If Men Were Angels
This thoughtful letter arrives just in time for this holiday edition of the Pundit: Your comments regarding the SEC and FDA in the piece, entitled So Much For Regulation: SEC Misses A Big One…Why Think FDA Will Do Better? — were apropos. Would it not be reasonable to consider an underlying issue to be the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Gifts From The Heart
We received this heartwarming message just in time for Christmas: Thank you for your continued service to the produce community. I wanted to take a second to share with you a peek at the heart of some of the people in the produce industry. After viewing a Thanksgiving news story about the lack of food […]
2009 Resolutions
The year end holidays are a time for a break but also a time for reflection. On the one hand, everyone in this industry has something to be thankful for. Selling a non-discretionary product is just about the best place to be in a recession. We’ve been making this point for the last few months […]
Project Sombrero:
Wal-Mart To Test
New Latino Store Concept
For several years now, the success of Wal-Mart in Mexico has been so substantial that Wal-Mart has been the largest private employer in the country, and the papers have been filled with articles exclaiming its achievements, such as Wal-Mexico: Wal-Mart’s Biggest Success. More recently the company announced it was going to offer a separate membership […]
Dispatches From The Field
A lot of the work we undertake to help the industry is not actually represented on the Pundit. In fact sometimes all the travel and time interferes with producing as many Pundits as we might like. We have, however, found that there are many ways to serve. We’ve been asked to provide an update from […]
Message To President-Elect Obama:
Quit Smoking And Eat Your Broccoli!
President-elect Barack Obama is a remarkably disciplined man. So it is a testimony to the enormously addictive habit of smoking that during a recent interview on Meet the Press, he confessed to Tom Brokaw that his earlier claim to Ellen DeGeneres to have given up smoking wasn’t quite true: MR. BROKAW: Finally, Mr. President-elect, the […]
Perishable Thoughts —
Courage To Bet On Your Ideas
The Times of London ran a piece, titled, Fed Throws Out the Rulebook, which pointed out the unprecedented nature of the actions by the Federal Reserve Board: The Federal Reserve yesterday threw away the monetary policy rule book it has been using for 50 years in its most dramatic effort yet to stem the global […]
Leadership Symposium
Offers Stimulating Speakers
When Michael Engeman of the La Manna group in Australia was applying to the Tip Murphy Scholarship for Leadership Excellence — a scholarship which, as we reported here, he eventually won — he focused in on two of the topics at the upcoming Leadership Symposium that he was especially interested in learning about: After doing […]
Pundit Mailbag — Passing The Legacy
Our piece, PMA FIT Awards 1st Tip Murphy Scholarship: Michael Engeman Of La Manna In Australia To Attend Leadership Symposium, which followed up on our piece, Scholarships Available To Industry Through tip Murphy Legacy Fund, brought some nice responses. Jim Still, founder of Thermal Tech and inventor of TarpLess Ripening, has contributed previously, including here, […]
So Much For Regulation:
SEC Misses A Big One…
Why Think FDA Will Do Better?
When it comes to those who see increased government regulation as some kind of panacea for food safety problems, the case of Bernard L. Madoff and his alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme offers instruction. It turns out that the S.E.C., the regulator body that oversees securities markets and is supposed to protect investors, did nothing […]
