Comment & opinion – Page 512
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The Kiddi's alright
So the City rumour mill was right – sort of. Morrisons was looking to get its hands on an online retailer after all – just not Ocado, much to the disappointment of many speculative shareholders in the posh food retailer.
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Fair's fare
Last week the papers were up in arms over the news that a shopworker in Essex had been arrested after helping herself to a pile of spoiled stock thrown out by Tesco following a power cut.
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: Beware the poison Bakewell of cakes’ Lucrezia Borgia
Over two decades with the Oxo clan, Lynda Bellingham matured from MILF to glamorous granny, via that awkward menopausal stage at which female BBC newsreaders get sacked. A more sinister change is befalling Mrs Kipling.
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Careers File: Losing your job can be a chance to regroup
If you have lost or are about to lose your job, it is perfectly normal to feel hurt, angry or vulnerable. But there are a number of approaches you can take to stay in control and keep positive.
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Fudge flapjacks and former lovers
I now read all the national newspapers every day (except The Daily Star obviously, which doesn't count). Not properly read, like you do on a Sunday with a coffee and an illicit Fudge's choccy flapjack. No, skim-read on tenterhooks with that mixture...
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Third Party: Facebook Deals are going to be a big deal
Facebook’s Deals and Places offer great customer engagement opportunities. But think it through, says Steve Jarrett
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Saturday Essay: Low prices mustn’t cost workers their rights
We all have a responsibility to monitor our supply chains and guard against unethical practices, says Verner Wheelock
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Supermarkets don't run the economy, shoppers do
At the start of the year, we undertook an exercise to see whether supermarkets were exploiting the VAT hike to push through price increases. It's a well-known technique, and was definitely used by a number of retailers both when VAT rose to 17.5%...
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Second Opinion: Is it time to trust new food tech?
GM, hormones and irradiation may help ease the global food supply crisis, says Clive Black
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Tug of Laura
They used to say you really never leave the KGB. Or the CIA, for that matter. Apropos of nothing, it’s hard to think of many people who’ve jumped ship early from Tesco in recent times and gone on to genuinely bigger and better things.
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George of the retail jungle
So George Davies is said to be launching a clothing line with a Yorkshire-based supermarket chain.
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Careers File: There are loads of careers in food and horticulture, so why don’t more apply?
Since coming back from the Christmas break I've been to a couple of very interesting industry conferences one as a delegate and one where I was a guest speaker. Although they had slightly different target audiences, both had a common theme ...
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on city slickers and the stench of manure
How better to escape the rat race than by joining a fiercely competitive TV game show? "Our urge to connect with the soil has never been stronger." So began A Farmer's Life For Me, which put city types of debatable...
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Third Party: Change your diet and help save the planet
WWF’s Livewell report recommends a balanced way of eating that is sustainable and eco-friendly, says Mark Driscoll
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Buck's Fizz and killer fish
Grocer reports on the soaring price of orange juice only go to convince me that Buck's Fizz is a waste of bucks. There's a clear solution to this pressing issue. Let them drink Bolly!
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Second Opinion: Bottoms up for local control
A centralised approach to alcohol pricing won’t stop the binge drinkers, says Kevin Hawkins
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Saturday Essay: ‘Morally bankrupt’ retailers are ruining us
The multiple supermarkets are effectively being subsidised by the pigmeat industry. It can’t go on, says Richard Longthorp
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Editor's Comment: Tax breaks could promote lower-abv drinks - and advertising
The camel is a horse designed by committee. So what creature will be created by the tortuous deliberations of the European Council and the European Union to create a unified front-of-pack food health label scheme?
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Doom and boom
Spring may not yet be in the air but two of the drinks trade’s heavyweight players today kicked off seasonal offensives. Months of suitably wintry doom and gloom surrounding beer prices and the challenges faced by Britain’s biggest beer brands were punctuated first by The Grocer’s world exclusive that Stella ...
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Milestones and millstones
Ocado boss Tim Steiner was today trumpeting a “landmark year” for the online retailer. He’s not wrong. The long-awaited flotation got away despite more prophecies of doom than an Old Testament epic.