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• Canny Consumers - Cutting Food Costs Without Cutting Quality or Amount Consumed

  Peter Marks of the Coop, trying to explain a 4.6% reduction his first half year food sales, said that “People are spending less on food – that’s a first.” Kantar Worldpanel confirms the cutback, explaining that in the last three months grocery sales were... Posted Aug 31 2011, 09:47 AM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: food inflation, changing consumer behaviour, food buying trends, WRAP [Edit Tags]

• More on Consumers Reaction to Rising Food Prices

  It looks as if the return of food inflation is leading consumers to rethink once again about the way they shop. In my previous blog we saw that during the 2008 bout of inflation consumers responded by buying less food. They stuck to a budget. They tried... Posted Mar 07 2011, 04:23 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: food inflation, changing consumer behaviour [Edit Tags]

• Food Inflation + Recession Worries = Less Food Bought

  DEFRA’s recently published Family Food Survey compares 2009 with 2006 and shows that people coped with rising prices and recession pessimism by buying less food. They did not, as might have been thought, buy the same quantities as before but pay less... Posted Feb 24 2011, 10:34 AM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: food inflation, consumer confidence, changing consumer behaviour [Edit Tags]

• The Changing Shape of Meat Eating

  The British Pig Executive (BPEX) has published data about meat consumption comparing the year ending 25th January 2009 with the previous 12 months, and the figures give an interesting insight into how consumers are coping with the twin challenges of rising... Posted Mar 25 2009, 12:24 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: food inflation, red meat market, chicken consumption, meat consumption [Edit Tags]

• Pricing Power - A Tale of Two Companies With Lessons for UK Milk Coops.

  Two dairy companies reported profit results in the last few days and the difference between the two is stark. Robert Wiseman gave a profits warning for 2008. Dairy Crest oozed confidence and said it will have another good year. The make or break factor... Posted May 21 2008, 02:52 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: Wiseman, Dairy Crest, Friesland Campino, food inflation [Edit Tags]

• Food Inflation - Consumer Behaviour, Supermarket Reaction, Farm Gate Price Fights Ahead

  There's been a raft of data published in the last few days covering April's inflation numbers, consumer research from the levy boards, and supermarket performance in the first quarter of the year. Four messages come singing out and these are:... Posted May 14 2008, 07:59 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: Sainsbury, Tesco, Asda, food inflation, farmgate pricing [Edit Tags]

• Food Inflation - Little Link Between Retail Prices and Input Costs, Livestock Farmers Disadvantaged

  The hoo-ha about food price inflation which swept the media last week prompted an attempt to disentangle sensationalist headlines from fact. I turned to the independent and usually reliable Office of National Statistics to check their Retail Price Index... Posted Apr 28 2008, 10:00 AM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: food inflation, agricultural input costs [Edit Tags]