All comment & opinion articles – Page 356
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Comment & OpinionCultivating Fear: Tom Heap explores GM's blurred lines
When does offering a helping hand stray into meddling? Or a curious question become troubled uncertainty?…
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Comment & OpinionTesco's momentum needs staff to buy into restructuring
In a big week for the supermarket giant, Ian Quinn outlines the challenges they’re still facing
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Comment & OpinionJoanna Blythman: Fatuous UK healthy eating advice is being challenged by US
Last century’s food demons – fat, cholesterol and salt – are being rehabilitated
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Comment & OpinionWet wipe storm is down to user error
The Guardian’s hyperbole is a little unfair to manufacturers
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Comment & OpinionApple Pay offers evolution rather than revolution for UK retailers
While benefits for consumers are obvious, the pros for retailers are a little more subtle
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Comment & OpinionSCA aims to conquer the world, by boat and by brand
The Swedish consumer goods company has a focus and a desire, and Team SCA embody that vision
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Comment & OpinionOpening the factory doors to cameras is no longer taboo
Greencore does well out of the Daily Mail’s feature, despite the bare hands and the hysterical online comments
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Comment & OpinionFruit snack packs should be required to be more honest
Juice brands are forced to declare ‘from concentrates’ on packaging, but fruit snacking labelling doesn’t currently follow suit, leaving consumers confused and misled
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Comment & OpinionIs PayPoint's cap reduction its Ratner moment?
I cannot convince myself of any argument to justify the outrageous provocation by PayPoint of independent retailers
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Comment & OpinionGet set for Financial Reporting Council audit scrutiny
In light of the Tesco accounting scandal, the Financial Reporting Council has announced it will focus on food retail in its upcoming audit inspections
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Comment & OpinionEating Together: Nigel Slater modest & masterful on dumplings
Nigel Slater is a master of his craft. He’s on the mild side, but where Keith Floyd bubbled over with ebullience and excitement
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Comment & OpinionKantar Worldpanel results can't tell us why growth is sluggish
The new Kantar Worldpanel results come out and the Mail declares Tesco’s barely new CEO is now ‘under more pressure’
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Comment & OpinionConvenience store sales will be boosted by lifestyle changes
”Small-scale shops are leading growth on the high street”
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Comment & OpinionShore Capital is cautiously optimistic for supermarkets
What prospects now for the UK consumer economy and the big supermarkets after a general election that surprised the pollsters?
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Comment & OpinionPlaying with the big boys: budgeting for a four-pronged attack
Playing in the same space as the big boys means you’ve got to act like the big boys
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Comment & OpinionHoneymoon over for Dave Lewis? Hold your horses
There comes a point in every reign when the whispers begin. For Dave Lewis that time has come, courtesy of the Daily Mail…
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons enjoys a moment in the sun
They say one swallow does not a summer make. Apparently it was Aristotle who said it (thanks Wikipedia), but the point remains the same
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Comment & OpinionGrocery icons are in danger of falling behind
A Rabobank report suggests that company size, once a necessity for grocery success, has become a millstone for the biggest players
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Comment & OpinionE-commerce marketplaces offer powerful profit potential
Formulating a proposition on how to tap the opportunity of digital marketplaces could be one of the more important decisions
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Comment & OpinionEU exit would be disaster for agrifood in Northern Ireland
A referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU is now firmly in the offing, and the time for careful language is over