Comment & opinion – Page 388
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Comment & OpinionGrey shoppers are still teen boomers at heart
Your compiled letters from the previous week
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Grocery, politics, kitchens: What Britain's Biggest Brands say about us
Delistings, pricing disputes, tumbling prices… the claws are out in grocery these days
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Doritos dork gets a taste for heroism... from Bonnie Tyler
Need a hero? It’s hard to resist Bonnie Tyler’s 1980s hit, so Doritos has replaced its flagging mariachi band
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Comment & OpinionDoes Swallow This herald another annus horribilis for food?
Joanna Blythman’s book has received an awful lot of press, but what are the consequences for the industry?
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Comment & OpinionHow the Budget will affect our industry
Reactions from around The Grocer’s staff to the most important parts of today’s Budget
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Comment & OpinionAnt & Dec following Dalton out the Morrisons door shows shift in focus
With David Potts comes a renewed focus on product, not gimmick
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NewsStorm brewing over PG Tips pack size is milking the issue
Unlike reductions in confectionery and crisp sizes, the consumer is unlikely to ever notice the difference in teabag sizes
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Comment & OpinionSales promotions can withstand the demands of modern marketing
Simon White of Campaign Marketing illustrates why promotion marketing has remained a robust field since the ’80s
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Comment & OpinionDiscounters force SKU hierarchy reappraisal
Private-label development in the UK has been characterised for some years now by the ‘good, better, best’ hierarchy…
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Comment & OpinionTimeshift's story of how eating out went exotic
During the Second World War the strict rationing meant cooking at home became a daily struggle. The solution? Government-owned canteens, serving up puddings for two pence.
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Comment & OpinionTitania's PR nonsense prediction comes true as K hits the meat
Did I mention hybrid products in my crystal ball of PR nonsense this January?
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Comment & OpinionRecruiting staff is about hiring when you really need to
Obviously we can’t hire anyone if they’re not going to help us grow, so we’ve come up with a simple strategy for the coming year
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Comment & OpinionVouchers: don't rely on the small print
A supermarket chain CEO recently highlighted the significant amount of vouchering and promotional activity in grocery…
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Comment & OpinionAsda's star signing puts pen to paper for new contract
The post ‘went viral’, and had amassed more than 24,000 retweets as Bogof went to press
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Comment & OpinionBelow cost pricing definition is fraught with complexity
The definition of ‘below cost’ adopted amounts to intellectual incompetence at best and deliberate obfuscation at worst
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Comment & OpinionDoes the food & drink industry need to embrace the Living Wage?
Ex PepsiCo, Birds Eye and UB boss Martin Glenn was unveiled as the new chief executive of the Football Association
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Comment & OpinionMobile phone apps give brands direct route to shoppers
Last week the mobile industry descended on Barcelona to Mobile World Congress…
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Comment & OpinionMilk debate set to get raw again
The industry is worried that any problems arising from raw milk consumption might affect wider perception of milk
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Comment & OpinionOwn-label gap between healthy options consumers want and what they get is still weighty
Research suggests that work needs to be done by own-label to satiate the appetite for products low in fat, sugar and calories
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News'Lidl people' election: why it's just not a very good analogy
The media has been desperate to find the new “Mondeo Man”, but the latest grocery-themed attempt falls flat for a few reasons