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Comment & OpinionTen years on, UK inaction on processed meat is costing lives
France and the EC have taken steps to protect consumers, says Professor Chris Elliott. The UK is out of kilter with them and scientific consensus
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: a world foods special and the Waitrose social media storm
Waitrose’s PR nightmare, inside Roberts Bakery’s administration, Unilever spin-off delay and much more
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Comment & OpinionNot all convenience stores are innocent victims of retail crime
A police crackdown on organised crime has alarmingly identified that more than 100 convenience stores have been buying items stolen from supermarkets and reselling them at discounted prices
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Comment & OpinionAsahi Super Dry burnishes super cool image
A Japanese couple buy a bottle of Asahi at a convenience store, telling the cashier they ‘seek what is unique’
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Comment & OpinionWill AI Take My Job? A chilling look at the future of work
How worried should we all be about our livelihoods? Very, if this episode of Dispatches is anything to go by
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Comment & OpinionLessons from a startup founder – and a buyer who rejected him
Rejection is a part of business; there are lessons to be learnt every time it happens, says Joe Woolf, founder of Tasty Mates & head of retail at HomeCooks
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Comment & OpinionPlant-based progress: why the UK must double down on innovation
Unlocking UK growth depends on making alternative proteins affordable, delicious and widely accessible, says Linus Pardoe, senior UK policy manager at The Good Food Institute Europe
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Comment & Opinion‘Get out of the way’: why industry won the EPR power play
Not everyone is happy, but minds are now increasingly focused on how EPR can actually provide the £10bn-plus investment to revive flatlining council recycling rates and lead to the circular economy it was all supposed to be about in the first place
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Comment & OpinionCollaborative forecasting is a myth. Retailers must own the numbers
Collaboration in forecasting sounds appealing but it’s just a gentle name for trying to get the retailer to do their job properly, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & OpinionShoppers and staff are key for in-store retail tech success
For retailers to fully capitalise on investments and ensure long-term success, they must prioritise onboarding shoppers and store associates, says Toby Pickard, retail futures senior partner at IGD
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Comment & OpinionNestlé’s new CEO is moving fast to drive its recovery
New CEO Philipp Navratil said at the Q3 results that ‘the world is changing and Nestlé needs to change faster’, says Warren Ackerman, head of European consumer staples research at Barclays
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Comment & OpinionHow Waitrose’s good intentions became a PR disaster
Waitrose this morning awoke to a flurry of headlines decrying its decision to ‘sack’ Tom Boyd, 28, who had been stacking shelves at the retailer for four years
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Comment & OpinionWhy nostalgia isn’t enough to save Pizza Hut’s dine-in dream
It’s been a challenging year for the whole Pizza Hut brand, which has struggled having not ‘picked a lane’
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Comment & OpinionOne-off or not, B&M’s accounting error could stall return to growth
Investors are exasperated and analysts are questioning B&M’s financial controls
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Comment & OpinionYou can’t spreadsheet a sandwich: lessons from the Kraft Heinz split
Kraft Heinz’s split shows the limits of cost-cutting. In a market where private label is surging, emotion – not efficiency – keeps grocery brands valuable, says Aaron Shields, executive director of experience strategy at Landor
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Comment & OpinionJoe Wicks’ UPF crusade: well-meaning but woefully misguided
Joe Wicks and Dr Chris van Tulleken are spreading confusion and fear, rather than helping consumers make informed choices, says Mike Coppen-Gardner of SPQR
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Comment & OpinionCan supermarkets help menopause become ‘the new vegan’?
Women in menopause are one of the most powerful consumer spenders – and are the primary decision-makers of household spend, says Heather Jackson, CEO and co-founder of GenM
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: the fourth tier frontier and Roberts Bakery’s saviour
It’s also cheering to be able to report that Roberts Bakery has been saved
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Comment & OpinionCo-op faces many questions over its commercial and logistics restructure
Offering suppliers a single point of contact in which it can simultaneously close deals with 8,000 outlets across multiple routes to market is very attractive, but the plans have got off to a shaky start
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Comment & Opinion‘No.1 and only’ Chesney Hawkes makes some noise for Waitrose
The evergreen Hawkes lip-syncs along to a remix of his 1991 hit The One and Only because… well, Waitrose has an own label called No.1