The Real Future Of The Supermarket?
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about The Store Of The Future – whether it be Amazon’s GO concept or the online/delivery model. But a third option has emerged which just might ‘outrun’ both of those concepts. And it leverages one of the other big tech developments of the current century…Read More →
Fast Food Food Week!
The Fast Food sector weighed in with a vengeance re.- Valentine’s Day, with just about everybody offering specials and novelty gifts. But, in the interest of variety, we thought we’d cherry-pick the best of them. And a chemical found in McDonald’s Fries may be the key to curing baldness…Read More →
New York State To Regulate Tide Pods?
No. Really. And, for those of you who don’t know, ‘Tide Pods’ are little plastic pouches of Laundry detergent you just throw into the machine and forget. It’s convenience to the max. No measuring, no mess. But it seems that idiots who don’t know any better have taken to eating them…Read More →
Is Pepsico Planning To ‘Cancel’ Feminism?
Not really. But it looked, for a moment, in a recent interview with the online magazine Freakonomics, that the soft drink giant was preparing to turn back the clock fifty years or so and start marketing products specifically designed for women – ‘women’ with a big, pink capital ‘W’…Read More →
Girl Scout Sells Cookies to Pot Poppers
The reaction has been swift and voluminous, and covers the whole spectrum from kudos to no-nos, after a San Diego, CA, Girl Scout sold 312 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies outside a local Marijuana Dispensary over Super Bowl Weekend. You gotta give the kid credit for her marketing smarts!Read More →
Super Bowl Food Prices Just Plain Greedy
Following the well-established rule that people will pay ANYTHING for Food if they’re trapped in a stadium or arena with no option but to buy what’s there, Super Bowl vendors went absolutely nuts with their prices this past Sunday. It’s just naked, hand-wringing greed at it’s shameless worst…Read More →
Breakfast May Be The Slimmingest Meal…
You’ve no doubt heard the maxim, that ‘Breakfast is the most important meal of the day’. After taking a 14-day test which I created, I have to agree… But my reasoning and methodology are probably not what the dieticians and doctors and nutritionists had in mind when they coined the maxim…Read More →
Give Your Mind A Wine Cleansing?
Sounds, oddly, like fun time and a purge at he same time. The best of both worlds? Maybe… Just don’t go on a bender and expect to come out the other end thinking like Einstein, say researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center. The old maxim about moderation applies…Read More →