Has everyone noticed?
Here in #Germany almost all #supermarkets use #epaper displays to show prices. They look great. It's hard to notice that it's not ink on dead trees.
That's thousands of displays per shop. Times thousands of shops in the entire country.
Some of those displays break or otherwise get replaced.
So there must be piles of used displays around the country... but where?
Does any of my fellow #hackers know how to get some of that #trash treasure?
https://www.europesays.com/1801842/ Criminals could be sentenced to work at Iceland instead of prison | News UK #iceland #island #News #prisons #SUPERMARKETS #UK
Japan is seeing more cases of bears making their way into homes and shops as the animal's natural food sources become scarce. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/27/japan/society/bear-at-home/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #bears #animals #akita #fukushima #supermarkets
People want to keep away from ultra-processed foods, Waitrose report finds https://www.diningandcooking.com/1734566/people-want-to-keep-away-from-ultra-processed-foods-waitrose-report-finds/ #Editor'sPicks #FoodAndDrink #Fortune500Europe #health #RecipeTopics #Recipes #supermarkets #tiktok #waitrose
Coles and Woolworths are buying up large independent grocers to safeguard their market dominance, claims IGA. This strategy blocks smaller retailers from growing into competitive alternatives, according to recent inquiry findings.
#coles #woolworths #iga #supermarkets #australiagrocery #retail #competition #smallbusiness #australianbusiness #marketdominance
Business enterprises. From the series: Notes on the country I live in
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#Asian #Chinese #moe_tahurangi #Kōtuia #Youngadults #Signs(Notices) #Supermarkets #silver #photographicgelatin #photographicpaper #workprints #gelatinsilverprints #NewZealand #undefined
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Workers in Woolworths warehouses claim they are increasingly being pushed to comply with unrealistic and risky productivity standards. Illustration: Ben Sanders/
Profits from distribution
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/oct/01/coles-and-woolworths-have-leapfrogged-their-peers-in-profitability-these-charts-prove-it
Meanwhile in Minchinbury
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-11/base-brikha-death-woolworths-bans-pallet-dispenser/102579432
Capos always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
https://unitedworkers.org.au/supermarket-supply-chain-logistics/
#Capitalism #warehouseworkers #UWU United Workers #Union
#Amazon #Woolworths #automation #logistics #supermarkets #robots #pallets
"By 2020, the world was producing much more food than its inhabitants eat: nearly 3,000 calories per person a day. Even with the quantities that we waste, there is enough food in the world to feed everyone"
Todays Guardian long read on the scandal of food waste and how we can stop it.
#FoodWaste #ClimateEmergency #Farming #Supermarkets #Agriculture
Some UK #restaurants, #supermarkets and #TakeAways have been lying about their #FoodHygiene ratings, and others have failed to disclose poor ratings:
BBC News - Food rating lies exposed by BBC secret recording - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wp46l3gv4o
You can check a business's rating here:
If you're not satisfied, or if the business has been lying about its rating, you know what to do.
The supermarket oligopoly has a clear idea about how much you value convenience and has priced it in.... Which's study is yet one more reason we need better regulation of the supermarket oligopoly....
They've driven small local stores out of business and now they have the field (largely) to themselves are free to put the prices back up.
If you think the supermarkets are our 'friends' then think again!
