Comment & opinion – Page 300
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Comment & OpinionSend the right message at the right moment
Households spent on average an estimated £800 on Christmas last year. They start thinking about Christmas early
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Comment & OpinionWholesale empowerment of women
Women are reluctant to put themselves forward. In my experience, they often wait to be asked for promotions and pay rises
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Comment & OpinionLeckford festival presents Waitrose more as lifestyle brand than supermarket
Appealing to ‘foodies and families’, the Waitrose faithful came out in numbers, boosting the supermarket’s well-heeled image
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Comment & OpinionBritish sourcing is a safer bet
Fipronil contaminated many millions of eggs over what appears to be a considerable period of time
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Comment & OpinionDairy needs to fight harder against vegan extremism
A constant stream of anti-dairy rhetoric on social media and now a ’World Plant Milk Day’ is keeping the vegan agenda firmly in the spotlight
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Comment & OpinionThe CMA should not allow retailers to be vague and dismissive about code breaches
News that supplier complaints about possible breaches by Asda have shot up in the past year, doesn’t tell the whole story, at least it took the reporting process seriously … unlike some supermarkets
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Comment & OpinionSettled grocery leaders could teach politicians a lesson
“I got us into this mess, I’ll get us out of it.” Imagine that applied to grocery…
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Comment & OpinionSupermarkets would be crazy to even think about surge pricing
Reports about Uber-style surge pricing make for interesting Big Brother-style headlines, but the reality is way off
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Comment & OpinionA core purpose allows us to unite and make decisions
It’s been a big week for Rude Health in an extraordinary double whammy of commercial achievements and brand development, says co-founder Camilla Barnard
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Comment & OpinionThe time has come to commit to UK supply for processing eggs
Research for The Grocer reveals a third of UK consumers have pledged to buy only British eggs and products made with British eggs
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Comment & OpinionThe Big Family Cooking Showdown: BBC's soufflé without eggs
This 60-minute bore-off cookery contest pits two clans against each other in a trilogy of challenges based around home-cooking
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Comment & OpinionKnow the origins of food with shorter supply chains
Sir, Is it too much to ask for food to come with provenance?
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Comment & OpinionTime for the excuses about eggs to stop
The fipronil scandal has brought ingredients into the public eye, and consumers don’t like what has been revealed
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Comment & OpinionYou are wrong, wrong, wrong on Tesco-Booker, CMA!
I am furious that, even at this second stage, the CMA has completely and utterly failed to grasp the key issues
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Comment & OpinionSalt, sugar & fat colour coding encourages food fear culture
Sir, It is insulting people’s intelligence to think they need colour codes for salt, sugar and fat on the front of pack…
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Comment & OpinionA kneejerk reaction isn't responsibility
Last week, a number of cereal manufacturers came under fire for not being transparent about how sugary their products real
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Comment & OpinionPat addresses the fipronil problem and cuts back on tabloids
Pat’s Mart puts the safety of its customers first
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Comment & OpinionThe Archaeologist: Hog gin for gin hogs
Founded by a Harley-Davidson fanatic, US brand The Archaeologist has just launched three varieties of craft gin
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Comment & OpinionWhy crunchy crisps sound so good
In the wrong context (cinema, funeral) crinkly crisp bags are a barrier to snacking
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Comment & OpinionCravendale maintains quirky streak with moonicow hunt
Cravendale has a history of memorable, quirky adverts – and now it’s delivered another