There has been a flood of opinions as to what the ‘new normal’ is going to look like. What to get ready for, what to do to be ahead of the curve.We are being bombarded with so much information. Everyone is selling the next solution. The question is, “What is the perfect decision?” As much as we want it to be an exact science, Aki Kalliatakisexplains the human factor and how to capitalise on problem solving with a switch of mind-set rather than money thrown at a problem – with the upside of happy customers.
There is nothing quite like the smell of freshly baked bread. And a luscious selection of sweet treats and savoury delights on display has led many a budget- conscious shopper astray from their neatly planned grocery list. But what exactly is happening in bakery in the current climate? Has customer behaviour and demand changed?
Health, and affordability, is top of everyone’s mind when choosing food, and baked goods are no exception.
However, this category has the benefit of including both affordable staples and comfort food, and so bakery continues to grow! Marguerite Saunders has looked at all angles in the supermarket bakery.\
GG Alcock reports on bakery in the kasi sector (informal market). This is part of the series Excavating Silence. Here is an extract from the story Let them eat bread...
By 3am the first vetkoek are frying into a delicious golden brown, and the crowds startpassing by. Downtown Jo’burg is a frenetic mix of slums, corporate head offices of banks, and government buildings – the first and third worlds slammed together in a heaving uncomfortable mess, the rich resenting the poor, the poor aspiring for just a tiny fraction of what the rich have. More than half a million commuters stream to and from Park Station daily and many stop at Mbandze’s table top. His hands moving in a blur, Mbandze grabs handfuls of dough and expertly rolls each into a perfectly round and identically sized lump and drops them into the boiling hot cooking
The insights that GG brings to this sector of the market are invaluable. The scope of this market is astounding. Informal, untapped and growing exponentially.
When speaking to Retailers, Manufacturers and Vendors about out-of-stocks, there is one issue that is almost guaranteed to come up – The Distribution Centre (DC). Chris du Preez writes that It would seem as if the DC gets blamed for almost all ‘out-of-stocks’, and that any discussion of out-of-stocks is therefore of little or no value, until such time as the DC solves its out-of-stock problem. But is this really true?
In his article Online merchants: Check your T&Cs before they bite, Dr Howard Rybko, CDO at Syncrony Digital, says that Terms and Conditions DO apply. Many online merchants think T&C’s are a chore. They palm the job off to some sucker in their team, which leads to a last minute find & replace of some pinched T&Cs or else a kick down the road to a legal person somebody knows. Either choice carries too much risk for his liking. If you want to limit some potential unexpected costs, this article is a must read.
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In military campaigns, being logical and efficient is useless – because it makes us predictable, and if you are predictable you do exactly what the enemy expects. You've just lost the war.
logically, basically we would end up dead. There was almost always not enough information to make a perfect decision, so instincts caused us to make speedy, reliable, straightforward and non-disastrous decisions.
If you saw a long green shiny thing, you had to react immediately, or the green mamba might kill you. On my way back from doing the school run this morning, I saw a whole bunch of runners, walkers and cyclists exercising on the main road in our suburb. It doesn’t make logical sense: there’s a ton of traffic and exhaust fumes, the pavements are all broken so most of them are on the road, literally in danger of being run over by an errant taxi, and just one block away there are fume-free, beautiful and quiet roads on which we can safely exercise.
But they stick to the main road. Why? Because they are performing for the crowd, and perhaps need the spirit of other people to try harder.
Economists and finance people assume when we buy a phone or a car or an outfit, or even groceries, that we aren’t interested in the brand, in the way we are treated, nor in the person who sells it to us.
Get ready for the new season: This year yellow is everything in fashion!
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