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Comment & OpinionWhose frog has the fresher legs?
Waitrose is taking on Tesco over price these days - but can Tesco boast of the fresher salad?…
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Retailers: time to make sure you've got a plan P
Public health interest is growing in endocrine disrupters: chemicals that alter hormones and body functions…
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Finding young people a future in food
One in seven of those working in the UK today is employed by the food and grocery industry - a total of 3.6 million people.
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We need more of a buzz about bee crisis
Since we rely on bees to pollinate 90% of our food crops, you’d think we’d treat them with the utmost respect…
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Learning from the mults can help indies stay independent
I found the article in The Grocer (‘Fair of fascia’, 18 August) very interesting as it described the requirement for convenience stores…
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Cancer study should give pause for thought
This week, we broke a story on thegrocer.co.uk about a highly controversial new French…
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Write to your MPs over extension of Sunday trading hours
I write with regard to the article concerning Morrisons’ plans for a push into convenience and an extension of permissible Sunday…
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Lab rats and peacocks in a tale of two twitters
Yesterday Daily Bread flagged up the French study into the effects on health of the Monsanto herbicide Roundup and a GM strain of maize resistant to it…
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Coy Darcy keeps us waiting
Costcutter retailers and suppliers descended on Birmingham yesterday for the symbol group’s annual exhibition and gala dinner.
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Doh! A messy exit at Reckitt
It’s unfortunate for the maker of Harpic and Cillit Bang to leave an unsightly mess in full view of the public. Then again, perhaps Reckitt Benckiser is of the opinion that “it’s better out than in”.
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Why relaxed Sunday trading will hurt indies
The London Olympics and Paralympics have led to new pressures on the UK’s retail and distribution infrastructure…
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GSCOP will cut juggling for retailers and brands
Sir: Will Carter articulates well the juggling brand manufacturers must do to succeed (‘Will inflation be the death of brands?’)…
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Don't fret about your bigger role: learn to work with the team
Many of the people I coach often look for help as they are about to embark on a new role…
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Wine stroke panic, coffee conspiracy and PR effectiveness
The announcement that three glasses of wine a day increases the risk of a stroke is the kind of shock…
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We need consistent underage penalties, please
A story in the Caernarfon & Denbigh Herald at the beginning of last month set me thinking about consistency…
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Blood, sweat and loyalty points
The loyalty market is a very different place to that in which we launched Nectar, back in 2002.
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It's dangerous to assume prices always rise with bad weather
Is price inflation back? That is the $64bn question taxing retail and supply executives in the UK (and beyond) right now.
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Is online shopping penalising the poor?
We were struck by a comment from Morrisons CEO Dalton Philips at the group’s meeting for analysts…
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Prices margin for error
Waitrose’s sales growth has been the envy of other food retailers for some time - but its profitability, this time last year, was rather less so…
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Murray gets the loot in, not the Gluten
So poignant Scot Andy Murray is finally proud Brit Andy Murray. And nobody is happier for him than Daily Bread.Murray’s spectacular triumph in Monday’s rain-delayed final of the US Open completes a redemptive arc that saw his traumatic loss in the Wimbledon final followed by a cathartic win on the ...