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Dark Stores on The Rise as Part of The Campaign to Deliver Groceries

on December 20th, 2021 by The Afro News

SkipTheDishes just announced it’s building 38 dark stores across the country to support its online food delivery strategy We recently learned that SkipTheDishes is building 38 dark stores across the country to support its e-commerce renewal. Its strategy includes selling food online like any grocery store. Company CEO Kevin Edwards claims the online food market

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Food, Point of View, Technology Tagged as: Canadian workforce, shopping online, The labour market

How Gene Editing Helps Farmers and Consumers

on December 15th, 2021 by The Afro News

With gene editing on the verge of being accepted in Canada, the way we communicate risks through food labelling needs to change Health Canada is reportedly likely to treat gene-edited crops differently than genetically-modified crops, or GMOs. That would be the right move.  That means the oversight provided by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency would

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Food, Point of View, The Bridge, Travel Tagged as: Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Helps Farmers and Consumers

Food Supply Chain Resilience Put to The Test By B.C. Floods

on December 1st, 2021 by The Afro News

Supply chains in Western Canada have always been vulnerable and that’s not going to change anytime soon thanks to the recent floods Images from British Columbia over the past week have been heartbreaking: human casualties, dairy cows barely breathing above water before being pulled to safety, the loss of livestock across the Fraser Valley. Just

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Food, Point of View, The Bridge, Travel Tagged as: B.C. floods., Europe-centric global economy, supply chains in Western Canada have always been vulnerable

Food Theft Is On The Rise As Prices Climb

on November 22nd, 2021 by The Afro News

With food inflation on the rise, that was to be expected. And the worst is yet to come Shoplifting has been on the rise in Canadian supermarkets in recent months. And that ultimately costs us all. Concrete data on theft in grocery stores is difficult to get since incidents are typically underreported. Managers tend to

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Familly Matters, Finance, Food, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Canadians now buy more than $5 billion in food a year online., e-commerce for food has exploded, food inflation on the rise

Can Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Solve Global Food Security Issues?

on November 16th, 2021 by The Afro News

Involving more billionaires in the food aid business may lead to a paradigm shift in helping the less fortunate of the world A recent Twitter conversation between United Nations World Food Program (WFP) executive director David Beasley and one of the world’s richest people, Elon Musk, turned a lot of heads. Beasley invited Musk to

Filed under: Business, Familly Matters, Food, Health & Home, Point of View, Technology, The Bridge Tagged as: Hunger and famine will never really disappear

The Rise of The Once-silent, Once-hidden Food Worker

on November 2nd, 2021 by The Afro News

Given our heightened collective consciousness about food systems, workers have more political capital than they’ve ever had and they know it Workers across the food supply chain are expressing concerns about their livelihood. Last weekend, workers at the online grocery retailer Instacart went on strike for better conditions and higher wages. Instacart is a symbol of the

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Food, The Bridge Tagged as: low-margin environment., The agri-food sector is a high-volume, traditional food economy

More Canadians Than Ever Are Suffering From Food Insecurity

on November 1st, 2021 by The Afro News

According to the Hunger Count, the number of food bank visits has gone up by more than 20 per cent in the last two years Hunger is cruelly invisible in our society. Even though it may surround us, we hardly see it. But it’s always there. With the latest Hunger Count published by Food Banks Canada, we

Filed under: Canadian News, Food, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Hunger is cruelly invisible in our society, the number of food bank visits has gone up

How Many Restaurants do we Really Need in Canada?

on October 5th, 2021 by The Afro News

Did we have too many restaurants before the COVID-19 pandemic? This may be a golden opportunity for the industry to reflect on its future Did we have too many restaurants before the COVID-19 pandemic? Did the pandemic only wipe out ‘extra’ restaurants in Canada? With the labour shortage, the cost of food ingredients exploding, and

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Food, Opinion/Comment, Point of View Tagged as: Managing a restaurant after the pandemic, restaurants in Canada, The labour shortage

How Serious is Food Inflation in Canada?

on September 27th, 2021 by The Afro News

Statcan claims our food inflation rate is at 2.7%. But based on other sources, the federal agency may be significantly underestimating If you think food prices are increasing at a much faster pace than what Statistics Canada suggests, you’re likely not imagining it. For a few years, many Canadians have suspected that the federal agency

Filed under: Canadian News, Food, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Food Affordability, food inflation, Food Inflation in Canada

Food Industry Must Tighten Security in Face of Cyber Attacks

on August 20th, 2021 by The Afro News

Experts have warned the food industry for years about the threat of becoming a target for hackers. What was once purely academic has become a reality  Meat processing giant JBS recently paid out a US$11 million ransom following a cyber attack, according to reports. Most of its meatpacking facilities, including the one in Alberta, remained

Filed under: Business, Business, Canadian News, Food, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Cyber attacks with information technology companies, Food Industry Must Tighten Security, The federal Canadian Food Inspection Agency
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