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
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How Gene Editing Helps Farmers and Consumers
on December 15th, 2021
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
Food Supply Chain Resilience Put to The Test By B.C. Floods
on December 1st, 2021
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
Food Theft Is On The Rise As Prices Climb
on November 22nd, 2021
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
Can Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Solve Global Food Security Issues?
on November 16th, 2021
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
The Rise of The Once-silent, Once-hidden Food Worker
on November 2nd, 2021
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
More Canadians Than Ever Are Suffering From Food Insecurity
on November 1st, 2021
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
How Serious is Food Inflation in Canada?
on September 27th, 2021
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
Food Industry Must Tighten Security in Face of Cyber Attacks
on August 20th, 2021
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
How Many Restaurants do we Really Need in Canada?
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