All comment & opinion articles – Page 371
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Comment & OpinionA convenient truth
Last year, The Co-operative Group served up a turkey of a Christmas ad. The instantly forgettable ad featured a lady leisurely walking home through frantic crowds because she’d done all her Christmas shopping at The Co-op. A panel of experts for The Grocer scored it a lowly 13 out of ...
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Comment & OpinionHow to win the multichannel commerce battle
This has been the year in which multichannel commerce penetrated mainstream grocery…
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Comment & OpinionJamie Oliver kicks off Christmas cookery TV in cracking style
And lo, the blizzard of Christmas cookery shows has begun, with Jamie’s Cracking Christmas…
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Co-op is right to focus on convenience
The Co-operative Group is correct to push on with its expansion in its core convenience operation…
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Comment & OpinionPlugging the black hole(s)
The £263m accounting scandal might, in the long run, not prove to be the most important black hole CEO Dave Lewis has to fix if he…
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Comment & OpinionThis ain’t your grandma’s sherry
I recently moved into a shared house in London – the sort of home typical of late twenty-somethings in the capital
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Comment & OpinionP&F plans a Co-op Christmas campaign; Titania stocks up on VO5
I may have mentioned Daddy’s deep loathing of “pinko shopkeepers,” and in particular The Co-op Group…
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Comment & OpinionTaking stock: even when work is busy, you need to prioritise
I’m writing this column sat in the snug part of a pub (playing horrific regional radio) in St Ives, Cornwall…
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Comment & OpinionOne Stop One Life: fascinating account of grocery's evolution
The rise of the discounters is often referred to as a recent phenomenon, but in reality it’s been going since 1964…
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Comment & OpinionReasons to be cheerful this Christmas? Win Champagne!
Reasons to be cheerful this Christmas? Tell us why and you could win a case of Champagne…
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Comment & OpinionMcVitie's baby animals show the way on Christmas TV ads
A cockapoo puppy named Rosie joined my family this year. I never cared for dogs but my wife and kids wanted one…
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Comment & Opinion2014 was a wake-up call for big four British supermarkets
The big four will be saying “good riddance” to yet another year. That is the price of taking one’s customers for granted…
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Comment & OpinionEggs is eggs in US mayonnaise legal labelling battle
It seems impossible to find a definition of mayonnaise that does not refer to eggs as a key ingredient…
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Comment & OpinionThe big supermarkets need to open up and share information
Over the past 10 years, we have witnessed an unprecedented shift in culture, both in business and society, towards opennes…
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Comment & OpinionKeep your friends close…
Today, members of the Association of Convenience Stores voted in favour of allowing the multiples to join the association
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Comment & OpinionI'm proud to help highlight the importance of wholesaling
Last week I got out the one and only medal I own, which recognises my past chairmanship of the FWD…
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Comment & OpinionGeorge of the (retail) jungle
As usual there was plenty of bluster coming from the dispatch box at today’s Autumn Statement
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Comment & OpinionEU food labelling frameworks: suppliers need clarity
From 13 December 2014, the Food Information for Consumers Regulation (EU FIC) will come into force…
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Comment & OpinionBug off: insects are infesting our mince pies now
We’ve just about accepted the presence of insects as a foodstuff for body-building protein maniacs…
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Comment & OpinionLewis ticking off his ‘to do’ list
Such was the scale of its problems and so abrupt his arrival, that some analysts had not even finished writing their “to do list”