Showing posts with label buying local. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buying local. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Local Foods Memo - Farmers' Markets: Farmers' Market Season is Fast-Approaching

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Customers line the vendor stalls at the popular farmers' market in the small city of Sonora in Northern California's Gold Country fo...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Local Foods Retailing Memo: Sacramento, California-Based Raley's Supermarket Chain 'Doubling-Down' On its Local Foods Merchandising and Marketing

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Sacramento, California-based family-owned regional supermarket retailing powerhouse Raley's is expanding it's already aggressive loc...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

Local Foods Retailing Memo: Tesco is Making Stronger Commitment to Local Foods Sourcing, Marketing and Merchandising in the United Kingdom

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Tesco, the world's number three retailer and the number one food and grocery sales market share leader in its home country of the United...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Local Foods Memo: Tesco's 1,000 Mile 'Local' Scottish Chickens

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Why did the chicken cross the road? To get into the truck for its 1,000-mile round trip of course. Retail giant Tesco, the world's numbe...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Food & Community Memo [Interactive]: Davis, California Debates Small-Format and Locally-Owned Grocery Stores vs. Chains and Big-Box Stores

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A regular reader of Natural~Specialty Foods Memo informed us via an email of a lively debate currently going on in the city of Davis, Calif...