Each Friday we’ll bring you a roundup of news from CFIN, YODL and around the food world.
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Around the Food World
- BC retailer Save-on-Foods has teamed up with Ocean Wise to celebrate Plastic Free July and raise awareness of plastic pollution through the Plastic Challenge.
- Some retailers in the UK are removing best before dates from produce and dairy products to help prevent food waste.
- For those of you who didn’t make it to IFT First 2022, Foodnavigator-USA highlights the best of the annual event.
Did you know?
PwC’s June 2022 Global Consumer Insights Pulse Survey shows that Canadians’ food shopping habits have been forever changed by the pandemic. Here are some key findings:
- Canadians are adapting to supply chain disruptions and inflation by using technology to: use comparison sites to look for product availability (29%), to switch to buying online (25%), to shop at different retailers (35%), to switch to buying in-store (27%), and to change the location they usually shop in order to get the product they want (24%).
- One in three respondents have used a virtual reality (VR) channel to shop, with most buying retail products and luxury goods.
- 35% of Canadians say a company’s social policies and actions often or always influence their purchasing behaviour, while 34% sight their governance policies, and 28% sight their environmental policies and actions.
- 75% of Canadians say they’d be prepared to pay more for locally sourced products, and 66% say they’d pay more for made-in-Canada products.
- 51% of consumers shop online at least once a month on a personal computer, down from 56% in April 2021.
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