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Store Manager of the Year offers a lesson to us all
Perenially optimistic, Justin King might once have gloated after Sainsbury’s 1.9% sales growth bested Tesco’s static first-quarter results…
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Second Opinion: Inflation puts focus on own label
The middle ground of private label is being given a more strategic role, says Dr Clive Black
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Gold standard
Last night The Grocer crowned its annual champions, dishing out 25 awards to the industry’s finest at a black-tie bash in London’s Guildhall.
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King's royal flush
Three months ago, Sainsbury’s supremo Justin King caused a few eyebrows to be raised when he claimed the Royal Wedding was “not a sales opportunity in any meaningful way”.
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Ad of the Week: Easy does it for Air Nectar
After a decade-long drive downmarket, Sainsbury's has far more in common with EasyJet than it once did. Both share an orange livery based on the tans in The Only Way Is Essex. Both get upset if you urinate in the aisles. And now you can...
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Careers File: After a string of rejections, you need to get networking
The phone goes late on a Friday and the agency is calling to tell you the bad news: you have not got that job you really thought you had nailed at interview. What's more, this was your only remaining option and you have exhausted all other avenues....
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... inspecting the Thanet timewarp
Given the paucity of new concepts on TV, it was only a matter of time before Channel 5 wheeled out a sibling to The Hotel Inspector, and so it was this week as The Restaurant Inspector hit our screens (10pm, 6 June). Picking up where Ramsay's...
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Dingoes' balls and Jersey Bastards
Huge success for the agency this week, more or less inventing a condition which doesn't really exist - orthorexia - and getting the Mirror to cover it in detail. A whole new healthcare industry is about to be spawned, with therapists and supplements...
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Third Party: We need a culture change to cut shrinkage
Reducing retail wastage and instilling zero-tolerance attitudes to theft and fraud could save millions, says Anne Davies
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No sweat to get intimate due to Fellas
Now and then a product arrives to truly change the way we live our humdrum little lives. Like the Bin Buddy or the Nando's insta-spice grinder thing.Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourselves for Fellas, the "intimate wipe" for men,...
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Second Opinion: It IS broke, and we have to fix it
The food system is in crisis. Governments must heed Oxfam’s campaign, says Joanna Blythman
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We must all do more to encourage recycling
The Waste Review will hopefully set out practical measures – but industry-led intervention is vital too, says Simon Baldry
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Oh dear, Defra is still obsessed with plastic bags
The coalition has surprised with the scale, breadth, speed and, though some may not agree, the vision of its reforms.
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Let industry vote for the Power 100
Sir, I loved your Letter of the Week ('Lewis says the bleeding obvious', Letters, The Grocer, 28 May). It wasn't because I enjoyed 'avin a larf' at Martin Lewis heading the Power 100 or the editor's well argued response, which...
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Mutiny-proofing
Where Tesco leads, others follow. Marks & Spencer might be a very different business but the high street giant has followed Tesco’s example with a shake-up of the pay for its top bosses.
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2011: a floorspace odyssey
Arthur C Clarke always said he was an optimist. Not for him the rainy, oppressive dystopia of 1984 or Bladerunner.
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Putting down Roots
When does the little guy become the big guy? At what point does a cottage industry become a sprawling commercial empire with fingers in every metaphorical pie?
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Southern's cross to bear
There’s a piece in today’s Financial Times taking a look at how sale and leaseback deals have both helped and hindered UK businesses.
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Careers File: Professionalism pays, so why do many recruiters alienate applicants?
I've been writing this column for nearly three years now. While I can't claim to receive sackloads of email every time it's published, there are a few people out there who have become regular correspondents, sharing with me their comments on...
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Brave faces and plunging execs
Hear that thud? That was another PR agency chief exec throwing themselves off a tall building. Not Karoline (with a K) of course. She thinks she's recession-proof. As owner of our soon-to-be-dwindling band she probably is, which just makes it...