All comment & opinion articles – Page 494
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Comment & OpinionApril stools at Farmfoods
Shopper Sharlene Denham last week wasted hours on the phone at the North Lynn Farmfoods answering increasingly odd questions supposedly to win cash. Neither Denham nor the store manager suspected a hoax, even when she was told to use him…
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Saturday Essay: Thank God parties think alike on green issues
Conference season reveals an environmental consensus. But does the green revolution start here, asks Ian Hogg
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Comment & OpinionAcid Test: Peperami Pizzas
In its first venture outside the meat snack market, Unilever predicted the microwaveable Peperami Pizza range would rack up £30m in sales in its first three years.
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Comment & OpinionLucky dip or double dip
For politicos, pundits and number crunchers, yesterday’s Comprehensive Spending Review was a dream.
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Comment & OpinionCharity, clarity and a flamingo-tinged ringmaster
So the trophies are safely atop fireplaces, the tuxedos at the dry cleaners and the hangovers (mostly) subsided.
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Comment & OpinionMarmite's brave new world
Love it or hate it, you can’t ignore it. Marmite seems to be everywhere at the moment.
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Comment & OpinionCalling International Rescue
Few of us could fail to be moved by the heart-warming pictures of the 33 Chilean miners as they were reunited with their loved ones after 69 days trapped underground.
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Second Opinion: Time to end the GM experiment
Wasting money on unpopular and pointless scientific exercises must stop, says Joanna Blythman
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Third Party: We must do more to tackle ecological debt
If the rate of global consumption matched the UK’s, the world would be using up 2.75 planets a year, says Mark Driscoll
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Careers File: Trust is key to riding out the recession
It won't just be public sector workers crossing everything when the government announces its long-awaited Comprehensive Spending Review.
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Small brains, healthy boobs and self-sacrifice
Sorry charity sweeties, you can keep your pink ribbons and limping round Hyde Park semi-nude at two in the morning in the driving rain. The cure for breast cancer, it transpires in the (Lancet-lite) Daily Mail, is not the self-sacrifice of...
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Saturday Essay: Women on board make a business stronger
If you want to deliver great customer service, ensure your HR policies reflect the needs of women, says Gwyn Burr
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Always leave them wanting more...
Can you predict the future? With the theme emblazoned in big fluorescent yellow capital letters across an impressive set, delegates at this week's IGD convention paid hundreds of pounds to get a little taster, from a stellar cast of speakers.
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Comment & OpinionAnd for my next trick...
Taking the industry by surprise is something Charles Wilson, chief executive of cash & carry giant Booker, has got rather good at.
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Comment & OpinionRunning to stand still
Two sets of data arrived in The Grocer’s inbox this afternoon.
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The best comeback since Lazarus
Never go back, they say. That truism is given the lie by the triumphant homecoming of Iceland founder Malcolm Walker.
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Stores must have recycling points
Sir, I would like to respond to your coverage on the CPRE's call for the return of a bottle deposit scheme in your Green Issue (Analysis, 25 September), as my company provides recycling machines for bottles, cans and plastic containers.
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on pinstripe offal and sawdust sausages
The unreality grind goes on, The Apprentice (BBC1, Wednesday 9pm) back piping more human offal into pinstripe casings misleadingly marked 'dynamo'. The series six opener took that sausage-factory approach to its logical conclusion,...
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Fresh & Easy could be Sir Terry's farewell gift
It's been a bad week for the Germans. As we report, Metro-owned wholesaler Makro posted a £45m loss in the same week that discounter Aldi suffered a £147m reversal in fortunes an Icarus-like fall from grace.