Tesco vs. Costco
We’ve run several pieces regarding Tesco’s move into the American market. In the last few days we’ve been studying a research report on Tesco done by Credit Suisse, first with a piece entitled, Tesco’s Success Course Far From Easy, and then with a piece entitled, Tesco In America: Foodservice vs. Prepared Foods. This report also […]
Pundit Rewind LXVXVIII
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, […]
Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative
Recap XLVX
There is an ad hoc group that started it all. The National Restaurant Association has its group working on a program and the Food Marketing Institute held a conference. All these buyer-led initiatives can get confusing, so to assist the trade in keeping track of them all, we are publishing this recap of coverage all […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Marketing Agreement Board
And The Future Marketing Order Board
We’ve run several pieces on the new California Marketing Agreement Board including California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement Board, Marketing Make-up Causes Concern, Pundit’s Mailbag — More Questions About Leafy Greens Board and, most recently, Leafy Greens’ Board Should Disavow Marketing Effort. Now Bob Martin points out why the board seemed light on pure growers: Growers […]
Wheel Of Lunch
This one will probably work only in the United States, so apologies to our many international readers. It is called “The Wheel of Lunch.” You enter your zip code and then answer a query such as “lunch” if you want lunch or “Chinese” if you want Chinese and it spins a wheel to answer your […]
Tesco In America:
Foodservice vs. Prepared Foods
In our piece, Tesco’s Success Course Far From Easy, we referenced a research report from Credit Suisse entitled, It May Be Fresh, But It Won’t Be Easy. One of the more intriguing comments in the report deals with Tesco’s supposed plans to sell a lot of prepared foods: “… grocers’ fresh food offers have not […]
The Rats Of New York Teach The Produce Industry Some Lessons On Food Safety
A lot of people were watching rats scurry around a KFC/Taco Bell co-located unit this past weekend. If you didn’t see it, just click here or on the screen shot. Pretty revolting to most people, especially if you had happened to have lunch there the day before you saw the video. Yet there are several […]
Rats In Los Angeles:
The Produce Industry’s Shame
Caption: During happier days, Richard Meruelo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MerueloMaddux Properties, rings the NASDAQ Stock Market open bell to celebrate the company’s initial public offering on NASDAQ. If you need evidence that mandatory regulation is no panacea — and of the importance of the media in focusing attention on public health and […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice
Summary LVXVIII
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 […]
Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative
Recap XLVIII
There is an ad hoc group that started it all. The National Restaurant Association has its group working on a program and the Food Marketing Institute held a conference. All these buyer-led initiatives can get confusing, so to assist the trade in keeping track of them all, we are publishing this recap of coverage all […]
