Food

Carrefour has had a fairly solid third quarter, with improving results for France, Belgium and Brazil. The company's e-commerce activities are also growing strongly, but Spain and Italy still struggle.

To stop global warming, we all have to eat less - far less - meat. A new international study presents us with a hard choice: either the food industry has to become more sustainable, or we destroy the planet.

Walmart wants to know what makes your heart beat faster. Literally: the American supermarket giant has requested a patent for shopping carts that register everything from customers' heartbeats to their conversations.

French retailer Leclerc is negotiating with its competitor Casino to take over "certain hypermarkets" of the Géant Casino chain. Casino recently offered up 20 of its 110 hypermarkets for sale.

A major power failure in Belgium, a distinct possibility given the inactivity of nearly all the nuclear plants in the country, would have far-reaching consequences for the distribution centres, supermarkets and food safety. Trade federation Comeos demands attention for the issue.

Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo will come to Belgium with its largest store concept 'Foodmarkt', revealed CEO Frits van Eerd at a presentation for Jumbo entrepreneurs. The concept mixes a supermarket with a restaurant. An up-market concept may mean Jumbo would target (Ahold) Delhaize rather than Colruyt.

Food retailers are looking to make the food chain more transparent and more efficient using blockchain technology. In Belgium, Carrefour is about to introduce a QR code to pork and poultry this year that shows the product's entire life span.