The pandemic home-delivery boom is driving a push to automation and precarious work by Australian supermarkets.
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Reassurances around the takeover of UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain come with a strong sense of deja vu.
Converting food waste to animal feed – or reducing it altogether by supermarkets working with farmers – could save millions of tonnes of food from being discarded. It could also help raise animal welfare standards.
Thanks to a bid from a private equity firm backed by former Tesco boss Terry Leahy, the UK’s fourth largest supermarket chain is in play.
We still don’t know whether ecolabels are significantly better for the environment than alternatives.
Discriminatory zoning and housing policies have concentrated poverty in America along racial lines. As a result, healthy food options are limited in many low-income and Black neighborhoods.
Another local lockdown, another outbreak of shoppers stockpiling. Fortunately supply chains are now prepared.
Since opening its first Australian stores on January 25 2001, Aldi has profoundly influenced the supermarket landscape.
Queues at borders, suspended deliveries, empty shelves: the EU-UK Trade Cooperatiion Agreement is not quite what it seemed in the brochure.
Yes, there will be temporary meat shortages in Victoria, but not for long.
Hip food offerings can signal that a neighborhood is gentrifying – especially when they repackage traditional foods for wealthy white eaters.
Melbourne’s return to stage 3 restrictions has precipitated another round of grocery stockpiling. But supermarket shelves won’t be empty as long as last time.
What motivates people to panic buy and stockpile goods like toilet paper? The COVID-19 pandemic has given us the chance to find out.
We are too reliant on supermarkets and industrial agriculture.
Pickers, purifyers and producers are all working flat out.
Continuing flour shortages in supermarkets highlight a fundamental food security problem in distribution systems.
We surveyed over 100 Coles, Woolworths, Aldi and independent stores around Australia and found supermarkets are promoting unhealthy food much more often, and more prominently, than healthier products.
After the brief shock of food insecurity in the form of empty supermarket shelves, we might start thinking about having a Plan B and C based on local food sources and shorter supply chains.
Product tampering is not just committed by teenagers, nor has it just come about during this pandemic.
The government is focusing on the market to feed the UK but to avoid long-term risks and short-term emergencies a UK food plan is needed now
Principales colaboradores
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Louise Grimmer es Amigo de The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Associate Dean - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Professor, Monash University
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
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Professor in Sustainable Production and Consumption, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
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Associate professor, and Associate Director of the Global Obesity Centre, Deakin University
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PhD, Political Economy, Macquarie University
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PhD Candidate, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Competition Lawyer; Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne
