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Tesco calls an end to the space race
Houston calling’… ‘This is the end of the space race’. And so Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke announced that supermarket development…
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Tobacco margins: who's fooling who?
Cigarettes and tobacco have always been an essential element of a convenience offering, often accounting for 40% or more of sales…
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We're more than a Brand Match for rivals
There is no question that this has been a good summer for Sainsbury’s…
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Why did everyone discount the discounters at the IGD Convention?
This year’s IGD’s convention was the best I can remember. So why did everyone discount the discounters?
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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…
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Morrisons green ranking unfair
Sir: I was very disappointed with the ranking given to Morrisons in your ‘Green Giants?’ feature in your Green Issue
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Pension scheme laws: don't get left on the blocks
Olympians and Paralympians are not the only ones to have spent the past four years preparing for D-day…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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Inexplicable PR success at Aldi, as Crispello causes confusion
With the German balance of payments depending entirely on Aldi exports, a lot is riding on your next purchase of gesalzen gemischten Nüssen…
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Talking Shop: Embrace the loss of control
I shop at Waitrose because, darling, Harrods is just too much of a trek mid-week” was perhaps my favourite response to Waitrose’s…
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Tesco's Talking Shop blog is a one-way street
Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke isn’t hanging around to see if the first global profits drop in almost 20 years is just an anomaly.
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Decimating town centres? Or benefiting them?
Do the costs of food store development in town centres outweigh the benefits? It’s time we moved on from the dogmatic…
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Sell more than just promotions: there are other business drivers
OK: you’re running a sales organisation and you think you spend most of your time on the right priorities…
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Ella's Kitchen founder on family friendly business
Looking ahead to this year’s Parents’ Week (22 to 28 October), I am alarmed that only 7% of us believe the UK is a family-friendly country…
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Tesco will look wistfully at Aldi, not Sainsbury's
How irksome for Tesco boss Philip Clarke to update the City on its £219m decline in half-year profits on the same day Sainsbury’s revealed its 30th consecutive quarter of growth.
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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”…