The Biggest Beneficiary Of A Possible Strike At Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons Might Just Be The Fresh & Easy Chain: With Record Losses And New Management In The UK, This May Be The Last Hope For Tesco In America
Southern California supermarket employees have voted to authorize their union leaders to call a strike against Supervalu’s local Albertsons stores, Kroger’s Ralphs banner and Safeway’s Vons stores. A mediator has been called in. The last such strike, back in October of 2003, lasted for more than four months. The key beneficiaries of such a strike would […]
Amidst Procurement Angst From
Wal-Mart And Delhaize, Kroger Makes Changes More Transparent To Vendors
We’ve written much about Wal-Mart’s procurement gyrations and recently wrote both here and here about the efforts of Delhaize to centralize procurement. Both were problematic for different reasons. Wal-Mart’s procurement changes have been a source of more angst for the supplier base than was necessary in large part because the company has been at war […]
Michael T. Osterhom Speaks Out On a Matter of Public Health Concern: Peeps!
Dr. Michael T. Osterholm is no stranger to Pundit readers. He is one of the rare experts in public health who was willing to break ranks and publicly critique the FDA when it was running an incompetent investigation into the salmonella Saintpaul outbreak of June 2008. He made this courageous statement here in the Pundit. […]
Pundit's Mailbag — Buying Locally Grown And The Freedom To Choose Otherwise
We have had many discussions in the context of our writing about the local phenomenon, and our piece, Reality Check For Locally Grown Advocates: Economics Don’t Measure Up, brought many thoughtful letters some of which we featured in our piece titled Is Locally Grown Produce “Worth It”. Now we thought we would focus on a […]
What LeBron James And A-Rod Teach Us About Public Policy
Here at the Pundit, we don’t have too many occasions to write about sports. In some of the work we do for The Weekly Standard, however, we have found a few such opportunities. Last year, for example, we wrote, LeBron James Brings the High Cost of Bad Policy to the Fore, which was a piece […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Publix Greenwise ‘Crowds Out’ Specialty Food Opportunities
Our piece, A Walk Through Publix Greenwise Market: Is What Is Sold What Has Been Promised? Lessons For Retailers Thinking Of Launching Specialized Concepts, brought a diversity of responses, some, such as this one, came from specialty food folks who have dealt first-hand with retailers developing specialized concepts: Just read your piece “A Walk Through […]
Pundit’s Mailbag – On Supervalu Bags, Wegmans And American Airlines
Our recent piece on Supervalu brought a response that claimed we didn’t make our case: A couple of thoughts on your article, Supervalu May Learn That Cutting Costs Without Customer Concern Will Ultimately Affect The Sales Side Of The Equation, particularly this sentence: “What is missing from this story, however, is any indication that Supervalu […]
Pundit’s Mailbag – Chandler Copps Helped Wholesalers Too
Our piece, Remembering Chandler Copps – A Mentor, A Leader, A Great Example, focused on Chandler Copps’ great contributions to the retail industry, but this letter reminded us that he was an important player in helping terminal market wholesalers to better themselves as well: As a founding member of his terminal market group, along with […]
Salinas Flooding Brings Out The Consequences Of The
California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement
John Baillie has often shared with the industry insightful comments regarding how abstract proposals impact real life farmers. We’ve included his comments in pieces such as these: In Defense Of Salinas Pundit’s Mailbag — One-Voice Plea On PMA/United Merger Issue Pundit’s Mailbag — Profitable Participation Pundit’s Pulse Of The Industry: John Baillie Talks About GAPs […]
Americans Providing Assistance In Japan
Here at the Pundit, we’ve been fortunate to have the contributions of Jack Bayles, owner of the Alishan Organic Center in Japan. He has contributed to many articles including these: Too Many Concerns Still Exist Over Organic Certification In China China Scare ‘Off The Charts’ In Japan Jack has been integral in the efforts to […]
