52. Walmart: Building a Healthy Supply Chain From Soil to Shopping Cart
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English - June 14, 2022 19:36 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBTechnology Health & Fitness Nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The food systems supply chain is a vast network of people and products that is ever evolving.
If you’re working with more than 4,500 supplies, working together to create a more sustainable future that’s good for the planet and for the people, becomes that much more of a challenge.
Walmart depends on each step working together to build the future for their consumers.
In this episode, I’m joined by Walmart’s Marco Reyes, Sr. Director Industry Initiatives and Portfolio Management, Michael Yates, Sr. Director Innovations Agricultural Strategy, and Laura Himes, Senior Merchandising Director, to talk about how the retailer is working across the food systems to provide good food from soil to shopping cart.
Join us as we discuss:
How the supply chain is working to build a healthy supply chain
Communicating with consumers on how and where produce was grown
Technologies part in food systems