All comment & opinion articles – Page 5
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Comment & OpinionWill retail’s Opening Shift job scheme be enough for NEETs?
Retailers believe they are stepping up in the effort to support young people into work – but they want government support to do so
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Comment & OpinionYour Voice: Huel, health consciousness and cost of living
After the CMA’s approval of Danone’s acquisition of Huel, the question now is whether Danone can grow the brand without making it less ‘Huel’
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Comment & OpinionStockpiling won’t solve the UK’s next food supply shock
The rapidly escalating El Niño climate pattern appears to have stimulated the government into thinking more seriously about resilience. Might it start listening to an industry which has been issuing warnings on the subject for some time?
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Comment & OpinionLove lambs? Let’s build a food system that protects animals and tackles climate change
Most lambs in the UK undergo routine, painful mutilations that the government’s own advisors say can no longer be justified, says Waveney Valley MP Adrian Ramsay
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Comment & OpinionWhen the weather stops playing by the rules
Drought, El Niño, Hormuz disruption and fertiliser costs are converging at once and relying on good weather elsewhere is not a strategy, says Ian Wright, partner at Acuti Associates
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Comment & OpinionGrocery’s biggest losses are hiding in plain sight
One retailer blamed its stores for stock losses, until independent checks found 64% of the problem was happening upstream all along, says Faisal Ashfaq, director of supply chain integrity at RAS
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Comment & OpinionThe high-growth category no one talks about
One in three people will experience incontinence, yet stigma – not distribution or innovation – remains the category’s biggest barrier to growth, says Jenna Duguid, senior sales director at Procter & Gamble UK
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: School food failures & Defra’s food security warning
Three in four secondary schools are serving food that’s banned, but publishing menus won’t be enough – plus this week’s picks including a stinging Defra warning on food security and the ‘chaos’ of the packaging tax system
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Comment & OpinionBecks opts for Stella in confusing Gentlemen campaign
The ad lacks the requisite wit to carry off its bizarre narrative
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Comment & OpinionTesco Kitchen sets high bar for supermarket-backed lifestyle shows
Hosts Greg James and Seema Pankhania provide a balance of loose chat and serious foodie business, but always allow their guest to shine brightest
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Comment & OpinionA price premium without fandom is just price
Own label has caught up on innovation, price and even taste, but the one thing it still can’t fast-follow is fandom
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Comment & OpinionHas severe weather pushed UK farming resilience to its limit?
While things are clearly tough for all farmers right now, some are feeling the strain worse than others
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Comment & OpinionBrewDog Liquid Visions fails to address craft beer’s haze fatigue
Liquid Visions promises to brring ‘excitement back to the beer aisle’, but offers little in the way of diversity
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Comment & OpinionBritain’s diet is at a tipping point but changing diets means changing the system too
The UK is falling well short of the Planetary Health Diet’s targets. Retailers, not shoppers, hold the keys to fixing it, says Richard Bourns, chief commercial officer at Lidl GB
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Comment & OpinionWill Scotland’s radical price cap plan see the light of day?
Scottish first minister John Swinney is a modern-day Braveheart taking on supermarket price inflation with a barmy plan to cap the price of essential goods
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Comment & OpinionThe healthy food tax hiding in the lunchbox aisle
Healthy packed lunches cost 45% more than unhealthy ones, but the gap varies widely by retailer, suggesting this is a category management problem that should be solvable, says Patrick Finlay, MD at The Category Management Company
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: Sainsbury’s KickStarter, Colman’s for sale and Gousto ready meals
The first rung on the career ladder is harder to reach than ever before. The government’s latest figures show 981,000 young people aged 16 to 24 are not in education, employment or training (NEET).
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Comment & OpinionDolmio’s puppets thirst for likes in unamusing return
The accents have been dialled back a bit, but the puppets remain instantly recognisable
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Comment & OpinionWaitrose’s regen-ag films: more ads than critical engagement
It’s beautifully shot, but more than two short episodes are required for this topic
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Comment & OpinionNo one needs to know everything for your team to be a success
Have the courage to reject ‘the intolerance of uncertainty’, says Darren A Smith of Making Business Matter