Bulletin: PepsiCo To Cut Snack Prices 15 Percent In US!
Who says the Sweet and Salty Snack mega-powers can’t afford to cut their prices? Facing a serious sales slump, conglomerates such as PepsiCo are moving toward healthier options. And now, they’re listening to consumers who want price cuts…Read More →
Taking A Flyer: Walmart Expanding Drone Delivery
Walmart has been tinkering with Drone Delivery for a while, now. But it seems its process has been perfected. The retailer is expanding its drone program to Los Angeles, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Miami, with other major markets to follow…Read More →
Junk Food Marketing Part VIII: What Are Kids Being Fed?
Intense marketing by the junk food industry must shoulder a majority of the blame for the sorry state of our children’s health. Govern-ments are clearly not doing enough to protect their interests. But parents, too, have a duty to perform…Read More →
MY Very, Very, VERY Favourite Chocolate Bars – Not Ranked…
I came across a post a few days back titles, I thought rather pompously, ‘The World’s Very Best Chocolate Bars, Ranked’. I jumped right into the mega-post to see where my personal all-time faves landed. And was disappointed to see some of them were not there at all…Read More →
Amazon Closing ‘Fresh’, ‘GO’ Stores: Focus On Whole Foods
Remember the big media fuss Amazon made over the launch of its automated, checkout-free grocery stores? We also noted, later, that the concept had some troubling issues… Now, Amazon is closing its ‘GO’ and ‘Fresh’ conven-ience stores…Read More →
Meat Substitute Companies ‘Pivoting’ To Other Products
After several years of ‘almost success’, the sector pioneer of plant-based meat subs-titutes has taken an abrupt turn to the left. Beyond Foods has ‘pivoted’ from its core business to seek a share of the straight-up plant-based protein market…Read More →
Junk Food Marketing Part VII: What Are Kids Being Fed?
It’s easy to blame junk food marketing for making children overweight. After all, the statistics are there, showing just how influ-ential these ads can be for young minds. However, it’s not just the marketing that’s at fault here…Read More →
Our Most Famous Sandwiches – For Better Or Worse
Some of the most-beloved, legendary sand-wiches in the Western World are not the best for our health – by today’s standards. But they remain all-time faves of a vast majority of diners. Today, I’ve cherry-picked some old and some new sammy classics…Read More →