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The trade association representing Canada’s biggest supermarket chains is joining calls to establish a formal set of rules for grocers and their suppliers, a significant about-face that could accelerate the campaign to check the power of the most dominant players in the Canadian grocery business.
Food producers have for months been pushing the government to legislate a code of conduct that would stop bully tactics in the grocery industry after some large grocers implemented new fees and heavy fines on suppliers during the pandemic.
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Former Facebook exec Nikila Srinivasan to lead international strategy
Instacart tipped plans for international expansion in announcing the addition of four new vice presidents, including executives from Facebook and Uber Eats.
San Francisco-based Instacart said Wednesday that it has hired two new product leaders, Nikila Srinivasan as VP of product for international and David McIntosh as VP of product for retailers. They join two other recently appointed product leaders at the online delivery giant: Max Eulenstein, VP of product for Instacart App, and Daniel Danker, VP of product for shoppers and fulfillment.
Plans call for Srinivasan (left) to lead the development of Instacart’s long-term international strategy, the company said, noting that it’s exploring potential future markets. She comes to Instacart from Facebook, where she most recently served as senior director and head of consumer product for communities. In that role, Srinivasan led key product lines such as F
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Despite receiving much adoration during the pandemic, grocery clerks and cashiers are working in overwhelmingly low-paid and part-time positions, according to a new report that looks at the state of Ontario’s supermarket industry.
Researchers at Ryerson’s University’s Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship found the grocery industry is providing fewer stable, full-time positions, partly due to a shift in consumer shopping habits toward evenings and weekends.
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An industrial complex sprawling across a 67-acre lot in rural Manitoba has more than 60 kilometres of pipe connecting silos, grinders and spray dryers, all devoted entirely to the pea. The plant in Portage la Prairie, Man. an hour or so west of Winnipeg is so singularly focused on this one crop that its optical sorting system can spot a soybean in a sea of peas and get rid of it.
“We absolutely have a very strict specification about having no soy beans in our peas,” said Dominique Baumann, the chief executive who runs the Canadian operations of France-based food processing giant Roquette Frères SA.
Retail sales grow less than 1% but uphold pandemic-driven gains, executives say
Loblaw Cos. recorded virtually flat food retail sales in its fiscal 2021 first quarter, which cycled last year’s sales surge from the COVID-19 pandemic, while earnings topped analysts’ high-end estimate.
Total retail sales in the 12-week quarter ended March 27 edged up 0.7% to $11.67 billion (Canadian) from $11.58 billion a year earlier, Loblaw said yesterday. The Brampton, Ontario-based retailer had posted a 10.8% retail sales gain in the 2020 first quarter.
First-quarter food retail sales for 2021 came in at $8.48 billion, up 1.8% from $8.33 billion in the 2020 quarter, which saw a 10.9% gain. Same-store sales for food inched up 0.1% year over year.