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Local Foods – From Niche to Mainstream in 5 Years

In early 2005, the local food movement was mostly confined to farmers markets, a few intrepid souls selling by mail order or over the internet, one or two up market shops sufficiently different to flourish despite the supermarkets, and funnily enough, ASDA who had just begun to experiment with local...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Sun, Apr 4 2010
What Tesco Think About Local Foods

Boy, do Tesco tell it like it is. Alistair Robinson,Senior Buying Manager buyer for the North of England, addressed the Institute of Agricultural Managers conference last week. His topic was "Local Foods Opportunities with Supermarkets". Here's what Alistair said. First up, consumers are...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Tue, Nov 25 2008
Unthinking Consumerism - R.I.P

It looks as if the days of "I want what I want when I want it" are over, even for the relatively affluent, and even when it comes to food which still only accounts for about 10% of UK consumer expenditure. Shoppers are planning more carefully, shopping more wisely, and weighing up the quality...

Posted to Land Strategies Blog (Weblog) by anonymous on Mon, Oct 20 2008

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