Supply Management, May 9th, 2002
TELEVISION Food Junkies BBC2, 24 April It's a rare TV programme that opens with a professional purchaser. But the final part of the BBC's Food Junkies series hit the road in Portugal with Richard Hind, Waitrose's central fruit buyer. A decision from him that a local fruit - the kiwano horned melon, in this case - would be the next big thing for the middle-class, dinner-party set could transform the local economy. The episode was light on stats, apart from 75 per cent of all food is bought from the five big supermarkets. Much of the programme looked at their rise from the consumer's point o...
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