All comment & opinion articles – Page 2
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: meat woes, NPD, food fashion and Christmas ads
This afternoon, we celebrated over 200 standout products at The Grocer New Product & Packaging Awards. But all that doesn’t mean we’ve been resting on our laurels
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Comment & OpinionHFSS rules didn’t kill Christmas ads – they just invited fruit & veg to the party
Under new HFSS rules, retailers are proving festive magic doesn’t need sugar-coating
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Comment & OpinionOatly’s ‘100% British’ oats are home-grown but Dutch-made
Oatly’s press release announcing its ‘100% British oats’ left off one piece of crucial information: that although the oats were being sourced in the UK, they were still being processed into oat milk in the Netherlands
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Comment & OpinionHFSS regulations mean brands must collaborate on culture
Brands whose portfolios lean on indulgence, snack culture or ‘treat’ positioning now face a fundamental marketing rethink, says Emma Wills, client services director at Seen Connects
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Comment & OpinionPrinces is now the bellwether for UK business success
Princes is likely to become a real test of whether it is possible to run a newly minted, successful international food and drink business here in the UK, says Ian Wright, partner at Acuti Associates
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Comment & OpinionPay now or pay more later – the real cost of ignoring RAM
Smart retailers are viewing RAM assessments as strategic intelligence gathering that reveals exactly where their packaging investments should go, says John Redmayne, MD of ERP
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Comment & OpinionRicky Gervais tube ad stunt risks Dutch Barn becoming the brand that cried wolf
Dutch Barn is risking its reputation by pretending to have had adverts banned by authorities when no such clampdown has taken place
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Comment & OpinionChocolate-free Penguins point to a bigger issue in our food system
It’s clear that climate change, along with resource constraints and geopolitics, are converging to make food production less stable and more expensive, says Jim Mellon, executive chairman of Agronomics
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Comment & OpinionRetail workers deserve to be celebrated, not abused
The latest figures from the Retail Trust showed more than three-quarters of shop staff (77%) have experienced intimidating behaviour in the past year. How can this be allowed to continue?
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Comment & OpinionIt’s time the food industry treated climate risk as a financial issue
Media reports of political pushback against climate action are plentiful – but they don’t represent the whole story, says Andrew Coburn, CEO at Risilience
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Comment & OpinionThe cost of cheap meat and why industry insiders are breaking rank
Inside Track, as the group calls itself, is not a group of radical, leftwing firebrands. They are leading executives from a raft of major food companies who feel compelled to demand change
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Whoosh, AI, bacon and the doomed SOS
Tesco’s upgraded rapid grocery delivery service, the continued use of nitrites in processed meats, inside the collapse of SOS Wholesale and much more
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Comment & OpinionWhere now for Mondelez as Cadbury Fruitier & Nuttier is axed?
It’s super-hard leveraging the Cadbury Dairy Milk brand if the chocolate constitutes a lot less than the ‘glass and a half’ in the CDM bar
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Comment & OpinionRowdy rap trio bring the noise for KP nuts
The ‘Woodland Clan’ – an obnoxiously dressed, irritatingly loud squirrel, badger and hedgehog – spit rhymes about the couple and the KP treats they’re enjoying
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Comment & OpinionThe Shoppa Squad: cute delivery robots deliver engaging read for kids
Young children take almost instantly to Starship’s dinky grocery delivery robots. So a series of children’s books makes sense
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Comment & OpinionDiverse diets and nostalgia: Mintel’s 2026 trend predictions
Next year will see a rise in demand for diverse, fibre-forward diets, nostalgic recipes and purpose-led sensory experiences, says Alex Beckett, senior director of food & drink research at Mintel
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Comment & OpinionIgnore Big Tobacco: its decline is retail’s opportunity
Let’s be clear about who benefits from the spin that regulating tobacco is bad for retailers: not the corner shop or the supermarket but the multinational tobacco manufacturers, says Hazel Cheeseman, CEO of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
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Comment & OpinionBags for life need their fill of carrots too
Supermarkets must charge at least 10p for bags for life. But where’s the reward for shoppers?
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Comment & OpinionRana’s fresh pasta reformulation underestimates British tastes
The UK is not necessarily famed for its culinary arts – but does Rana really think shoppers won’t notice?
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Comment & OpinionWould new health taxes in the budget be such a sin?
Talk of expanding health taxes doesn’t seem quite as crazy when one considers the daunting prospect of raising £3bn to fund the NHS