All The Grocer articles in 21 June 2014 – Page 3
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Comment and Opinion
Crime against independents is not taken seriously
I have previously written of the success achieved in crime fighting in wholesale with our alert and intelligence initiativ…
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Comment and Opinion
Findus Italia's gay pasta ad answers back to Barilla boss
Snaps to Findus Italia, which this week unveiled an enlightened new ad campaign featuring a gay couple…
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News
Robo-froyo: Tesco Covent Garden installs Yoomoo serving robot
Fresh from launching trials of automatic tills, Tesco has gone one step further by piloting a yoghurt-serving robot…
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News
Emarket to take on wholesale rivals on 100 core lines
Online wholesale site Emarket has pledged to beat Booker and Bestway’s prices on 100 core lines…
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Comment and Opinion
Entrepreurial start-ups are now the cool places to work
When I was leaving university, there was a very conventional career path for ambitious top-flight graduates…
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News
QD Stores opens its first Thingmebobs in Swaffham
QD Stores has opened its first Thingmebobs store since acquiring the discount chain in January 2013…
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Comment and Opinion
Aldi scores with Graham Taylor's cider-spilling World Cup ad
We’ve enjoyed Aldi’s simple and clever price comparison ads for some time now, but its World Cup special deserves praise…
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Comment and Opinion
A taco world record for Old El Paso
Everyone loves a world record – but the good ones (fastest car, longest toenails etc) all require rather a lot of effort…
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Comment and Opinion
Puff & Fluff prepares for a deluge of artisan food phone calls
The closure of Heart of England Fine Foods has spread panic through the ranks of money-for-old-rope merchants…
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News
Britain's best high street competition a 'gimmick'
The government has been accused by of “tinkering around the edges” with “gimmicks” for best high street…
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News
UBUK pulled deal with Aldi for own-label Digestives
UBUK has pulled the plug on a multimillion pound deal with Aldi for an own-label version of McVitie’s Digestives biscuits…
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Comment and Opinion
Tiger the Tesco Kirkcaldy cat goes gentle into that good night
The tabby cat known to Kirkcaldy shoppers simply as ‘Tesco cat’ has moved on to the big scratching post in the sky…
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News
Nisa Heritage range gets a major revamp
Nisa’s revamped Heritage range is set to go on shelf on Monday…
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Comment and Opinion
Do supermarkets have any right to demand supplier loyalty?
What to do about the discounters? That is the question every grocery retailer is asking. (Or should be.)…
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News
New Grocer 33 store of the week methodology announced
The Grocer is unveiling a new and improved methodology for The Grocer 33 store of the week…
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News
Co-op store staff latest to raise fears over redundancies
The Co-operative Group is piloting new processes in its food stores that could lead to major redundancies…
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Analysis and Features
Sainsbury's and Netto: If you can't beat them, join them
The major grocery retailers have been scratching their heads for some time over what to do about the rise of the discounters. Sainsbury’s now thinks it has got the answer.
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Analysis and Features
Mike Snowdon: Grocer Gold Store Manager of the Year
Mike Snowdon is the first Waitrose boss to win the Store Manager of the Year competition at The Grocer Golds…
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Category Report
Focus on Sports & Energy Drinks
As sugar comes under fire from every angle, one of the sweetest soft drinks sectors of all is flying…
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Analysis and Features
Deals deepen as mults fight for share of World Cup spend
The latest figures from promotions specialists Assosia show the major multiples are competing hard across the board for that all-important World Cup spend.