All comment & opinion articles – Page 409
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Comment & OpinionOver the border
With Tesco Ireland launching a new ‘price promise’ pledge to reimburse customers if their shop is more expensive than the offer at Aldi or Lidl, the retailer’s battle against the discounters just got bloody.
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Comment & OpinionCheesed off
Spare a thought for the good people of the village of Stilton. They’ve just been told they can’t make Stilton cheese in the place that gave it its name…
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Comment & OpinionHedging their bets
It was a dark day for the co-operative movement yesterday when bondholders led by US hedge funds Aurelius and Silverpoint took majority control of The Co-operative Bank.
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Comment & OpinionSalad daze
This morning Tesco revealed the true extent of the food waste it generated in the last six months, and, while the issue is one that has seemingly rumbled on for years, the numbers were enough to shock even this old hack.
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Comment & OpinionSmart shelves: is this the future of in-store shopping?
Are we ready for shelves that monitor our every move? It is a question we may all be forced to answer soon…
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Comment & OpinionE-commerce is dead. It's about commerce
One maverick online auction house highlighted the gulf in attitude between clicks and bricks…
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Comment & OpinionDo we want good value food or good food 'values'?
Value or ‘values’? Over the past 20 years we have heard one diatribe after another against ‘cheap food’ sold by supermarke…
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Comment & OpinionWe need a welfare scheme for cattle AND badgers
Justin King got more than he bargained for when he responded to a question at the Conservative Party conference…
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Comment & Opinion'The art of selling' hasn't died
Have you noticed that astute young sales directors and wise old ones agree that the ‘art of selling’ has died?…
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Comment & OpinionTitania looks forward to some Brazilian PR opportunities
Apparently something happened on Tuesday and the year of Brazil is upon us…
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Comment & OpinionGoat milk energy drink for sleepy felines
Do cats need more energy? Bogof’s spends its time either asleep on the microwave or maniacally clawing furniture…
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Comment & OpinionDon't give up on the CTN just yet
Even Charles Wilson may be powerless to stop the loss of trade to duty-avoided tobacco; but don’t give up on CTNs yet…
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Comment & OpinionThe holy grail
The Grocer this week caught a glimpse of food history - Cadbury’s heat-resistant chocolate…
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Comment & OpinionSelf-serving?
What’s all the fuss about self-service tills? Has anything so mundane ever been so divisive? Every few months a new survey comes out about the popularity of self-service tills. It doesn’t really matter what the numbers are, those rabid commentators on the Mail Online have a field day arguing amongst ...
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Comment & OpinionClosing the net
It’s all happening online in grocery.As The Co-operative Group and Morrisons prepare to make their long-awaited and much overdue debut online later this year, Sainsbury’s is ratcheting up the competition.Just two weeks after the supermarket revealed its online grocery sales had hit £1bn a year for the first time, Sainsbury’s ...
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Comment & OpinionAnother direction emerges in the food world
People smile at the tale of The Emperor’s New Clothes. But something like it is going on in the food world…
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Comment & OpinionMarketing for society and profit
“We were hearing that Tesco has got to put in more [to society] because people think all we do is take out.”…
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Comment & OpinionLessons in licensing for retailers and suppliers
Licensing is an intriguing industry. Everywhere you look there are successful examples of its work…
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Comment & OpinionGood leaders need common sense and emotional intelligence
There’s been much coverage recently about bullying and poor leadership in some high-profile organisations…
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Titania battles foot pain, nausea and chest-gazing at Anuga
Anuga. OMG. Karoline (with a K) told me it would be a great way to meet new clients and brush up on fmcg trends…