled after a person was reportedly attacked with a watermelon. The Tilton Police Department confirmed that they were called to the Market Basket on Market Street shortly after 6 p.m. on Thursday, where they found a customer who was
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France, declaring deglazing on packaging becomes law?
2024-01-09 00:00
In France, declaring weight reduction on packaging is about to become law. According to the online magazine foodretail.es, the French government has in fact sent a proposal to the European Commission to make it compulsory to declare the reduction in weight on packaging.
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