Food Week April 26, 2024

Welcome to Food Week April 26. You don’t want to pass over all the cool stuff this week, what with cookie wars, new look Matzo, secret McDonald’s menu items, AI in milk, meats in sweets and a whole lot more. So have a Nuka Cola and Enjoy. MACRO Biden Administration raises the minimum salary at which workers can be considered salaried management and therefore not eligible for overtime. to FTC…

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Food Week April 19, 2024

Welcome to Food Week April 19, 2024: A cavalcade of the bad and the weird. Gold mining with whey, post rapture tip claw back, bee thieves, vodka rage in Alberta, intermittent fasting coronaries, cooking oil from algae, ghost distilleries and dying micro-breweries, bird flu in cow’s milk, a TikTok ban. Thank God for gin. Enjoy. MACRO TikTok likely to get banned next week. Even the CEO of Dow…

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Food Week April 12, 2024

Welcome to Food Week April 12, 2024. This weeks report very punchy, brisk, lots of quick hits, Except on avian influenza which is freaking people out in new ways. And where the author complains about food delivery. Anyway, Enjoy MACRO Inflation is stubborn and remains at about 3.8 percent annually. And, in a reversal groceries were flat but restaurant prices piked in March. 10k boomers reach…

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Food Week April 5, 2024

Welcome to Food Week April 5, 2024. A difficult week with the killing of the WCK workers so perhaps we can be distracted by more mundane failings like plastic in produce, restaurant delivery, ketchup in hot dogs, Asian shrimp, salmon, Walgreens and the fluffernutter. Enjoy. MACRO The job market has another strong performance in March. As if the situation in Gaza wasn’t tragic enough, World…

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graBANGO!

Aldi’s recently announced a partnership with GrabanGo, a check-out free technology competing in the same space as Amazon Go’s grocery stores. We were curious to try it out at the store in Aurora, IL for two reasons. One we wanted to see how a no-frills retailer like Aldi embraced a technology that has mostly been associated with the paradigm destroying concept of Amazon Fresh. Secondly, we were…

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Food Week March 29, 2024

Welcome to Food Week March 29, 2024. Happy Easter! We have a lot to share this week, a lot of it about things people are doing wrong: making Negronis, pricing chocolate, pour over coffee, insider trading, antibiotics, washing vegetables and buying cheese. Do better people. Enjoy! MACRO Disastrous bridge collapse in Baltimore will resonate across supply chains, including food. The workers…

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CosMc: First Impressions

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Food Week March 22, 2024

Welcome to Food Week March 22, 2024. A lot to review while you are watching basketball this weekend. New technologies for packaging and protein in soy, drone delivery of food, good vermouth, healthy sauces and the coming chocolate crisis. And much more. Enjoy! MACRO Financial markets bounce back. Latest shutdown averted. No country benefits more than the US from immigration. It will $7…

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Food Week March 15, 2024

Welcome to Food Week March 15, 2024. Late update as this week we attended the Expo West show. What a week! St. Patrick’s Day and Pi day – so many made up holidays! But lots of fun things below. Enjoy! MACRO Housing is the main source of inflation. A generation completely unfamiliar with inflating prices is struggling but unmoored? The obesity capitals of the world. Chocolate is in…

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Food Week March 8, 2024

Welcome to Food Week March 8, 2024. Tonight is a trip to Kumiko, renowned cocktail bar and Monday heading to Expo West. So a breezy version exposing you to new things like chlormequat, grocery store deep fakes, glutenin, AI in the drive thru, Huanglongbing, giostra dalcol and much more. Enjoy! MACRO Economy added 275,000 jobs in February but unemployment rate ticked up as more people join the…

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Food Week March 1,2024

Welcome to Food Week March 1. This week, things that seem contradictory. Onions and peanut butter. Savory and cocktails. Health and potato chips. Dollar Stores and food deserts. Rum and peanuts. Lead and applesauce. Ramen and nutrition. And much more. Enjoy. MACRO The Fed says inflation still hasn’t fallen enough to allow a rate drop. Will semaglutides (weight loss drugs like Ozempic and…

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Food Week February 23,2024

Welcome to Food Week February 23. The theme this week seems to be… for reasons? Why $40 martinis? Or why throw oranges in water? In what way is Italy trying to be like Florida? And why disco drinks, or red wine and condensed milk, for that matter? Why is soaking your dishes bad? And why kale? For reasons. Enjoy. MACRO Financial markets crazy about AI, Invidia. Huge amounts of plastics are…

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Food Week February 16, 2024

Welcome to Food Week February 16, 2024. Super Bowl, Mardi Gras Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday all in the same jam packed week. So wings, a Hurricane, Chocolate, a Paczki and fried fish. Erp. And a jammed update too with cultivated craziness, merger mania, plastic panic, Philly fights, rioja risk and a lot more . Enjoy! MACRO Food and Housing led way to inflationary January. About the only…

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Food Week February 9, 2024

Welcome to Food Week February 9. In addition to the usual brilliant insights and Shavian wit that comes with the weekly update, we have some new things. First, I have added a new section called the Drink Corner for your overall beverage edification. And we will be adding updates to Bluesky, which may or may not be the successor to the declining Twitter. Enjoy. MACRO The recession that never…

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Food Week February 2, 2024

Welcome to Food Week February 2, 2024. Lots of stuff, including trends worth following: another weight loss drug, digital wallet growth, changes to tipping culture and green energy lowering chicken prices. Some things, like cod, are not sustainable: cocktails that taste like sandwiches and deep fried toothpicks! Enjoy MACRO American’s are suddenly catching on that the economy is strong, thanks…

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Food Week January 26, 2024

Welcome to Food Week January 26, 2024. It’s about the learning. For instance, It is better for the environment to re-use the disposable plastic bag than to carry groceries in a tote. Learning how to economize cookware and recipes. An alternative to Pappy. Microwaving your tea water. Knowing how to tip, for God’s sakes. And much more. Enjoy. MACRO America is setting records in new business…

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Food Week January 19, 2024

Welcome to Food Week January 19. On our way to the Fancy Food Show in Las Vegas this weekend. in the meantime lots of concerns about micro and nano plastics getting into our systems in a variety of ways. But fun stuff, too. The discontinued food twitter and the weird history of the bar code makes for good reading, you ca learn about circular economies and the pop tart and how to make ginger beer.…

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