Only Way To Make A Bellini:
Start With White Flesh Peach
White peach sales are destined to boom now that Harry Cipriani has reopened in Manhattan’s well-known Sherry-Netherland Hotel after a two-year hiatus. The original Cipriani, Harry’s Bar in Venice, Italy, was famed as the haunt of Ernest Hemingway, Peggy Guggenheim, the Aga Khan and other notables. It was also the birthplace, in 1949 of the […]
Prepare For Perclorate Problems
There are always issues bubbling just below the surface, not really causing a problem, but capable of doing so at any time. Our piece perchlorate Issue Is Percolating dealt with the risks for the industry related to perchlorate. Now the FDA has issued preliminary estimates of perchlorate dietary exposure and updated its backgrounder on perchlorate. […]
Pesticides Keep Pestering Us
Just when we thought that everybody was focused on pathogens on produce, it turns out that pesticides are creeping back into the public eye. We ran a piece entitled pesticide Spraying Gets More Attention that was quickly followed by Pundit’s Mailbag — Green Acres Is The Place To Be?!? — both focused around the intersection […]
Caplan Scholarship Program Helps
Family Businesses Learn Public Policy
There are so many opportunities available for young people to rise in today’s produce industry if you know where to look. Jay and Ruthie Pack have generously supported the Pack Family/PMA Career Pathways Fund to bring a select group of college students and faculty advisors to PMA’s annual convention and exhibition. The Nucci Scholarship for […]
Ocean Spray Case Delves Into
Robinson-Patman And PACA Violations
Our coverage of the dispute between Jim & Theresa Nolan and The Nolan Network with Ocean Spray began with an article in Pundit sister publication, PRODUCE BUSINESS, entitled Special Report: Ocean Spray Sued By Longtime Associates. We followed that up with our first piece in the Pundit, which we called Ocean Spray Trial Will Shed […]
Has Wal-Mart’s Desire To Buy
Cheaper Changed Its Values?
We’ve been running a stream of pieces wrestling with the procurement transformation going on at Wal-Mart. We started out addressing the change from DC assignments to dollar-value assignments, along with the growth of “opportunity buys” in our piece Wal-Mart Continues To Change Its Buying Practices. We then had a lengthy discussion with Ron McCormick, Vice […]
Allan Corrin Known For His Creativity
Allan Corrin passed away earlier this month at the age of 80. Where so many others looked and saw commodities, he saw ways to differentiate and then use that differentiation to build demand. We asked Steven Kenfield, President of Nogales, Arizona-based SunFed, who worked with Allan for many years, to share a few words with […]
‘Anyone But Wal-Mart’
We recently focused attention on the evolving nature of Wal-Mart’s Changing Treatment of Suppliers and followed up by pointing out that Calls On Wal-Mart Point To More Vendor Negativity. Many have focused on the narrow question of whether Wal-Mart is breaking contracts. As we said in the first piece: It should be noted that Wal-Mart […]
Snapshots Of Tesco’s Vegas And California Stores
As part of our coverage of Tesco’s arrival in America, we ran some nice elevations of Tesco’s new concept as well as maps and addresses of all their first 20 stores that will open in the Phoenix area. You can see all three right here. Here is a map of the initial 15 Fresh & […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Beware The Bureaucrats
I am always challenged by the Pundit, and thankful the Lord has given us people with minds as yours presenting rational arguments in an open forum challenging and willing to be challenged. I find the USDA position on beef testing for Mad Cow interesting. “Do not test due to potential of false positives” is an […]
