As food and gasoline prices climb steadily higher, regional grocers are finding it trickier to balance low prices for shoppers with the store’s own high costs.
From shifting inventory and focusing on private-label products to targeting cost-conscious shoppers who are eating out less often, supermarket chains are exploring every option to retain their customer base and [...]
“We are pleased with the execution of our strategy to focus on growing our franchise activities and adding other fast food restaurant brands to diversify our business and increase our operating leverage,†said Mr. Ricardo Bomeny, Chairman and CEO of Brazil Fast Food. “In the first quarter we added 14 new points of sale under [...]
A big farm lobby claims farmers are not the main beneficiaries of soaring prices for basic foods in New Zealand.
“Food producers are certainly not `creaming it’,” said Federated Farmers president Charlie Pedersen.
His lobby today released an economist’s report it said showed farmers were receiving only a quarter – on average – of the retail prices [...]
Consumer prices rose only 0.2 percent in April, but food prices rose almost 1 percent for the month, the highest monthly jump since 1990, and 5 percent above the previous year.
The real eye-popper, though, was this statistic: The price of gasoline declined 2 percent.
Say what? Millions of U.S. drivers beg to differ.
Here’s the reason for [...]
Ridge savaged 35-year-old Wiki in his Sunday newspaper column last week and if hed chosen yesterdays open session to front up he might have put his health at risk.
Warriors captain Wiki, all rock-hard muscle and scars, doesnt do angry off the field, but is hurt by Ridge questioning his ability to match it with the [...]
Bad news for the Highway Code. Another loony cyclist has taken to the road.
Namely, me. Yes, I’m back on my bike. For six weeks my mudsplattered mean
machine has lain dormant in the garden shed, doubtless feeling damp and
unloved. Not, I must add, because I’m any less keen to put my creaky old
body through its daily [...]
“We do more selecting, looking around, seeing which prices are cheaper,” David said. “We are being more selective. We have got to find the cheapest price.”
Record-high energy, corn and wheat prices in the past year have led to sticker shock in the grocery aisles. At $1.32, the average price of a loaf of [...]
When Harold Macmillan told the British people that they had never had it so
good, he knew what he was talking about. With rationing only recently ended
families might not have had that much in 1957, but they certainly knew how
to enjoy what they had.
A comparative study of spending habits then and now shows that although, 50
years [...]
Nearly one in four children aged four to five and almost a third of 10 to
11-year-olds in England are overweight or obese, the Government said
yesterday.
The figures came from the National Child Measurement Programme, which weighed
and measured about 80 per cent of children in their first and last years of
primary school as part of a scheme [...]
“We do more selecting, looking around, seeing which prices are cheaper,” said David Valdez. “We are being more selective. We have got to find the cheapest price.”
Record-high energy, corn and wheat prices in the past year have led to sticker shock in the grocery aisles. At $1.32, the average price of a loaf [...]
