Comment & opinion – Page 355
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Comment & OpinionGrowth matters, it doesn't have to be all discounter dynamic
Grocery retail delivered zero growth in 2015, according to Kantar Worldpanel
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Comment & OpinionCRM needs the human factor. Just ask Walter Iuzzolino
Smart brands are still making high-profile punts on human intuition
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Comment & OpinionThe Great Sport Relief Bake Off provides food for thought
Is it strange The Great Sport Relief Bake Off features hardly any sports stars mixing up sponge?
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Comment & OpinionHow Formula 1 is helping to speed up supply chain forecasting
Pressure on supply chains to deliver on availability, price and speed is mounting
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Comment & OpinionWe need alternatives to sugary snacks not taxes
“Sugar is cheap, tasty and addictive, which is why so many companies cram it into their products”
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Comment & OpinionAsda's back in play: watertight ways to deal with desperation
After months of silence and reorganisation, Asda is now engaging with its suppliers on 2016 plans
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Comment & OpinionTesco to buy Morrisons? It doesn't need to
Dave Lewis and Tesco don’t need Morrisons even if they can have them (which they probably can’t)
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Comment & OpinionChewing over the question of gum in the classroom
Wrigley vs. the teaching profession: has it really gum to this?
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Comment & OpinionFood waste: the final mile
If supermarkets are to ensure more surplus food makes it to the hungry, retailers have to empower local people
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Comment & OpinionFrankenstein of food: surgeon screens freaky films
Foodies, fetishists, weirdos and any combination of the three rejoice!
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Comment & OpinionGau mutra: a moo brew that isn't good for you
It’s an exotic Indian speciality, popular for its religious and/or medical properties
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Comment & OpinionMy Week… by Buy One, Get One Free (as told to Bill Tush)
Looks like I will soon be consigned to the Elysian Fields of promotional activity
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Analysis & FeaturesRetrenchment and other key themes to look out for at CAGNY 2016
The Consumer Analysts Group of New York conference kicked off yesterday
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Comment & OpinionHas Tesco hit on a new solution in the war on sugar?
The Sugarwise certification scheme is billed as sugar’s equivalent of the Fairtrade marque
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Comment & OpinionSuppliers selling directly to consumers is a disruptive tactic retailers must watch keenly
‘Disrupt yourself before someone else disrupts you.’ It’s the kind of maddening advice you read a lot in consultancy white papers on the…
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Comment & OpinionCost cutting by retailers needs to be 20% not 2%
What many retailers really need to do is dramatically change their cost position
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Comment & OpinionGood fruit and veg driven out of the country
Having worked in produce for 20 years, I have seen how the grocers have driven value out of this sector
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Comment & OpinionSainsbury's is listening to customers saying bogof to multibuys
Another week, another brave move by Sainsbury’s, with its plans to scrap all multibuys by August
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Comment & OpinionBuild a relationship with your boss and control your career
If your boss had a hand in hiring you, then you can be confident that he or she already thinks well of you
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Comment & OpinionPhilip Hampton has a tough job, but an important one: fmcg needs women
It’s ironic the government is seemingly unable to find a suitable woman to take on the role of business equality tsar