A tractor trailer carrying bulk containers of Mayo, Salad Dressings and other Condiments crashed yesterday at the busy interchange of the Don Valley Parkway and Highway 401. The scene looked like an out-take from the new Ghostbusters movie, with Green (Goddess) ‘slime’ everywhere…Read More →
Now and then, you hear about hijackings – the theft of whole truckloads of goods which end up on the Black Market. And who hasn’t heard about someone who got a great deal on something that ‘fell off the back of a truck’? But do you have any idea how much that costs the economy?Read More →
They’re billing it as the world’s healthiest meal. I don’t know. I’m billing it as the world’s craziest meal. Definitely the craziest to be concocted in the name of Healthy Eating. It’s clearly a marketing/promotion stunt. The question is, would anybody ever really order one?Read More →
Believe it or not, an Indian State (like a U.S. State or Canadian Province) is imposing a Fat Tax on retail foods and restaurants. It’s a response to the global obesity epidemic to which, evidently, India is not immune. Predictably, the hardest-hit edibles are Pizza, Burgers and Junk Food in general…Read More →
It had to happen, in the face of rising prices for conventional foods and the resultant need for the average consumer to source alternative food sources. But I still can’t get my head around eating insects. i know. they’re just tiny little animals, not unlike cows and pigs and sheep,Read More →
We wish. And, now, an overview of current conditions in the Food market (pun intended) seem to indicate that they will. Soon. However… I see things differently. I think, based on my own experience with life, that prices may just stay high but stabilize. And that will be bad in the long run…Read More →
Consumers have been changing their food shopping habits over the past year or so, since Meat and Produce prices went sky high. That’s been hard on supermarket proprietors who’ve seen profits decline as folks buy less Meat and cheaper brands of everything else. What to do?Read More →
There’s a new consumer demographic in play these days. It goes by yet another catchy moniker. You’ve heard of the Boomers, the Gen-Xers, the Gen-Yers and the Millenniels. They all have their own peculiar likes and dislikes. But now there’s a new challenge for marketers: the YEMMies…Read More →