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FRESH PRODUCE BUSINESS

I'd love to see Robert Jacques Turgot's face — the 18th-century French economist who first identified the law of diminishing...

I don’t know if this happens to you too, but ever since I started working in the fresh produce sector...

You’re heading to your local grocery store one day, and you walk in at the same time as a lady...

The phone rings very early. Too early. And it’s not just any phone: it’s the mobile phone of a well-known...

It gets harder and harder for me to explain, in plain words, why the fresh produce business is so complex....

I came across Niklas Modig (a professor and researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics) by the TED talk he...

You’ll remember that in Episode 15 I used the banana to illustrate the concept of strategically aligned supply chains. Well,...

Allow me an analogy that I believe captures the essence of many of our problems. Imagine that your fresh produce...

Welcome to a new episode of Freshconomics Podcast. Today we’re going to talk about how our prehistoric hominid brain explains...