Charlie Wright
Charlie Wright is online editor at The Grocer and should be your first port of call if you have a story you think we should be covering online. He writes Ad of the Week, edits the Bogof strand and co-writes Critical Eye with Liz Hamson.
- Comment & Opinion
Baby boom breakthrough
Britain is experiencing a baby boom the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the 1970s.
Comment & OpinionCafedirect keeps thinking small
There’s probably a good crossover between Fairtrade loyalists and people who watched Adam & Joe on Channel 4 in the 1990s…
- Bogof
Aldi gains a Lidl on rivals
An advantage of having joint MDs: one can tend the shop while the other runs around in a balaclava defacing rivals’ signage.
- Bogof
Gender roles are pie in the sky
First The Grocer revealed that blokes are now more likely to take solace in chocolate than women, thanks to the stress of the recession…
- Bogof
Cadbury case leaves Bishop purple-faced
After seeing off Nestlé, Cadbury has picked a fight with an even bigger foe - the almighty himself…
- Review
Hooray for Paul Hollywood in the Great British Bake-Off
So the finalists of the Great British Bake-Off are nearing their final hurdle: the final…
- News
Sainsbury’s boss slams Osborne’s rights-for-shares plan
Sainsbury’s boss Justin King has dismissed the Chancellor’s plan to let staff ‘swap’ workers’ rights for shares in their employers.
- Comment & Opinion
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…
- News
Sainsbury’s, Waitrose and Aldi outperform the market
Sainsbury’s has emerged as the big winner alongside Waitrose in the most recent data from Kantar Worldpanel.
- News
Clarke: ‘We must get personal with shoppers… and suppliers’
Britain’s supermarkets must “get personal” with shoppers or become irrelevant, Tesco boss Philip Clarke has warned.
- News
Walmart signals banking ambitions with Bluebird card
Asda’s American parent has made a major new move into financial services, targeting consumers outside the country’s traditional banking system.
- News
M&S targets 20,000 seasonal staff for Christmas
Marks & Spencer will take on 20,000 seasonal staff over Christmas.
- Comment & Opinion
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…
- Review
Barman, there's a fish in my pint
Food Unwrapped promised “to ask the questions food producers aren’t expecting” - maybe because they’re too banal…
- Bogof
Limp whimsy clouds Guinness' vision
Guinness ads used to be major events, but the second new film in a few weeks barely registers, like a fart in a hurricane…
- Bogof
Cone they spot the difference?
Web blunders by retailers are 10 a penny but this week’s from M&S raised a childish snicker from Bogof…
- Bogof
Secret stacker back on the shelf
The courts heard this week how shoplifter Vishal Patel was mistakenly employed as a shelf-stacker at a branch of Sainsbury’s…
- Comment & Opinion
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”…
- News
Sainsbury’s misled shoppers with Brand Match ads
Tesco has struck a blow against Sainsbury’s successful Brand Match coupon scheme.
