All The Grocer articles in Blogs – Page 5
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Comment & Opinion
Is the supertanker changing
Today Tesco posted a 0.1% increase in UK like-for-like sales - not wildly impressive, perhaps, but nevertheless a major improvement on the previous quarter, and the first time in quite a while the numbers have been heading in the right direction.
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King's sign o' the times
There’s a range of responses in today’s papers to Tesco’s results. Several focus on what the dip in profits means for Fresh & Easy, the FT styling comments from Philip Clarke about the loss-making chain’s performance as a “US ultimatum”…
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Zetar's sweet-talking suitor
There won’t be quite the same outcry as there was over Cadbury, and hopefully not the same borderline-xenophobic headlines in some of the papers…
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The new edtion of The Grocer is now online
Philip Clarke took to the podium today at today’s IGD conference to offer his (latest) vision of the future. With all the unanswered questions currently facing Tesco’s boss, it probably made a nice change for him to look past the present…
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Buerk savant
Even if there wasn’t so much interesting stuff to discuss it would have been worth sitting through yesterday’s IGD Convention just for the annual delight that is host Michael Buerk ripping all the day’s speakers to shreds - strictly tongue in cheek , of course…
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Blame it on the weatherman
When Hip-Hop doyenne Missy Elliot sampled the Ann Peebles classic “I Can’t Stand the Rain” for her 1997 breakthrough hit “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)”, it’s unlikely she knew that one day it would become the unofficial theme tune for Greggs.
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Comment & Opinion
Breakfast blues
Today’s papers were quick to pick up on a survey revealing that more and more children are going into school hungry. Seventy-nine per cent of teachers reckoned kids were turning up with rumbling tums, and more than half said the problem was getting worse…
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Blame it on the bean counters
There are only two certainties in life, as anyone will tell you: death and taxes. Unless you’re Starbucks, that is. It hasn’t paid a bean in corporation tax for the past three years, according to an investigation into the coffee giant’s UK tax affairs by Reuters…
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Is it time retailers stood up in the badger cull debate
It’s been a busy week with badgers. From farmers being threatened with losing Freedom Food accreditation if they take part in the impending cull pilot and pre-eminent scientists criticising the government’s cull policy in a national newspaper…
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Turning up the Turbo Tango
You couldn’t ask for a better demonstration of Turbo Tango’s USP.
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Paterson books a place in the last chance saloon
Everyone loves a good export story, and this one was shaping up rather nicely. Less than two months after being shuffled into Defra, Secretary of State Owen Paterson was set to fly the flag for British food and drink in Paris - of all places!…
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Time for an energy drinks enquiry
Monster is having a nightmare. But it’s nothing compared with what the parents of Anais Fournier have been through since the Maryland 14-year-old died last Christmas after drinking two 680ml cans of what the brand refers to as its ‘killer energy brew’ in a day.
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Comment & Opinion
Asda's trial by radio
When Sian Jarvis appeared on yesterday’s Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme to chat through Asda’s work towards the Responsibility Deal with presenter James Naughtie, it’s safe to say things didn’t quite go as planned for the Asda corporate affairs chief.
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Comment & Opinion
Aldershot, a turner and a sausage sarnie
A rugby club in Aldershot - on a wet, cold and windy Sunday evening - is a long way to go for a decent sausage sarnie.
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Comment & Opinion
A turn-up for the high street
Is Mary finally making an impact on the high street? It might not get as much attention as her eye-catching ideas for pop-up shops, markets and crèches, but The Distressed Retail Property Taskforce, set up as a result of a Portas Review recommendation, is serious stuff…
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A new hope for retailers
Not everyone in The Grocer office this morning shared my enthusiasm for the news that Disney was expanding its empire with the $4bn acquisition of Lucasfilms…
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Tesco's big week
Tesco has had a busy week, even by its standards. It begun by launching a return to double points on Clubcard…
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All Greek to me
How Greek should Greek yoghurt be? That is the question facing the High Court in London, as Total Greek Yoghurt maker Fage and US yoghurt heavyweight Chobani fight over who has the right to call their yoghurt “Greek”…
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Comment & Opinion
Mum's the word at Asda
“Just watched the @Asda Xmas advert - ffs, what the hell?! Can’t decide if it’s more insulting to women or men.”This was just one of many tweets condemning Asda’s ‘Behind every great Christmas, there’s mum’ ad, in which a ‘busy mum’ almost single-handedly sorts out the decorations, presents and food, ...
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Comment & Opinion
Booker finds itself in limbo...still
Booker shares slipped by just over 2% this afternoon after the Office of Fair Trading revealed it was referring the cash & carry giant’s acquisition of loss-making Makro to the Competition Commission.