Comment & opinion – Page 485
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Walmart must box clever in the internet age
When people think of Walmart, one word usually springs to mind: growth. It is, after all, the world’s largest retailer.
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Preparation is key to empire building
The economy hasn’t stopped the mults from opening new stores - why should indies be different?
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Is food speculation a good thing?
Spring is in the air and the speculative season for soft commodities begins. It’s not just farmers, flour buyers, grain importers and bakers watching the crop reports with interest.
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Co-op banks on modernisation
The Co-operative Group, the nation’s fifth biggest supermarket, released its full-year results this morning…
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Sausage roll model
Pasty-dodger George Osborne probably expected the fallout from the budget to focus on the top rate tax cut to 45p, which gave rich people more cash, or the freeze on tax allowances for pensioners, which gave poor people less…
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I love it when a plan comes together
The ACS and the BRC haven’t exactly seen eye to eye on a great deal recently. But today’s warmly received publication of the National Planning Policy Framework has bought an air of harmony to the world of British retail…
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Limp salads and fallen idols
As illustrations of how far our sporting heroes can fall, I give you not George Best or even Dereck Chisora, but Olympic medallists Colin Jackson, Sally Gunnell and Roger Black.
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Khoo is a cookery coup for Croydon
Khoo la la! There’s a new cookery kid in town, and not just any old town, but Paris, the birthplace of haute cuisine.
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Comment & OpinionPhil Smith, Commercial director for Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant
Smith’s last role in grocery was as MD of Budgens and Londis owner Musgrave Retail Partners GB
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Be specific about what you are selling before you start to sell
I ask account managers: “Which page do you write first when putting together a customer presentation?” They answer: “Page one, of course”. And there you have it. The result is a meandering deck of fabulous information misfiring in all directions.
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There's so much more we can do to cut salt
As a country we’re very patriotic, championing national days of celebration for everything from our apples to our chips.
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Budget's biggest anomaly is the continuing 20% VAT rate
It’s not just restaurants that have been badly hit by the downturn. Even takeaways struggle to compete…
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Relaxing trading is a good idea!
“Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,” quipped PJ O’Rourke.
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Psychometric testing and pessimism: how best to deal with them
I have got through to the last round of interviews and been asked to undergo a variety of tests.
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Eskimo Ice is not Frozen
Sir, In the issue of The Grocer dated 10 March, you reported that ‘Eskimo Frozen Foods suppliers halt stock…
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A failure in Responsibility
A year after the government launched its Public Health Responsibility Deal for England, the bid to “tackle health inequalities” has so far proved inadequate.
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Play hard-nosed buyers at their own game
Many were appalled by recent stories of Waitrose imposing £60 fines for deliveries made 45 minutes late…
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Comment & OpinionWill appeal leave OFT crying over spilt milk?
One of the OFT’s longest-running cases appears finally to be coming to a conclusion…
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Plain packaging is final nail for local stores
Wouldn’t it be more sensible to assess the impact of the display ban before considering further tobacco restrictions?
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Stop the consulting and act!
Defra is consulting about its Green Food Project. This is bizarre given it has supposedly championed ‘greening’ the food system since 2001.