Tesco In America: Real Estate
It May be Fresh, But it Won’t be Easy is the name of a new Credit Suisse report on Tesco’s American venture that we’ve been studying lately. We started out with Tesco’s Success Course Far From Easy, and then ran a piece entitled, Tesco In America: . We looked at Tesco vs. Costco, and then […]
Yum Brands Makes A Video:
Too Little, Too Late
In dealing with the PR fallout of the video of rats running around its New York City restaurant, which we dealt with in The Rats Of New York Teach The Produce Industry Some Lessons On Food Safety, Yum Brands seems unaware of the need to show concordance between what a company says and how it […]
Pundit Rewind LXVXVXI
The Pundit originally ran the Pundit Rewind on September 21, 2006. We continuously update it in order to keep everyone organized with respect to reference material on this subject; we have updated it with new items and run it again today. Spinach Crisis Summary With so much having been written in so short a time, […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice
Summary LVXVXI
We’ve been asked to make available in one place our coverage of the recall by Wm. Bolthouse Farms of certain 100% carrot juice products and the broader implications of this issue for food safety. This piece is updated regularly and will be re-run to include new coverage of this outbreak and issue. We initiated our […]
Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry —
Fresh Produce Association
Of The Americas’ Lee Frankel
The Fresh Produce Association of the Americas is pretty riled up over the attitude of the California Department of Food and Agriculture toward many Mexican produce items: California Ag Agency Causing Trade Disruptions NOGALES, Ariz., February 23, 2007 — Members of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas (FPAA) say the California Department of Food […]
Ron McCormick Of Wal-Mart Elaborates
On Its Procurement Reorganization
As the last farewell party for Bruce Peterson, — who has left Wal-Mart after being the visionary who built its produce operation — wound to its close, we published Wal-Mart Continues To Change Its Buying Practices. Today we had a nice conversation with Ron McCormick, vice president of produce. Ron came to Wal-Mart from Food […]
Tesco vs. Target
We’ve been running a series analyzing a Credit Suisse report on Tesco’s new American venture. We started out with Tesco’s Success Course Far From Easy, and then ran a piece entitled, Tesco In America: Foodservice vs. Prepared Foods. Yesterday we looked at Tesco vs. Costco, and today we look at what the report had to […]
National Restaurant Association Soon
To Unveil Its Own Food Safety Plan
It was inevitable that the National Restaurant Association would want a place at the table for its views on food safety to be expressed. Way back in November, we reported in NRA Forms Produce Safety Working Group that NRA had convened a secret committee to develop new food safety standards for the produce industry. Now, […]
Pundit Rewind LXVXVX
The Pundit originally ran the Pundit Rewind on September 21, 2006. We continuously update it in order to keep everyone organized with respect to reference material on this subject; we have updated it with new items and run it again today. Spinach Crisis Summary With so much having been written in so short a time, […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice
Summary LVXVX
We’ve been asked to make available in one place our coverage of the recall by Wm. Bolthouse Farms of certain 100% carrot juice products and the broader implications of this issue for food safety. This piece is updated regularly and will be re-run to include new coverage of this outbreak and issue. We initiated our […]
