Comment & opinion – Page 487
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Demonising fags and booze I get... but cheese?
If you went to watch a Green Bay Packers game in Wisconsin late last year, you would have seen a curious public advertisement.
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Pick up the Olympic baton at your peril
What mileage can we all make out of the feelgood factor that is the Olympic Games? Very little, frankly - if any.
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Waitrose lorry fines under fire
Your article ‘Suppliers: fines from Waitrose are an abuse’ really touched a raw nerve.
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Campbell jogs the memories of sobering times
There’s none so zealous as the converted. Panorama had retired spin king and former boozehound Alastair Campbell…
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Buyers want category returns, not mates. Show them the money
If you can’t demonstrate how your product will make money for them then get out your wallet and get down on your knees.
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The tenuous link in grocery between performance and pay
I couldn’t help feel a tad ambivalent when I discovered that it’s not just bankers who’ve seen their pay packages squeezed of late.
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Get cooking with social TV
“I finally cracked it.” These were some of the last words of the late, great Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
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Happy chemicals and super-powered staples
How refreshing - an investigation into what’s good about the food we eat rather than more lazy “it’s all carcinogenic…
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Nancy fancies refurb king
Watchers of Marks & Spencer will have been intrigued to see the retailer’s former boss, Sir Stuart Rose
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Oakham? More like Oak-sham, claims Which?
The new report from Which? lifts the lid on the nefarious practice of supermarkets naming their fresh ranges things like Happy Comfort Wellness Farm rather than Cage of Doom or Fiefdom of Impoverished Serfs.
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Twitter teens trending towards the super-strength
Ever heard of displacement marketing? It’s when you make one of your products so unattractive shoppers have no choice but to trade up to something else.
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A healthy way to start your day?
Cereals have for too long embodied wider problems that make it difficult to eat healthily: marketed as healthy…
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Alcohol pricing: will health lobby hold sway?
The health lobby’s move towards having a greater say in alcohol licensing decisions has big implications for supermarkets and off-licences.
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Sell your award-winning credentials
With awards season nearly here, now’s the time to enter. It’s not just the winners that stand to benefit.
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We mustn't sideline sustainability
This June, the UN hosts the Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro. It’s a return to Rio to stock-take the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development
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Time to change roles? Follow your instincts and do your research!
I have been offered a job that looks perfect on paper, but my gut reaction is that something is wrong. Should I follow my head or my heart?
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We should fight hunger as well as obesity
Thousands of column inches and hours of TV coverage will be devoted to Sport Relief on 23-25 March, and powerful brands will play an important role in it. But support for good causes is not just the domain of big players.
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Buyers hate Pringles, but Kellogg's has spotted a lovely opportunity
When P&G announced that it was selling to Diamond in a $2.3bn paper and cash deal, it seemed ready to…
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Short-termism is a habit retailers must kick
The storm surrounding bankers’ bonuses represents the most overt example of a developing public antipathy towards capitalism.
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It's time to give food to go some get up and go
In times like these, consumers often swap healthy choices for food that’s better for their wallets.