India’s Farmers And Traders
Counter Wal-Mart By Competing
We’ve run several pieces regarding Wal-Mart’s effort to expand in India. These pieces include, Wal-Mart Franchise, Wal-Mart Eyes India For Future Growth and Wal-Mart In India Faces Tremendous Obstacles. One of the problems Wal-Mart will confront is that the farmers and traders of India are deeply opposed. In fact, as this story explains, farmers and […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Is Wal-Mart To Blame
For The Decline Of The Middle Class?
We ran a piece that both recognized the enthusiasm Wegmans elicits in media reports and pointed out that Wal-Mart just doesn’t get the credit it deserves: …all this talk about customers who have “exuberantly danced” into the store, who “squeal with delight” and who “swoon” over the produce tells us less about the quality of […]
Florida Produce Promoted
On Big Apple Big Screen
If you were in Times Square this holiday season, you probably looked up at the giant CBS Super Screen and saw a Fresh from Florida message: New York City’s “Big Apple” had some culinary company — namely citrus, tropicals, and other fruits and vegetables that are “Fresh from Florida.” Visitors to Times Square Plaza during […]
Making Bitter Veggies Sweeter May
Be Key To Increased Consumption
We’ve written many pieces on industry efforts to get children to eat more produce — from a Produce for Better Health award-winning school teacher to a whole series on cartoon marketing to the Food Dudes program in Ireland, UFFVA’s efforts to get federal funding for school and other programs and PMA’s deal with Scholastic. Yet […]
Traceability Group Meets Tuesday
Today, in Atlanta, is the first meeting of the trade’s traceability initiative. It is a milestone for the industry and one The Pundit has been dedicated to preparing the ground work for, for a very long time: We started out by asking Gary Fleming, Vice President of Industry Technology and Standards of the Produce Marketing […]
Wegmans Phasing Out Tobacco
Speaking of Social Responsibility, Wegmans, which is so often a leader in the food industry, issued an announcement that it will no longer sell cigarettes and other tobacco products. Wegmans to Stop Selling Cigarettes Rochester, NY — It was announced today that beginning Sunday, February 10, cigarettes and other tobacco products will no longer be […]
A Call For An Industrywide Sustainability And Social
Responsibility Initiative
Our piece, Michael Pollan’s Sustainability Arguments Unsustainable In Context Of Economics, led to an important letter from Tim York, President of Markon Cooperative. In this letter, Tim proposes nothing less than a new industry initiative. He warns us that if we do not work together to create industry standards for sustainability, buyers will wind up […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Follow-up On PMAEF Student Follow-up
Our pieces, PMA Education Foundation Looks To Attract And Retain New Industry Talent, Pundit’s Mailbag — Protocol Lesson For PMA Education Foundation Students and PMA Education Foundation Serious About Growing The Industry have all dealt with PMA’s recently formed Education Foundation, the experience of individuals who have interacted with students brought to industry events through […]
New Year Of
Challenges And Opportunities
Having returned from an extended family trip to Maui, we want to kick off the New Year by wishing all of our Pundit readers a happy, health and prosperous 2008. We also want to welcome the Vidalia Onion Committee as our newest sponsor. Pomposity being an occupational hazard of punditry, we are pleased to have […]
Cornell, March 9-14, 2008… An Exceptional Experience Awaits
Winston Churchill advised us of the following when it came to language education: “Naturally I am biased in favour of boys learning English; and then I would let the clever learn Latin as an honour and Greek as a treat.” When it comes to produce industry education, the Pundit advises that anyone who has the […]
