Etiket: Basket
The Ministry of the Economy preferred Amazon to the Blue Basket for 70 purchases
In the year preceding the end of the activities of the Blue Basket, a platform favoring Quebec merchants, the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Energy (MEIE), led by Pierre Fitzgibbon,…
Grocery Basket | Reduflation, desqualiflation and Easter
To counter the price of cocoa, which has reached an all-time high, the chocolate industry has chosen to subtly reduce the format of products or reformulate the ingredients. This Easter,…
price reductions in the 20 Heures de France 2 basket
Published on 02/29/2024 9:54 p.m. Video length: 2 min Inflation: price drops in the 20 Hours of France 2 basket Inflation fell below 3% for the first time in two…
The Blue Basket ceases its activities
The Blue Basket has just written the last and final chapter of its short history. The insufficient revenue generated by the Quebec platform, which is ceasing its activities immediately, forced…
End of the Blue Basket | “It will reduce my turnover”
By announcing the end of Blue Basket, a private company, Minister Pierre Fitzgibbon took merchants by surprise. Some have not hidden their concern about losing sales if the marketplace, created…
The Blue Basket, Amazon or… Walmart?
The Blue Basket site is spinning a very bad story at the moment. It doesn’t have the prices or variety to compete with giant Amazon. Neither the warehouses nor the…
Grocery Basket | When bickering in industry costs us more
Consumers assume that price freezes are always to their advantage. Not sure. Every year, between 1er November and 1er February, grocers ask suppliers not to increase prices for very nebulous…
In our basket | Four new features under the microscope
It’s shopping time! Our team selects new products for you to put – or not – in your mouth. Updated January 9 Dehydrate: anti-waste solution It is with the stated…
Grocery Basket | Food news for 2023 (continued)
After the grocers’ code of conduct, gene editing, cultured meat and the bread cartel, here are three other food stories that grabbed attention in 2023. Posted at 1:29 a.m. Updated…
Local Christmas | In our basket
It’s shopping time! Our team selects new products for you to put – or not – in your mouth. Updated December 4 Melt for hot chocolate Who says December and…
Grocery Basket | COP28 and our food dilemma
In pursuit of a more environmentally friendly future, Canada is forced to reconcile its rich tradition of food production with the urgent need to reduce GHGs. COP28’s focus on food…
How much has the price of your grocery basket increased over time?
A grocery store that always costs you more For more than 70 years, the organization, previously known as the Montreal Diet Dispensary, has calculated the price of a basic nutritious…
Grocery Basket | Should we create a food currency?
Food insecurity is becoming a worrying problem. To help, our governments send money to their citizens without knowing if these sums are used to buy food. Why not create a…
The relevance of the Blue Basket called into question
A year after becoming transactional, is Le Panier bleu – without a general director since August – still relevant? While many retailers believe that the fundamental principles of the platform…
Grocery Basket | Ozempic rather than Oreo
As the demand for weight management medications continues to reshape eating habits, the diet industry risks being seen as a purveyor of unhealthy foods in this emerging weight loss-focused world.…
Grocery Basket | Pay less… with the smell of plastic
Dollarama will soon have more than 400 stores in Quebec. There is one Dollarama for 22,000 Quebecers, the third largest concentration in Canada after New Brunswick and Newfoundland. Despite the…
The essentials always fit in a wicker basket
We walked with our luggage, wicker basket, doll or school bag accompanied by other mothers and young children towards the flight from Buenos Aires to join our refugee parents and…
Montreal Jazz Festival | Shelves and a basket
After a week of jazz mop, our reporters deliver their impressions Posted at 1:17 a.m. Updated at 12:00 p.m. The Jazz Festival is like a big supermarket. We find everything,…
discover the new edition of the franceinfo shopping basket in your department
This is a first for eight months that franceinfo has been monitoring receipts with a magnifying glass: the price of our shopping basket has hardly increased. Consult the situation in…
In our basket | The Press
It’s shopping time! Our team selects for you new products to put you – or not – in your mouth. Updated June 19 Add your grain of salt Sometimes all…