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	<description>Where Sauerkraut does his thinking</description>
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		<title>A greengrocer called Spaghetti House?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, no &#8211; a greengrocer who is smart enough to earn extra revenue by advertising a convenient lunch location up the road. 
The road by the way is Oxford Street, London , directly across from retail icon Selfridges.
The photo was taken in mid-June, in a season the English call &#8217;summer&#8217;!
The fruit is nicely blocked in its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Do Supermarket Trolleys Go To Die?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who says the laws of nature only apply to living creatures like humans and elephants?  Supermarket trolleys have a soul as well &#8211; and they certainly suffer a fair amount of abuse during their life span.  The odd supermarket trolley escapes and ends up in front gardens, on motorway berms and up side down in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/where-do-supermarket-trolleys-go-to-die/</link>
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		<title>The Howard Cedric Zingel Motion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a letter in the mail from Tony Gibbs today.  Not that I was the only one who was privileged in this way.  Every shareholder of Turners &#38; Growers would have received the same letter.  Yes, you have heard right, Sauerkraut likes to keep his nose close to the wind and therefore invests in produce [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/the-howard-cedric-zingel-motion/</link>
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		<title>Has Walmart Become A Respectable Produce Merchant?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still don&#8217;t know how serious consumers take their produce shopping these days?  Can&#8217;t get your head around whether organic produce offers work? Well, in the absence of intelligent news reporting in this country, we have to revert to this other place where English is spoken, the good US of A.
When a shopping reporter (or was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Has Plans.  Big Plans!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mention the concepts of &#8216;threat&#8217; and &#8216;opportunity&#8217; to anyone remotely connected with produce industry strategy in this country and China gets a mention.  Both Chinas actually.  Whilst Potatoes New Zealand is busy trying to figure out how to optimise its fledgling export relationship with Taiwan and Summerfruit New Zealand is keen to export more cherries into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The West Island Banana Price Slump</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian ABC network ran a story on low banana prices in late May, stating that grower returns had dropped to A$5 a carton.  The story was picked up by Fresh Plaza, who being Dutchmen, managed to get their geography wrong and announced the story under the headline, &#8220;NZ: Bananas going dirt cheap&#8221;.  I have no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/the-west-island-banana-price-slump/</link>
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		<title>Who Gets To Drive The Produce Bus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What comes to your mind when you see a vehicle like this?  Brightly coloured, two front bits and no rear end, a re-engineered middle and a ruddy great banana on the top of the roof?
I don&#8217;t know about you, but what comes to my mind is that this very cleverly put together promotional vehicle reflects the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/102/</link>
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		<title>Horticulture Export Authority Chairs Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended a New Zealand Horticulture Export Authority (HEA) meeting.  Its full title was HEA Chairs Meeting and Exporter Workshop.  The meeting had a dual purpose.  The morning was spent discussing the findings and recommendations of HEA&#8217;s 5-year Statutory Review Report.  The afternoon consisted of workshops on effective produce export market development techniques [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/horticulture-export-authority-chairs-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Parallel Universes and Supermarkets</title>
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It does not matter where in the developed world one lives nor whether one is male or female, straight or otherwise, of European descent or already part of the cultural &#38; ethnic mix that our descendants will turn into – supermarkets are never far from our mind. The hunter/gatherers of prehistoric times pursue these activities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hortsource.org/parallel-universes-and-supermarkets/</link>
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		<title>Multi-level Margin Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are several levels to this debate. The first and most basic level is – what is a margin and how do I calculate it? I don’t want to waste my time writing about something every retailer should understand, but unfortunately too few do.
The second level is product or category related margins. What should the [...]]]></description>
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