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O desenvolvimento do retalho... tanta ironia, o eficientismo funciona até deixar de funcionar:

"As supermarkets flounder, small food and drink retailers are booming...
The expansion of Keelham’s reflects the robust health of the country’s boutique food-and-drink business. There are about 4,000 such businesses today, and more are opening all the time. The National Farmers’ Retail and Markets Association, which represents about 300 farm shops, says that many members have reported a 5-10% increase in turnover this year.
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Some analysts expected the burgeoning sector of small food-and-drink companies to be decimated by the financial crash of 2008. Surely tasty treats from the local deli would be the first casualties as household budgets were slashed. In fact, the reverse has happened. The sector has not only survived, but prospered, partly due to the change in shopping habits provoked by that same recession. [Moi ici: O artigo expõe o fenómeno da polarização dos mercados]
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Another essential ingredient in the success of the small producers is the increasing demand for locally sourced food. After various scandals in Britain’s food production, from “mad-cow disease” to the discovery of horse meat in some products, consumers are much more concerned to know where their food comes from, and how it was produced.
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Farm shops and delis thus stress the local content of their food in a way that supermarkets, with their central distributions systems, usually cannot. “Provenance is really important now,”"

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