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Global Food Prices to Stay High on Labor Crunch, Cargill CEO Says
Food prices will likely stay elevated in 2022 as disruptions to the global supply chain are set to persist, according to the head of Cargill, who highlighted labor shortages as one of the biggest risks facing the industry.
A gantry crane loads a shipping container filled with corn for export from a grain terminal operated by Cargill Inc. Photo: Bloomberg.
Nestle Sees E-Commerce Contributing a Quarter of Sales by 2025
The food industry is increasingly embracing e-commerce as the pandemic led more consumers to switch to buying groceries online.
A robotic arm lifts boxes at a Nestle SA factory in Batangas province, the Philippines. Photo: Bloomberg.
Food Giants Try Carbon Labels to Solve Their Climate Problem
Nestle SA, Pepsico Inc. and 25 other companies are backing a project that calculates a product’s environmental impact from farm to store and then grades it with a color-coded label. It’s the first time a partnership this big is working to find a one-size-fits-all way to assess the supply chain.
Farm workers harvest potatoes. Photo: Getty Images.
Rise of the Robots Speeds Up in Pandemic With U.S. Labor Scarce
American workers are hoping that the tight pandemic labor market will translate into better pay. It might just mean robots take their jobs instead.
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Meat Prices Continue to Surge With Worker Shortage
Of all the industries experiencing crunches for hourly labor, it’s hard to find one with a greater recruiting challenge than meatpacking.
A worker packages trays of ground beef chuck. Photo: Bloomberg.
‘People Are Hoarding’: Food Shortages Are The Next Supply Chain Crunch
There’s plenty of food. There just isn’t enough processing and transportation capacity to meet rising demand as the economy revs up.
A Walmart Inc. shopper walks by empty shelves. Photo: Bloomberg.
U.S. Labor Unions Are Having a Moment
U.S. organized labor is having a moment after decades of erosion in both influence and power, giving workers their best chance in recent memory to claw back lost ground.
A Deere & Co. worker holds a sign during a strike outside the John Deere Des Moines Works facility in Ankeny, Iowa. Photo: Bloomberg.
China's Energy Crisis Is Hitting Everything From iPhones to Milk
The hit from China’s energy crunch is starting to ripple throughout the globe, hurting everyone from Toyota Motor Corp. to Australian sheep farmers and makers of cardboard boxes.
Container ships are moored near the Port of Nansha in Guangzhou, China. Photo: Bloomberg.
High Quits Rates, Poaching: U.S. Firms Are Plagued by Turnover
U.S. employers aren’t just having a hard time attracting workers, they’re increasingly struggling to hold onto them.
A Post-it note reads 'I quit!' Photo: ptnimages/ Canva.
Raising Cane’s Sends Corporate Staff to Work in Restaurants
Fast-food chain Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is sending corporate staff to work in restaurants amid a severe shortage of Americans willing to work hourly jobs.
Chicken fingers and fries. Photo: Getty Images.
What Crisis? Johnson’s Team Says Supply Crunch Is Good for Wages
Faced with a supply-chain squeeze that’s increased prices across the economy, the U.K. government is seeking to recast the crisis as a good news story for British workers.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Photo: Bloomberg.
Johnson Says Brexit Britain Must Adapt Amid Fuel, Food Shortages
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he won’t fall back on immigration to solve the U.K.’s truck driver shortage, as he presented supply chain troubles that have left supermarket shelves bare and gas stations dry as a “period of adjustment” in the wake of Brexit and the pandemic.
A gas pump reads 'out of use' amid fuel shortages in the U.K. Photo: Bloomberg.
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