All comment & opinion articles – Page 440
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In grocery, time is like money. In short supply
This has been a momentous week in terms of retail people news, with Morrisons, Tesco and M&S all announcing big changes.
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: Waitrose advertises that it isn't... advertising
Like the first spots of rain on a winter’s night, the big Christmas ads have started to drop.
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Trading Standards and police are going too far with diktats
Recent weeks have seen increasing evidence of authorities making decisions by decree that should be legislated for….
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Dig deep: are you fulfilling your true potential?
If we asked ourselves honestly, do we really enjoy what we do at work?…
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The plain cigarette pack debate... and the Jody Scheckter row
Sir: MSR Newsgroup CEO Mick Garton states that standardised tobacco packaging could put him out of business….
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Bottled water brands: the only way is ethics... but whose?
My father used to say that if something looks too good to be true, it usually is….
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Bovine TB: grocery must back government over badger cull
The recent decision to postpone plans for a pilot cull of badgers was very difficult but also pragmatic and responsible….
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Waitrose and Aldi are set for a Merry Christmas
With the shelves now full of seasonal product, how will the supermarkets do over Christmas 2012?…
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Titania on an outbreak of dairy nationalism
Nationality seems to be a touchy subject in the dairy world at the moment.
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Booker finds itself in limbo...still
Booker shares slipped by just over 2% this afternoon after the Office of Fair Trading revealed it was referring the cash & carry giant’s acquisition of loss-making Makro to the Competition Commission.
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Mum's the word at Asda
“Just watched the @Asda Xmas advert - ffs, what the hell?! Can’t decide if it’s more insulting to women or men.”This was just one of many tweets condemning Asda’s ‘Behind every great Christmas, there’s mum’ ad, in which a ‘busy mum’ almost single-handedly sorts out the decorations, presents and food, ...
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Scheckter fury at 'unreasonable' Portman Group
Sir: I am disappointed but not necessarily surprised at the Portman Group’s actions….
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All Greek to me
How Greek should Greek yoghurt be? That is the question facing the High Court in London, as Total Greek Yoghurt maker Fage and US yoghurt heavyweight Chobani fight over who has the right to call their yoghurt “Greek”…
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Comment & OpinionAd of the week: Jesse Metcalfe turns up the heat under Rooster Potatoes
Albert Bartlett made a virtue of a slightly strange celebrity tie-up when Marcia Cross popped across the Atlantic to ‘unwittingly’ advertise its Rooster potatoes back in 2009.
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Comment & OpinionA new way to get stuffed with Heston Blumenthal
Heston Blumenthal rarely lets us down when it comes to ‘eccentric’ food…
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How Britain's Hidden Hungry are hard to find... in every sense
The late time slot will have put many people off watching Britain’s Hidden Hungry, which is a real shame….
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Racking up trouble on the safety front
In September, a food refrigeration firm was fined £140,000 for failing to protect a workers from a fatal accident….
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Doubt, dither and delay by the government
Winston Churchill once famously said of Stanley Baldwin’s government: “So they go on, in strange paradox.”…