All Work, No Play….?
Well it is certainly that time of year for us – we have just had our busiest 8 weeks of the year and everything should start to return to sanity soon, just as the retailers start to have their manic time of year. I have been so busy this is my first blog of November, well that will never do, will it?! Or did I hear you breathing a sigh of relief!
The speciality food world is, I think, undergoing something of a transformation at present with a certain degree of re-positioning going on. There is certainly a more hard-nosed approach being taken by certain players, one of whom is telling some of our existing suppliers that they will only continue to sell their products if they stop supplying us. Of course, that isn’t going down too well at all, with the suppliers or us. There is a fine dividing line here. (more…)