On a Sunday afternoon, customers at a Géant Casino supermarket browsed the aisles and lined up to buy meat, fish and other groceries. It was a typical shopping experience except for one thing: All the cashiers had gone home. Customers scanned items at automated checkout stations as security guards hovered [...]
When Amazon acquired Whole Foods for $13.7 billion last June, it wreaked havoc on a US grocery industry already struggling with slim margins. Now the retail giant has its eyes on France’s grocers. Over the weekend, Amazon France head Frederic Duval told newspaper Journal du Dimanche that the company aims [...]
The French government is considering new laws designed to balance the needs of farmers and those of retailers and consumers following fears that the country's producers are finding it impossible to earn their living because of downward pressure on prices. Here are some of the measures proposed by Stéphane Travert, [...]
A war on food waste in France, where supermarkets are banned from throwing away unsold food and restaurants must provide doggy bags when asked, has helped it secure the top spot in a ranking of countries by their food sustainability. Japan, Germany, Spain and Sweden rounded out the top five [...]