All comment & opinion articles – Page 484
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Carbon label still relevant
In response to your recent article we wanted to clarify the role of the carbon label within our overall supply chain footprinting…
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The downside of expansion
For all the talk of retailers switching their attention away from new build supermarkets to revamps, there’s still plenty of expansion in the pipeline this year.
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It's time to give food to go some get up and go
In times like these, consumers often swap healthy choices for food that’s better for their wallets.
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Tax is key to low beer abv
Your coverage of changes in beer strengths shows there is change and innovation in the UK beer market…
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Take care: online ads are now on ASA radar
Recent events have proved conclusively that the advertising watchdog’s bite can be every bit as bad as its bark when it comes to online adverts by grocery businesses.
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Baking's answer to Ant and Dec
If baking is the new rock’n’roll (it isn’t), Mary Berry must be Mick Jagger, strutting and jutting her turkey-neck in judgement over our muffins…
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Kraft falls for an early April Fool
We have, as has every PR agency, been working on our April Fool’s stories. A rare opportunity to…
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Girls smell too in Lynx's brave new world
Lynx users live in a world where every woman is a model-in-waiting desperate to tear off her clothes. That may be a side-effect of using aerosols in a confined space.
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Broken resolutions? Try these top tips for career success instead
You know the scenario. The festive season is far behind, along with a long list of broken resolutions.
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Welfare is the issue, not the size of the dairy
As the former head of farm animal welfare for the RSPCA, I’ve seen some of the best, as well as some of the very worst, examples of welfare in industrial scale farming.
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Time's up for pack differentiation
The level of independents buying from multiples this Christmas increased by an order of magnitude, encouraged by a very evident relaxation of any quantity restrictions in many stores.
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Tesco needed eco-labels
I was disappointed with Tesco’s decision to drop its carbon footprint scheme.
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Supermarkets are unavoidable... even for the wholesalers
At first glance, very little has changed in this year’s Big 30 wholesalers list. Booker is the stand-out, cash & carries are dominant.
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Remember me to Galvani
I was touched by the article on Patrick Galvani in the excellent commemorative issue of The Grocer.
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Tesco needs to listen... and learn
Tesco’s decision to accelerate the process of change to its core chain was a big surprise to the stock market.
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You can't afford to be antisocial
The supermarket war for market share over Christmas was brutal, but the fight for consumers’ online mind-share in 2012 will also be intense, with Facebook a key battleground.
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For every useful question it answers, the carbon footprint label raises several more
OK, we were wrong about self-service supermarkets in 1947, but our doubts about the Carbon Trust label have proved well founded.
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Display ban isn't only area to exploit
Yes, it’s going to be a difficult year, but for indies there are also major opportunities to be grasped
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What do buyers need? Be concise and ask 'route one' questions
So the UK furniture salesman was always a bit embarrassed that he was selling bigger chairs designed for the American market.
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Draconian booze policy could break EU law
The World Health Organisation Regional Committee for Europe recently adopted a ‘European action plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol 2012-2020’.