Tim York Takes Leadership Role
In Food Safety Crisis
We’ve been dealing extensively with the Buyer-led Food Safety Initiative. Growing out of initial conversations between Dave Corsi of Wegmans and Tim York of the Markon Cooperative, the Buyer-Led Food Safety Initiative was quickly endorsed by nine important buying organizations: Ron Anderson, Safeway, Inc. David Corsi, Wegman’s Food Markets Gary Gionnette, Supervalu Inc. Reggie Griffin, […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary XXII
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 IV
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 has a conference planned. 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 […]
GAPs/GMPs And HACCP Plans
At the end of October, United Fresh Produce Association distributed to its members a take on the spinach crisis by United’s President/CEO Tom Stenzel. You can read it here. It was an excellent summary of the crisis by someone in the thick of it. Tom had used portions of the paper at numerous presentations, including […]
Supervalu Emphasizes Fresh & Healthy
Supervalu announced a new “Premium Fresh & Healthy” store design program. As Supervalu explained in its release: Premium Fresh & Healthy highlights the best of the combined efforts of SUPERVALU’s Merchandising, Marketing and Store Development teams and applies it to SUPERVALU’s $1 billion remodeling and new store campaign. Unlike a traditional announcement of a “new […]
Spinach Crisis Summary Rewind XXXII
With so much having been written in so short a time, thought it would be helpful to publish a sort of round-up of available material to help people understand the whole situation regarding spinach and this E. coli breakout: The Perishable Pundit itself has dealt extensively with the subject in several major pieces. On September […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
Wild Oats’ Harris Talks About Mentorship
One of the consistent themes we have dealt with here at the Pundit, almost from our inception, is leadership. It is the one constant that applies across all the issues that confront the industry. We’ve dealt with issues of industry leadership here, here and here, and today we have another letter on the subject: Mr. […]
Tale Of Two Buyers
One of the most difficult things to do is to align corporate culture and compensation programs with the goals of management. When we speak to VPs of Perishables or VPs of Produce at major retailers, all are very focused right now on food safety. But we are also hearing from shippers about a “disconnect” between […]
Botulism And Carrot Juice Summary XXI
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 III
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 has a conference planned. 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 […]
