Welcome to the The Food Professor, episode No. 5 - I’m Michael LeBlanc along with Sylvain Charlebois!Glass half full &  CUSMA: who wins in the food industry/sector?Double Double tracking trouble: Tim's mobile app knows where you've been....  See: https://business.financialpost.com/technology/tim-hortons-app-tracking-customers-intimate-dataCanada's Food Price Report goes national for 2021!  Canada’s Food Price Report is going cross-country. Jointly released by long-time collaborators Dalhousie University and the University of Guelph, the 2021 project team will include the University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia. “We’re going national!” says Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, Senior Director at the Agri-Food Analytics Lab and the report’s lead author. “When we started this project a decade ago, we always wanted to make it fully Canadian and have institutions across the country contribute. We now have four very strong institutions joining forces. With COVID-19, it’s going to be challenging to forecast food prices this year, so we need all the help we can get.”https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food.html Despite being a world source of the ingredients, Canada lags on the final, value add product.  Where are we on a strategy to address this opportunityWhat ever happened to peace, love and sustainability?  The return of plastic bags - a reality for the COVID-19 era?  Sobeys and other retailers announce resumption of BYOBagWelcome to PEI, have a bag of potatoes!Our Special Guest: Sarah Joyce, Senior Vice President, Voila by Sobeys talks about the launch of Canada's newest grocery eCommerce offering, and the power of the OCADO partnership and her new team to deliver an awesome experience on the doorstep. Immigration consults, demonstrations, closed farms...COVID & Migrant Labour the issue that isn't going awayParty on the Patio: restaurants across Canada can serve customers on patios, but let's not get too excited...the industry remains in deep trouble despite this and other innovations.  Is the restaurant industry missing an opportunity for a customer expectation re-set?If you liked what you heard you can subscribe on Apple iTunes , Spotify or your favourite podcast platform, please rate and review, and be sure and recommend to a friend or colleague in the grocery, foodservice,  or restaurant industry.    I’m Michael LeBlanc, producer and host of The Voice of Retail podcast and a bunch of other stuff, [and I’m Sylvain Charlebois,Stay Safe everyone!!
About UsDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. Google Scholar ranks him as one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.Dr. Charlebois sits on a few company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies. Charlebois is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Business Scientific Institute, based in Luxemburg. Dr. Charlebois is a member of the Global F