All comment & opinion articles – Page 501
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The only thing worse than being talked about
Few people these days will believe there’s really no such thing as bad publicity. Even so, most marketers would consider a few snarky comments from internet critics a price worth paying for acres of free coverage.
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Gluten-free goes super-Novak
On Saturday The Times reported with some gusto that food intolerances were a figment of our oversensitive and pampered western imaginations.
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Clarke starts to feel the quality
In The Times today, Andy Clarke is again banging the drum on his supermarket’s new focus on quality.
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Fears over E242 in school drinks
Sir, Your feature 'Soft drinks harden up' (Focus on Soft Drinks, The Grocer, 30 April) was interesting and it was good that school drinks were touched on. However it illustrates the confusion over the phrase ' school compliance'.
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Is Iceland about to melt away?
If Malcolm Walker and co decide not to buy Iceland, it could well disappear.
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Third Party: Next gen EDI is here. Don’t get left behind
There are huge benefits to moving your electronic trading to next generation web-based platforms, says David Grosvenor
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Comment & OpinionTales of Titania: Bolly, Bristol Cream and a whole lot of vomit
Picture the scene. I'm looking my best in a client-satisfying LBD (Alexander McQueen) paid for (£1,430) by Karoline (with a K) "because we really need to keep this account darling".
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Saturday Essay: Get smart! It’s time to mobilise your brand
Fmcg brands need to take a lead from the retailers’ use of mobile marketing – and then do it better, says Dave Buckingham
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Careers File: It may be time to take a career health check
Whether you are just moving up the ladder or you are a seasoned veteran, it may be time to think about taking a career health check. Quite often, where you find yourself in your career is not as a result of good planning or natural sequential...
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Comment & OpinionIf Haldanes was sold down the river, did its chairman consider the strength of the current?
When newly formed independents started taking on former Somerfield supermarket stores back in the autumn of 2009…
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McIntyre’s got Marmite
The inexorably linked worlds of grocery and performance art crossed paths yet again this week.First as art student Nathan Wyburn wowed judges on Britain's Got Talent with a portrait of Michael McIntyre made from Marmite on toast.
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Hard cheese, Jay's jibes and Linda Lusardi
Yesterday The Grocer held its 2011 Own Label Food & Drink Awards, sponsored by PLMA and Cambridge Market Research.
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'Bomber' Harris goes to war
Aside from Tesco appointing its next chairman, Philip Clarke unveiling a new strategy for the UK’s largest grocer, Sainsbury’s posting stellar profits and Ocado bizarrely blaming the bank holidays for a slowdown in sales while everyone else was struggling to match demand, it was shaping up to be a pretty quiet news day.
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Making hay while the sun shines
Time to crack open the Champagne? Last week The Grocer reported a record Easter for independents, while Booker and P&H were among the wholesalers toasting “massive growth” in booze as well as other essentials over the long weekends.
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Ups, downs and notable omissions
Yesterday the Sunday Times published its annual Rich List. Once again, the ranking of the UK’s 1,000 individuals and families with the most cash to splash featured its fair share of figures from our sector.
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Saturday Essay: Don’t fret overly about consumer confidence
High street spend is depressed, but a short-term shift away may benefit town centres in the long run, says Jeremy Cooke
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Comment & OpinionAd of the Week: The ears and the Body have a crinkled kind of love
Just as kids grow up faster the older you get, Walkers seems to have a new ad out every other week these days. With Lionel Richie still ringing horribly in our ears, Gary Lineker is back yet again, this time frolicking in a billowy Glenn...
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Can anyone stop Wall Street adversely influencing the price of food?
Lovely weather, isn’t it? I’ve heard the sun has extended as far North as Bradford.
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Third Party: Is cannabis at work always a sackable offence?
A recent case shows it is not straightforward to dismiss an employee caught buying drugs at work, says Mark Hamilton
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Careers File: AV would not work in the boardroom
By the time you read this we should know if the nation has decided to change the way we select our members of parliament or not. However, for an event that could herald the most fundamental change to our voting system and change the way politics is...