The Farm-to-Fork Pitch Has a Problem: Pluckk Makes Two-Thirds of Its Money Through Middlemen
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Direct-to-consumer produce was supposed to cut out intermediaries. India's Pluckk now earns 60–65% of revenue through Blinkit, Zepto and Instamart — and lost ₹55 crore on ₹85 crore of sales. The intermediary changed; it did not disappear.
Stop the Bleed: What Siloed Inventory Actually Costs a Multi-Store Business
Every store running its own stock list is a store selling blind. The lost revenue is measurable, the arithmetic is unforgiving, and the fix is no longer an enterprise-only purchase.
300,000 Metric Tons of Beef Against a 75-Year Low in the Herd. The Math Doesn’t Work.
A signed proclamation opens 300,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings to duty-free entry over 90 days. Purdue's analysis puts the retail effect well below 1%. The binding constraint is a cattle herd at its smallest since 1951, and imports cannot fix…