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Sick of not knowing if your avocado is ripe or bruised? This scanner could change that
By Isabella Kelly

An Australian-first avocado "ripeness scanner" is being trialled, with the aim of telling customers exactly when their avocados will be ready to eat.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-04/new-avocado-ripeness-scanner-trial-australia/106524662

#FruitGrowing #Exports #Supermarkets #IsabellaKelly

Sick of not knowing if your avocado is ripe or bruised? This scanner could change that

An Australian-first avocado "ripeness scanner" is being trialled, with the aim of telling customers exactly when their avocados will be ready to eat.

Emsquared 1d ago

I see many UK supermarkets are doing cut price veg ala Xmas. Lidl has 8p bags of spuds. When did Easter become like Xmas or have I just been living in a cave?
#CostofLiving #UK #supermarkets

World news | The Guardian 1d ago

M&S calls for crackdown on ‘brazen, organised, aggressive’ retail crime https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/03/marks-spencer-calls-crackdown-retail-crime-clapham #MarksSpencer #Supermarkets #SadiqKhan #ShabanaMahmood #Labour #London #Crime #RetailIndustry #UkNews #Business #Politics #YoungPeople

M&S calls for crackdown on ‘brazen, organised, aggressive’ retail crime

Bosses write to home secretary and London mayor listing series of incidents staff have faced in past week

The Guardian

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 1d ago

The collapse of National Car Parks (NCP) has been widely attributed to the sales & lease back of its estate (to facilitate the extraction of cash by private equity owners), whose programmed-in rent rises eventually outpaced revenue growth for reasons outside NCP's control.

The Q. is whether the supermarket sector (where around 50% of stores have been sold & leased back) might be subject t the same problem if the cost of living crisis continues?

Time will tell.

#supermarkets #business
h/t FT