Pundit’s Mailbag —
A Different Definition Of Organic Health
Our piece Is Organic Produce Healthier? brought this letter from a producer of upscale and natural salad dressings who responded to the piece as a consumer: With all due respect, Mr. Pundit, whenever you start writing about organics, I feel a slight bit of spin going on. And a bit patronized. “Poor bobble-headed consumers … […]
Willard Bishop Consulting Issues Annual Future Of Food Retailing Report
In addition to the interview with Bruce Axtman from the Perishables Group, which we feature here, we have run several pieces on category management, including an interview with Willard Bishop Consulting’s Bill Bishop, Information Resources’ Thom Blischok and a joint interview with FreshLook’s Mark Degner and IRI’s June Fenzel. Now Willard Bishop has made available […]
Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry:
The Perishables Group’s Bruce Axtman
At the United Fresh show in Chicago, we were intrigued by a panel moderated by Steve Lutz of the Perishables Group that was focused on how consumers perceive organics sold in conventional grocery stores. You can read the piece we wrote about the workshop here. We thought it would be worthwhile to learn more about […]
Loblaw’s Holds Off Wal-Mart
With A Fresh Foods Strategy
The 2006 annual report for Loblaw points out several facts relevant to the fresh foods industry: 27 Million Kilograms of fresh produce delivered every week Four distinct formats: Superstore, Great Food, Hard Discount and Wholesale President’s Choice Blue Menu for consumer-friendly healthy foods Strategic imperative: Fresh First — best fresh food offering Adopted “Fresh walk” […]
Yes, Disney Garden’s Apple Slices
Were At Disney!
One thing we can report is that the Disney Garden brand apple slices were for sale at the Farmer’s Market in Toontown. This contrasted our reports here and here in which, on a previous visit, we caught Disney filling some shorts with local supplies. The Pundit family would like to thank the folks at Crunch-Pak […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Tesco’s Behavior
In response to our overall coverage of Tescos’ Voyage to America and, specifically, to our piece, Working With Wal-Mart May Not Be As Bad As You Think — Tesco Could Be Tougher, we received this thoughtful letter: I think people are going to find that the grass is not greener on the other side. I […]
How Wal-Mart Lost A Customer
One more little report from Walt Disney World about how easy it is to lose a customer and how the bigger a store is the more things can impact the decision. A talkative waiter, noting the Pundit children’s high fruit consumption, started talking about how much fruit his children ate. Which segued into where he […]
Disney Misses An Opportunity
To Boost Healthy Eating
The Pundit spent Father’s Day weekend at Walt Disney World (the Jr. Pundits shrewdly determined that Dad would love the chance to pick any ride he wanted to go on for Father’s Day), which gave us a chance to evaluate its efforts to serve healthier food at its theme parks. There is no question that […]
Wal-Mart In India
Faces Tremendous Obstacles
We have mentioned that Wal-Mart has cut a deal with Bharti to expand into India. India has laws that preclude foreign companies from actually operating retail stores, so the idea is that Wal-Mart would function as a wholesaler while Bharti actually operates the stores. The final paperwork remains to be signed, but Bharti claims it […]
Is Organic Produce Healthier?
Earlier this year we ran a piece, Blunt Talk On Organics In The UK,which told the story of what happened when David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, gave an interview: David Miliband, the environment secretary, says organic produce, which is usually more expensive, is a “lifestyle choice” with no hard evidence that it is healthier. The […]
