All comment & opinion articles – Page 453
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In my day, lad...
We all know the past looks rosier the further you get from it. Sir Ken Morrison last week used the AGM of the supermarket he founded to cast an admiring eye back to the good old days when Morrisons didn’t concern itself with fads like convenience retailing and the internet…
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Start of the Mapping Wars
Location, Location, Location! The Mapping Wars have begun.
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How Richard Nixon made us fat
Admit it, you thought The Men Who Made Us Fat was going to be a hatchet job too.
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Comment & OpinionNot just milk prices falling fast
Trewithen Dairy this week persuaded Professor Splash - a mental American whose primary talent is jumping off things into other things…
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Fail to innovate and you're sure to fail
Clinton Cards is the latest in a long list of brands that have succumbed to the current austere trading conditions on the high street.
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Sainsbury's understands its customers
In the wake of aggressive supermarket price wars and low consumer confidence, Sainsbury’s appears to have understood…
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Problems with availability are getting worse
The annual Grocer 33 competition is best known as a price comparison tool. As we unveil this…
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A big appetite for mid-size businesses
Corporate activity and M&A deals in the food sector, particularly in the mid-size range, are at appetising levels.
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Marketing jargon, Spots v Stripes and Aldi's ranging plan
Some bits of PR and marketing jargon are meaningless, ‘ROI’ and ‘client focused agency’, for example. Others are redolent with power.
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Selling is all about what the buyer wants, not what you want
In the UK we hate salespeople, but lawyers have always had our unconditional respect. Bizarrely, in the US it’s the other way round.
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Reason to be cheerful?
For a company that put so much weight behind the Diamond Jubilee, Sainsbury’s was remarkably coy about its performance over the four-day weekend in a conference call with press this morning following its first-quarter results.As well as sponsoring the Jubilee Pageant, Diamond Jubilee Beacons and Jubilee Woods Project, Sainsbury’s even ...
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Sainsbury's opens a new chapter
Sainsbury’s added another string to its entertainment bow today with a swoop for Anobii, an online vendor that lets users buy and review books from a library of 60,000 titles…
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The second most stressful job in england
As Roy Hodgson will know, you don’t get much time these days to get things right when you’re at the top. For Tesco boss Philip Clarke the scrutiny is perhaps even more severe…
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'Special' offers not so special
Wouldn’t it be great if you could rely on special offers to be just that?
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You can fake confidence... but don't get complacent
Too often, I find I lack confidence and I can’t help noticing that the confident types seem to get promotion…
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Securing skills for manufacturing
The government’s See Inside Manufacturing initiative is back again this month, and it’s promising to be a treat for all…
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Suppliers CAN tweak the tiger's tail
The Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP) is supposedly so toothless that suppliers see it as commercial suicide…
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Is the economy shaky or flaky?
In two weeks, world governments will meet in Rio de Janeiro to discuss sustainable development…
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Jubilee war stories
Having been forced outside by the drivel that was It’s A Royal Cock-Up on the BBC, I am able to swap Jubilee war stories…
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Tesco has become too profitable not to put profit first
This week, I interviewed Sir Terry Leahy about his new book