{"id":18570,"date":"2022-09-20T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/?p=18570"},"modified":"2022-09-20T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:20:17","slug":"7-questions-with-yunib-siddiqui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/2022\/09\/20\/7-questions-with-yunib-siddiqui\/","title":{"rendered":"7 questions with&#8230;Yunib Siddiqui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nYunib<span lang=\"en-US\"> Siddiqui is CEO of Jones the Grocer.\u00a0<\/span>Established 25 years ago in Australia, Jones the Grocer has<span lang=\"en-US\"> 27 <\/span>stores across the Middle East. Jones the Grocer is a food emporium featuring speciality food retail, a signature walk-in cheese room, a charcuterie, bakery, patisserie and deli set within an award-winning caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the best way to start your day?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 2.5 km walk followed by 30 minutes of yoga. Five minutes of meditation. Then, a well-brewed cup of tea with a toasted multi-grain and acai berry jam from Jones the Grocer, of course!<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could be any character from a movie, who would you be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>James Bond, who doesn\u2019t?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your greatest achievement?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marrying my wife and raising three boys to men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What advice would you give your 13-year-old self?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keep a diary. I\u2019ve forgotten so much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you had 24 hours left on Earth, what would you do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nature, somewhere stunningly beautiful. I\u2019d probably ease my way to the end with Psylocibins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who or what is your biggest inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t really look at inspiration as something static. I am constantly inspired by simple, everyday things. Inspiration, for me at least, can be glimpsed in anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you like to achieve in the next 10 years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d like to write a book of short stories.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yunib Siddiqui, CEO of Jones the Grocer, shares his innermost aspirations and accomplishments <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":18571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3937,1323,3936,1,4106],"tags":[1376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18574,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570\/revisions\/18574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meretailnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}