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London, Apr 8 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Neil Hall) London's Borough market has launched an initiative with the Turnips fruit and vegetable wholesaler to create bags of fruit and vegetables for Britain's National health Service (NHS) frontline workers in hospitals. The bags, which include a recipe card are delivered to a variety of hospitals over the week. The initiative creates thousands of such bags per day. FOOTAGE OF THE MARKET.SOUNDBITES OF DARREN HANNIGAN, DIRECTOR OF THE BOROUGH MARKET, AND CHARLES FOSTER, TURNIPS WORKER.
London, March 31 (EFE), (Camera: Pilar Tomás).- The London Borough of Newham is returning to normallity months after becoming the epicentre of the pandemic in England with the highest Covid-19 death rate.FOOTAGE OF NEWHAM. SOUNDBITES OF:-JITHENDHAR, UNIVERSITY STUDENT-BILLY, BUTCHER
London (UK), Dec 28 (EFE), (Camera: Guillermo Ximenis).- The city of London faces the end of an era from January 1. Brexit conditions now force the British capital to rethink its position in the global market. SOUNDBITES OF: MICHAEL HEWSON, CMC MARKETS ANALYST; NICOLAS VÉRON, CO-FOUNDER OF THE ECONOMIC POLICY THINK TANK BRUEGEL; THOMAS PUGH, CAPITAL ECONOMICS ANALYST.
From white-linen tablecloth restaurants to a local burger joint, potatoes for food service make up an estimated 55% of all potato crops sold in the US. But according to Business Insider, American farmers are now stuck with billions of pounds of potatoes they can't sell--or easily dispose of. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the closure of hundreds of thousands of restaurants and other cooked food outlets. That meant potato orders to farmers virtually stopped, leading farms across the country with piles of rotting produce. In Idaho, for example, the going rate for a sack of potatoes has gone from $12 to $3--and it takes a rate of at least $5 a sack for most farmers to break even. All in all, an estimated 1.5 billion pounds of potatoes are trapped in the supply chain across the US.
With so many people working from home, restaurant traffic is down but grocery stores are getting plenty of business. But according to Business Insider, Whole Foods had 21% fewer visitors across its stores on October 4 compared to the same day last year. That flies in the face of other grocery store chains, where traffic is bouncing back much faster. At Kroger's, for example, business was only down 2%. A Whole Foods spokesperson said stores normally get a lot of lunchtime trade from office workers, who are now working from home. Sales of packaged sandwiches and salads have fallen 75%. For every five in-store shoppers Whole Foods Markets had last October, it now only has four.