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Shopping today – Italian cuisine – Italian Cuisine

Online services in tilt but new jobs for delivery workers, regular hours and subsidized spending for the elderly and disabled. Here is what happens on our shelves, between safety distance and new consumption trends

The last is from the last few days: shelves with the words "do not touch" in the departments of the stationery shop, of the underwear and of gardening of supermarkets. Small tensions at the checkout and the explanation of the clerks "are not basic necessities". In recent days there have been various reports on social media about this decision implemented by various brands of large retailers, based on the rules of the latest government decree.
But there is no fuss: it is just one of the many momentary changes that the Covid-19 is carrying in our carts.
Supermarkets and consumers are changing habits together. Meanwhile the safety: throughout the large retailers, disinfectant dispensers have been installed, disposable gloves have been distributed and the safety distances to be observed while standing in line at the checkout have been reported.
Our approach to shopping seems to change forever. Italians are discovering e-commerce out of necessity and perhaps, who knows, many will never leave it. As for the management of school lessons and telework, there will be a before and after.

Distribution numbers in Italy

Intana some data: ADM, the Modern Distribution Association that brings together cashiers, shop assistants, sales staff, has about 410,000 workers in Italy for 26,700 stores, now growing, given the need for recruitment.
Often employed in the front line, the staff, equipped with a mask and plexiglass dividers at the checkout (in the case of Coop), is facing an emergency in an emergency. But also to communicate correctly. Yes, because the message to the consumer is: no to exaggerated expenses. Supermarkets are replenished regularly and are open at regular times, seven days a week. therefore the first rule is and remains not to rush en masse to unload the shelves, sometimes unnecessarily. It affects our health but also that of the professionals.

The case of yeast and flour

After the Amuchina case, there are now also some products taken by storm yeast is flour. It seems that the Italians, thanks to the time spent at home and the order that pushes them to go out as little as possible (also decimating the first daily trips to the baker) are discovering a people of bakers, pizza makers and pastry chefs. From North to South, powdered and fresh yeast, flours of various types and, it seems with peaks on the weekend, mozzarella, an essential ingredient in pizza, are also snapped up.
There is also a great demand for fruit and vegetables: the encouragement of the Ministry of Health to adopt a diet that raises the immune system has turned into a + 30% demand for fresh products.

New rhythms of shopping

Forced enclosure also leads to less frequent and more reasoned spending. the point, however, is that even at home consumption has doubled: by having lunch and dinner at home every day, Italians need 25% more than their weekly supplies.
Having stopped the assaults of the past weeks, the situation, however, despite being non-normal, is settling down.
The pace of purchases? Most shop once a week. There are those who resist up to two. Supermarkets in the home are preferred, where it is easier to monitor the queue situation at the entrance. If you reach the hypermarkets, where the elevators for security reasons are reserved only for those with disability problems) you will often find the queue. This is why consumers opt for midweek and off-the-beaten-track hours, early in the morning or immediately after lunch, depending on the family organization and the new smart-working.
Small local fruit and vegetable shops have also been rediscovered, less crowded than supermarkets, bakers and small delicatessens.

Online shopping boom and crash. And new jobs are born

After our Premier Cote blessed it "it is safer" online shopping has exploded, with current delivery times of even two weeks, despite the efforts of distributors. Often offline, e-commerce sites, like the Italians, were in fact overwhelmed by the emergency.
Filling the electronic cart is somewhat difficult. And if you succeed, arrived at the time of transaction, often jump. But how the insiders are gearing up. We have heard a few. The hope that the situation will improve is concrete. And there is already someone holding the crash test.

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Literally taken by storm (it went from 4% to 20%) Esselunga's online shopping now serves 1,700 municipalities thanks to 2,500 suppliers. Free these days for the over 65 and disabled was launched in 2000. It was among the best prepared to face this tsunami of attempted supplies. However, to do the shopping you have to arm yourself with patience (up to two weeks of waiting for a delivery are the hooligans to date). The cart fills up online, even on the app. It is also possible for blind and partially sighted customers to access it. You can even choose the thickness of the slice in cured meats and there is a virtual sommelier available. Each product has an information sheet that tells its traceability for meat and fish, nutritional values, origin for fruit and vegetables and also the presence of allergens.
In 2017, the Click and Go sales channel was activated, through which the customer does online shopping and picks it up in the day with the car. The future? "They are thinking of a reorganization and a strengthening of online spending, but the situation is now too changeable to define to what extent".

Eataly

The online emergency for the group founded by Oscar Farinetti, which currently ranks among the most efficient, is holding up strongly. Higher prices than large retailers, currently guarantees the shopping delivered three to 7 days from the order. A real godsend right now. "The volumes have more than tripled," they explain, "to cope with the request, we have strengthened the logistics, with additional agreements also with Amazon. We have also lowered the minimum spending threshold, for free home delivery, from 70 to 39 Euros, for long promotional periods . There are two ways: Eataly Today, with home delivery even during the day in Milan, Rome and Turin, used mostly for over the counter products (bread, meat, fish and cheeses as well as fruit and vegetables) and there is the e-commerce site. The latter, with the Pantry service, allows you to order multifunctional packages at special prices.

Iper la Grande i

Here too, online shopping and collection in the shop with Iperdrive. None the additional cost, in all regions where the brand is present. Here we are not only talking about shopping: the chain offers, on 19 out of 22 stores, the Iperstation service where you can fill up with petrol 24 hours a day. In some stations you can also recharge your electric car. IperFarma, on the other hand, is the parapharmacy service inside the shops, open at the same times as the shops. Here also discounts for over 65s: for them, home shopping in the provinces of Varese, Milan, Verona and Monza is free.

Despar

First of all, safety and hygiene. Exclusively telematic negotiations with suppliers (email and video calls) for the Despar, Eurospar and Interspar chain. A widespread distribution (1393 points of sale in Italy), the group's shops face the emergency with a reinforcement, even logistical, of online shopping: Desparcasa, with home deliveries in Sicily, Puglia, Calabria and Abruzzo. Their strength, however, remains the collection in the store: the most popular products? Mineral water, fresh fruit and vegetables, milk, pasta and vegetable purée.

Coop

EasyCoop is the online shopping service at home for Coop Alleanza 3.0, the largest Italian consumer cooperative, founded in early 2026 by the union of Coop Adriatica, Coop Consumers Nordest and Coop Estense. At the moment they have the widest offer today, on the national territory, of food e-commerce with an assortment of 13 thousand products, of which 3 thousand fresh. Slowdowns here too and reinforcements on the way. Shopping is done from PC or smart phone by downloading the app. mobile, and you receive it directly on the landing of the house. EasyCoop currently delivers free to over 65s throughout Italy. Nova Coop Piemonte instead offers the free service, regardless of age, over 60 Euros. In this emergency period, deliveries are not available before 6-8 days. This is why the brand is reorganizing itself, asking the customer for collaboration "organize your online purchases in time and calculate well, studying the pantry, what you really need", the advice.

Coronavirus, in Milan from today the bars can remain open after 18 – Italian Cuisine

The service, however, must be managed exclusively at the table, by the staff of the restaurant, and there must be no gatherings of customers in front of the counter

The bars in Milan, from today, can return to being open even after 18: the Region has established it which, on the institutional website, however specifies that the service must be managed exclusively at the table, by the staff of the restaurant, and that there must be no gatherings of customers in front of the counter. «The bars and / or pubs that provide the assisted administration of food and drinks are not subject to restrictions and therefore can remain open as provided for restaurants, provided that it is the limit of the maximum number of place settings has been respected expected by the year ".

The goal, explains the ordinance, is always to "limit the crowding situations of several people in one place" to contain the coronavirus in the regional areas classified as yellow (i.e. the whole regional territory with the exception of the red zone). Therefore, if «a limited number of people can enter restaurants, then «the same, therefore, also applies to i bar where there are quota seats and who serve at the table and not at the counter. "

Sunday evening, the Lombardy Region, with aordinance signed Sunday by the President of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana and by the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, he had decided to close bars, pubs and discos from 18 to 6 in the morning. The document has not been "nor" modified or updated and remains fully in force ", but the administration" on the basis of the assessments of each specific situation can further detail the order in accordance with its objective ".

According to the Fipe study office, the Italian Federation of Public Exercises, Milan's premises could this week lose three million euros a day. A difficult situation for local people to live thanks to daily collection.

Lino Enrico Stoppani, president of Fipe, asks "the support of the Government for the protection of a fundamental sector for the Italian economy, brought to its knees throughout the national territory by this serious crisis situation and which so far has done its part with great sense of responsibility by following the instructions of the authorities. To date, the turnover of public businesses in some areas is dropped to peaks of 80% and according to our estimates, we risk losing € 2 billion in the first 4 months of the year. " If the situation does not change quickly, according to the federation they are over 20 thousand jobs at risk.

The island of Arturo today is also a literary winery – Italian Cuisine

Procida: wine literature and good food. In every season!

Elsa Morante, in her book The island of Arturo, has managed to describe Procida so well that once you arrive on the island you have the feeling of waiting for someone. Just like Arturo, who every day awaited the arrival of his father at the port, perhaps because someone is always expected on an island. And yet, over the years Procida has become known more for The postman by Massimo Troisi, perhaps also because most of the Procidan locals and restaurants have continuous references to the film. There was, therefore, for a long time a great need to dedicate something to Elsa Morante, who more than thirty years before, already in 1957 with the Strega Prize and then in 1962 with the homonymous film by Damiano Damiani, had introduced Procida in the world. Tarcisio Ambrosino, uncle of the famous chef Marco Ambrosino, has thought of this.

The birth of the winery

There is no need for presentations for Marco Ambrosino, a native of Procida, who opened his restaurant in Milan in 2014 28posti, unquestionably among the best in the city. His uncle Tarcisio, on the other hand, for years dealt with something completely different, turning to showrooms from Naples to Milan. Until, as often happens, the strong appeal of the island did not bring him home, to Procida, where he felt that the time had come to listen and shape his two great passions: "books and wine, is there a better union?"Together with his nephew Antonio, they decided to open a literary winery, then non-existent on the island, and do it on the marina of Marina di Corricella, where cars do not circulate and can only be reached on foot or by sea, in one of the most symbolic and historic places in all of Procida. In fact, La Corricella has existed since the Bourbon era; here the king had his summer residence and always here is the former prison, another symbol of the island. In this way Elsa Morante's great masterpiece is no longer just a book to read, a wonderful story of waiting and an initiation into life, but it is also a place, increasingly appreciated and frequented, with a découpage counter all done with the pages of the text in the various languages in which it was translated and with the posters of the film of the countries in which it came out.

Wine and food

To promote and make the most of its territory, Tarcisio has decided to include almost only wines from Campania, the result of in-depth research that he personally carries out. It can be seen from the paper, which goes from great known local labels, to other smaller and lesser-known ones, such as Ettore Sammarco from Ravello. Accompanying the wines, there are a series of tastes both of sea and of land, because even though Procida is very close to the sea, too often we forget how much the islands are also and above all land. Thus, we find bruschetta with crab meat, tuna and anchovies, one of the symbolic products of the island, also worked with walnuts and pistachio, along with alpine cheeses, including the smoked little devils of the Buongusto di Arola Dairy, above the mountains of Vico Equense. And then to follow, for dinner, there is only the embarrassment of the choice, even if the historical restaurant From Girone it remains an institution: from raw antipasti to paccheri with fresh fish up to spaghetti with lemon pesto, now legendary. In this regard, we recall that Procida is also theisland of lemons, which differ from all others to be giants, with a huge albedo.

Six authors looking for a character

Needless to say, to continuously honor your land, within the winery there are a series of texts that tell the island or the Campania region. Therefore, this could only be the place chosen by Nutrimenti to open the famous literary event in June Procida Tells, during which six writers arrive on the island to identify six interesting stories to tell. From Luigi Lo Cascio to Gad Lerner, up to Gramellini, Daria Bignardi, Franco Arminio and so on with a series of illustrious authors in search of stories. This shows us how the island of culture continues to attract great characters, just as in the period in which Elsa Morante lived, in her small pension El Dorado.