The Ukraine invasion has “upended one of the world’s most important breadbaskets”, said Javier Blas on Bloomberg: we’re facing “a critical juncture in food prices”. How are British supermarkets responding? With a trademark row. Waitrose has sent a legal letter to Asda claiming the latter’s new “Just Essentials” budget range – intended to help shoppers tackle the cost of living – is “too similar” to Waitrose’s own “Essentials” range launched in 2009, said BBC Business. Asda retorts that the word is “a generic and commonly used term” to describe value ranges. The debate rages on. In a world of emptier shelves and unobtainable ingredients, it’s almost comforting.…
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