The current economic climate is enough to make us all feel a little down. Days are rapidly shortening, the list of price increases rapidly lengthening, daily doom alerts demand we lower our thermostats, turn off our lights, don’t boil our kettles… (really?! We Brits cannot do without a cuppa!).

Good Sense Research presented recently at September’s Speciality Fine Food Fair on ‘driving sustainability & ESG in food & drink’ the research telling us that whilst the ongoing Cost of Living Crisis (COLC) has re-focussed consumer minds somewhat in the short-term, they continue to be consciously aware regarding sustainability issues.

For 14 years McDonalds have kept their standard cheeseburger at 99p, somehow £1.19, doesn't sound quite the same…Two pints of milk are now selling at the same price that 4 pints of milk were selling at the start of the year. UK inflation is soaring & retail is facing the consequences under the consistent inflationary pressure.