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New Issue of Lider: Supermarkets Become Digital Markets

Soon, customers will be able to find out all the information about every apple they buy in the supermarket: the chemicals it has been treated with, when and where it was harvested, how it arrived on the shelf… The only apples that will be packed and added instead of the sales assistant or vendor will be done by a robot.

In the new issue of Lider, Manuela Tašler writes about the stores of the future and how supermarkets are becoming a kind of digital marketplace.

In the topic of the week, you can learn how to utilize a mentor for a brilliant career. As human resources and talents become one of the fundamental prerequisites for company competitiveness, mentors are also gaining an increasingly important role. Unlike large companies that have a meticulously developed mentoring system, small ones do not even consider mentoring, although it sometimes does not require additional resources, writes Željka Laslavić.

Vanja Figenwald writes about political innovation and claims: it is fortunate that parties offer few original economic solutions. In the case of the two major parties, it is not possible to find anything that is not conventional wisdom and long-chewed economic thinking that does not need to be wasted on words in the context of new ideas. Smaller parties, however, offer somewhat more innovative, but most often only more radical solutions.

Matilda Bačelić writes about the metal boom, or how metalworkers are massively buying new machines to remain export competitive. Croatia has become the largest buyer of the most modern metal processing machines in the wider region. The reason is simple: keeping up with the technological pace of the world is the only way to retain foreign customers and open new markets, especially after years of no investment.

In the new issue, you can also read about Zmajska Brewery, co-owned by former programmer and now master brewer Andrej Čapka. It has been ranked among the top ten new ‘craft’ breweries in the world by the renowned global portal Ratebeer, winning this recognition in a competition of as many as 3,800 companies worldwide!

We also bring an interview with the CEO of Iskon, Saša Kramar, who emphasizes that with the new campaign, increasing the availability of super-fast internet, phone, and television packages, and the constant growth of revenue, Iskon, like a true 18-year-old, is finding its place in the big league.

In the world block, we bring a story about Belarus and how Alexander Lukashenko will soon have to choose between Russia and the EU after yet another electoral victory. We also write about Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize winner in economics for his analysis of poverty, as well as the sudden ‘retirement’ of Ellen Kullman, head of the chemical titan DuPont worth $65 billion.