All comment & opinion articles – Page 263
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Comment & OpinionGet ready for a new era in grocery retail
If you haven’t seen the opening scene of TV series The Newsroom, then watch it now
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Comment & OpinionA tax on single-use plastic could help stop pollution of the seas
There’s a new enemy in the war on waste: single-use plastic
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Comment & OpinionBoost motivation and watch as your staff become unstoppable
Let’s take company A and company B and assume both have a good strategy, and equal resources and capabilities
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Comment & OpinionOverloaded Asda should simplify and stay focused
The big theme of Asda at its best is customer focus. Having a deep understanding of its core customers, their needs and aspirations, and then acting decisively
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Comment & OpinionTime for a new approach to food assurance
Five years on from ’Horsegate’, we are dealing with yet another meat industry scandal and no one is any safer
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Comment & OpinionLook to Lion standard for runny egg safety
Unless egg products are produced to Lion standards, they may not come from flocks vaccinated against salmonella
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Comment & OpinionAdvent gets sexy at Selfridges
The amusingly ironic Christmas jumper is dead: long live the overly opulent Advent calendar!
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Comment & OpinionKebab lovers! Meat online with doner stream
The slowly rotating doner kebab has a grimly hypnotic quality
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Comment & Opinion'Tis the season to exploit your Christmas customers
Well ‘tis the season, as they inexplicably say in America, and a lot of you will be looking to your Pat for advice
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Comment & OpinionWhy Brands Matter: an entertaining and learned look at brands
All arguments are a rollercoaster ride, moving briskly through uncertainty and lingering over that which they are more sure of
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Comment & OpinionFind alternatives to plastic, now
Action needs to be taken to ensure that the amount of plastic used, where not essential, is dramatically cut
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Comment & OpinionCheers, chancellor! Duty freeze is a step in the right direction for the drinks trade
The Wine and Spirit Trade Association estimates the move will save Britain’s drinks industry approximately £247m
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Comment & OpinionApprenticeships can help cultivate young skilled workers – but the levy is not delivering so far
Various food industry bodies have previously outlined ambitions to attract 140,000 apprentices by 2020, but that ambition currently seems a million miles away …
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Comment & OpinionData will win at Christmas
We are about to enter the peak festive retail period now – Black Friday will drop the starting flag
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Comment & OpinionConsumers want facts, not fluff, when it comes to meat
At a time when standards in in the meat industry are once again under heavy scrutiny, it’s good to remember that facts, openness and transparency are essential
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Comment & OpinionTime to trim the EU food machine
At a recent food summit in Prague, European Commission officials were curiously absent, says Professor Chris Elliott
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Comment & OpinionTesco-Booker a case of if you can't beat 'em, join 'em
But not in the old sense of selling up. It’s about forming a genuine partnership (or Faustian pact)
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Comment & OpinionThe rising loaf
Sir, The price of wheat has most definitely increased as a result of Brexit
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye: The Food Programme, Radio 4
Sheila Dillon in Catalonia, just as the region’s parliament declares independence from Spain
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Comment & OpinionFacebook Messenger as grocery channel. Like?
The rise of P2P payments offers vast opportunities for grocers, says Sebastian Redenz of iProspect UK