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Retail butchers should take advantage of a new market – ready made meals

If you’ve been to your local supermarket in the past few months, you may have noticed a new type of product has begun to be sold in large quantities. Ready made meals used to be fairly basic offerings of frozen pizza or sausage rolls, a few microwaveable trays with nondescript contents tucked away in a corner.

Now, the ready-made meal section in the local supermarket can take up a whole cabinet, and is filled with incredibly diverse, high quality meals from all cuisines and for all occasions.

What difference does recyclable packaging make for retailers and their customers?

In Australia, we’re experiencing a society that’s becoming ever-more environmentally conscious, a government that’s just starting to regulate in this area, and the loss of our get-out-of-jail-free card in China’s refusal to accept any more of our waste. Recycling our overload of packaging has become one of the biggest issues in Australia right now.

Consumers and suppliers alike are starting to become concerned about their obligations under these new rules. But what differences will the push for recyclable packaging make for both these parties?

Australian bushfires 2020 - Likely Impact on Australian Industries

While we may consider the immediate danger and loss these have caused serious enough, it is scary to realise that the long term consequences of this virulent bushfire season may be even more serious.

Consumer opinion - should supermarkets ditch vacuum packaged meat?

Several Coles customers recently took to social media expressing their frustration when trying to open their meat purchased from the large supermarket chain which was wrapped in vacuum packaging, claiming it is too difficult to open and poses as a safety hazard.