The Food Professor

The hot potatoe of increasing food prices, costs and "gift" of COVID-19 and guest David Marcott from Kantar talks grocery tech trends

Episode Summary

Hot Potatoe issue: Stats. Can reports some pretty startling numbers for increases cost of some products - what's going on here? You say new NAFTA I say CUSMA,  crying over spilled milk, impacts on the dairy and other sectors of the new agreement coming into force July 1, 2020 Totally Baked Idea: from illicit to essential for retail cannabis - has the Zamboni era of recreational cannabis really begun?  April saw month/month slight drop, but year over year, wow dude lots of growth! Sizing up the increased COVID operating costs: Maple Leaf says its $20 million:  See https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-maple-leaf-foods-says-coronavirus-costs-will-add-up-to-20-million-to/ And Voila - Sobeys gets in the eCommerce game with a huge investment with OCADO Food Fraud on the rise - another gift of COVID-19? Very first special  Guest: David Marcott, SVP Cross-Industry/Cross-Border and Technology at Kantar Consulting joins us to talk retail tech innovation and balance sheet strategies of the big grocers preparing for the COVId-19 era

Episode Notes

Welcome to the The Food Professor, episode No. 4 - I’m Michael LeBlanc along with Sylvain Charlebois!

Hot potatoe issue: Stats. Can reports some pretty startling numbers for increases cost of some products - what's going on here?

You say new NAFTA I say CUSMA,  crying over spilled milk, impacts on the dairy and other sectors of the new agreement coming into force July 1, 2020

Totally Baked Idea: from illicit to essential for retail cannabis - has the Zamboni era of recreational cannabis really begun?  April saw month/month slight drop, but year over year, wow dude lots of growth!

Sizing up the increased COVID operating costs: Maple Leaf says its $20 million:  See https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-maple-leaf-foods-says-coronavirus-costs-will-add-up-to-20-million-to/

And Voila - Sobeys  gets in the eCommerce game with a huge investment with OCADO

Check out the Saputo fridge, DTC for consumers in Quebec: https://lefrigosaputo.ca/

Food Fraud on the rise - another gift of COVID-19?

Very first special  Guest: David Marcott, SVP Cross-Industry/Cross-Border and Technology at Kantar Consulting joins us to talk retail tech innovation and balance sheet strategies of the big grocers preparing for the COVId-19 era https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmarcotte/

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!!