The Food Professor

Exclusive interview with Sarah Joyce, SVP Voila by Sobeys, Canada's newest grocery eCommerce launch

Episode Summary

Glass half full &  CUSMA: who wins in the food industry/sector? Double Double tracking trouble: Tim's mobile app knows where you've been....  Canada's Food Price Report goes national for 2021!  Canada’s Food Price Report is going cross-country. Jointly released by long-time collaborators Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph, the 2021 project team will include the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia. “We’re going national!” says Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director at the Agri-Food Analytics Lab and the report’s lead author. “When we started this project a decade ago, we always wanted to make it fully Canadian and have institutions across the country contribute. We now have four very strong institutions joining forces. With COVID-19, it’s going to be challenging to forecast food prices this year, so we need all the help we can get.” Despite being a world source of the ingredients, Canada lags on the final, value add product.  Where are we on a strategy to address this opportunity? What ever happened to peace, love and sustainability?  The return of plastic bags - a reality for the COVID-19 era?  Sobeys and other retailers announce resumption of BYOBag Welcome to PEI, have a bag of potatoes! Our Special Guest: Sarah Joyce, Senior Vice President, Voila by Sobeys talks about the launch of Canada's newest grocery eCommerce offering, and the power of the OCADO partnership and her new team to deliver an awesome experience on the doorstep. Immigration consults, demonstrations, closed farms...COVID & Migrant Labour the issue that isn't going away Party on the Patio: restaurants across Canada can serve customers on patios, but let's not get too excited...the industry remains in deep trouble despite this and other innovations.  Is the restaurant industry missing an opportunity for a customer expectation re-set?

Episode Notes

Welcome to the The Food Professor, episode No. 5 - I’m Michael LeBlanc along with Sylvain Charlebois!


Glass half full &  CUSMA: who wins in the food industry/sector?

Double Double tracking trouble: Tim's mobile app knows where you've been....  See: https://business.financialpost.com/technology/tim-hortons-app-tracking-customers-intimate-data

Canada's Food Price Report goes national for 2021!  Canada’s Food Price Report is going cross-country. Jointly released by long-time collaborators Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph, the 2021 project team will include the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia. “We’re going national!” says Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director at the Agri-Food Analytics Lab and the report’s lead author. “When we started this project a decade ago, we always wanted to make it fully Canadian and have institutions across the country contribute. We now have four very strong institutions joining forces. With COVID-19, it’s going to be challenging to forecast food prices this year, so we need all the help we can get.”

https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food.html
 

Despite being a world source of the ingredients, Canada lags on the final, value add product.  Where are we on a strategy to address this opportunity


What ever happened to peace, love and sustainability?  The return of plastic bags - a reality for the COVID-19 era?  Sobeys and other retailers announce resumption of BYOBag

Welcome to PEI, have a bag of potatoes!

Our Special Guest: Sarah Joyce, Senior Vice President, Voila by Sobeys talks about the launch of Canada's newest grocery eCommerce offering, and the power of the OCADO partnership and her new team to deliver an awesome experience on the doorstep. 

Immigration consults, demonstrations, closed farms...COVID & Migrant Labour the issue that isn't going away

Party on the Patio: restaurants across Canada can serve customers on patios, but let's not get too excited...the industry remains in deep trouble despite this and other innovations.  Is the restaurant industry missing an opportunity for a customer expectation re-set?

If you liked what you heard you can subscribe on Apple iTunes , Spotify or your favourite podcast platform, please rate and review, and be sure and recommend to a friend or colleague in the grocery, foodservice,  or restaurant industry.    I’m Michael LeBlanc, producer and host of The Voice of Retail podcast and a bunch of other stuff, [and I’m Sylvain Charlebois,

Stay Safe everyone!!