All comment & opinion articles – Page 422
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The Co-op Group now has a 'formidable' management team
This week, The Co-operative Group chairman Len Wardle described the society’s new management team as “formidable”…
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Comment & OpinionWill 'New Flora' be remembered in the same way as New Coke?
Consumer goods manufacturers know they alter a recipe at their peril…
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Comment & OpinionJim Viggars - Asda's hunk of meat - honoured by charity
Congratulations to Asda’s senior meat trader Jim Viggars, named ‘employee fundraiser of the year’ by Breast Cancer UK…
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Comment & OpinionBrian May and the badgers sort out better beats with new song
Obviously stung by Bogof’s critique of his anti-badger cull song, Queen axe legend Brian May has bucked up his ideas…
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Portas-style high street revivals are pipe dreams
Cheerleaders for small shops will have found little to cheer about in the latest Grocery Retail Structure report…
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Critical Eye: The Chef's Protege
Fair play to the BBC. It might have two half-dead horses in its stable but it keeps on flogging them…
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Brands should be careful with those 'British' claims
Misleading advertising claims can incite consumer anger and result in challenges from campaigning and industry groups…
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The discounters will keep adapting
The term discount isn’t what it used to be, particularly in the grocery aisle…
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The lowest footprint'
It was interesting to read about the introduction of Joya soya yogurts in Sainsbury’s…
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Comment & OpinionAnyone for a picnic?
The sun is shining and a gentle breeze is stirring through the trees outside Grocer Towers this afternoon, putting us in the mood for a picnic.
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Comment & OpinionTesco slims down
It’s not very often that you hear a leading retailer – let alone one like Tesco – announce a policy of “active withdrawal”, but that is the phrase CEO Philip Clarke used today…
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Comment & OpinionOff their trolleys?
As The Grocer first reported on Saturday, this week sees the launch of a new app aimed at ridding the UK’s canals, parks and housing estates of the scourge of abandoned trolleys…
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Comment & OpinionBack to the future
The walls here at Grocer Towers are lined with beautiful, leather-bound volumes of The Grocer dating back to its origins in 1862…
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Comment & OpinionFerrero fights fans of Nutella... and then makes up with them
Enthusiastic, time-rich spread enthusiasts recently set up a ‘World Nutella Day’ on Facebook….
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Comment & OpinionCornish ‘perfect cream tea’ cover-up
‘Scientists’ have come up with the formula for the perfect cream tea
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Does Coke campaign signal an era of mass personalisation?
You have to be brave to remove the logo from your products on the supermarket shelf…
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Ben and Marina Fogle fail to fire up Typhoo tea ad
Typhoo’s latest ‘oo’-themed ad again stars reality TV hangaround Ben Fogle…
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Comment & OpinionAldi award haul will cause furrowed brows at supermarkets
Aldi’s record haul at the Own Label Food & Drink Awards this week will make uncomfortable reading for supermarkets…
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Making a specific proposal is key to closing a sale
From time to time, I see it as my duty to dismantle some of the old myths of selling…
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Comment & OpinionTitania on hangovers, social media and three years in PR
What have you been doing for the past three years?…