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Whole Foods' CEO Pay Discount Expires With Amazon Deal: Gadfly

Amazon's deal to buy Whole Foods may mark a number of things: the end of Whole Foods as an independent company; the end of grocery business; the end of the...

Consumers And Retailers Lose From May's Failed Gamble: Gadfly

With political storm clouds gathering, it's time to grab your Burberry mac. The luxury brand is one of the few companies exposed to the British consumer...

Ocado's Delivery Is Three Years Late And Missing Items: Gadfly

After being stuck in the warehouse for more than three years, Ocado Group Plc's delivery has finally arrived: an international contract. But it's more o...

The Future of Fish: Investors Get Into Sustainable Aquaculture

Farmed or wild? Local or imported? Organic? Or some certification you've never heard of? Anyone who has tried to be an eco-conscious seafood consumer&md...

China Spins A Worldwide Web Of Food From Mozambique To Missouri

Inside a gated compound patrolled by armed guards, hulking towers and concrete buildings loom over fields where Silva Muthemba once grew maize and fattened...

M&S Dumps Superstars, Bets On Middle England: Gadfly

When Marks & Spencer Group Plc unveiled its autumn/winter fashion collection last week, for once there was no single superstar item created to &quo...

How Bezos's Grocery Shopping Shakes Up An $800 Billion Industry

Since its founding 23 years ago, Amazon.com Inc. has upended the business of selling books, music and just about everything else we consume -- except food....

European Grocery Rivalry Expands To US As Aldi, Lidl Bulk Up

A decades-long supermarket battle in Europe is moving to the US, adding to the competitive pressure in an industry embroiled in a deflation-fuelled price w...