All comment & opinion articles – Page 514
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Comment & OpinionSecond Opinion: So Sir Paul knows best, does he?
The silly season is well and truly upon us. Sir Paul McCartney urges us to give up eating meat on Mondays in support of the great crusade against global warming.
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Comment & OpinionSaturday Essay: More to being green than CSR brochures
The year 2010 is the UN International Year of Biodiversity, when a concerted effort will be made to highlight the role plant and animal species play in buffering the adverse effects of climate change.
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Diverse offer, not size, is key to beating recession
A remarkable feature of the recession has been the resilience of the supermarkets (as well as many grocery retailers), says Adam Leyland
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Comment & OpinionSecond Opinion: Yes, we can eat odd-shaped veg
If the Obamas are on the case with organic, retailers should take note, says Joanna Blythman
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Our man from the DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Editor's Comment: Good store managers are entrepreneurs, not caretakers
To the losers, awards are always cruel, and never more so than when individuals are singled out. If a company misses out, a collective sense of injustice — sometimes supplemented by alcohol — can unite a team.
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Geoff Burch Talks Shop: The village store
The Briars Mini Market in Oakham, Rutland, looked like a professional and smart village store when retail guru Geoff Burch arrived. But Indy and Nim Gill seem unaware they are in an affluent area...
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Third Party: Shoppers seek reassurance of retro brands
Brands can boost the loyalty factor by playing the nostalgia card, but will retro have a long shelf life?
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on a very 80s nightmare
Watching The Supersizers Eat... the 80s (BBC2, Monday) was like opening a time capsule you buried last week and finding things were somehow much, much worse than you remembered.
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Comment & OpinionSecond Opinion: Sometimes it pays to think small
Acquisitions - particularly of smaller stores - continue to reshape grocery, says Clive Baker
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Saturday Essay: Why removing tobacco gantries is positive
Small retailers should move with the times and devote premium space to other products, says Professor Gerard Hastings
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Our man from the DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Third Party: Customer service is more important than ever
The recession is no excuse for cutting back on customer service, says Tim Ogle. After all, a smile costs nothing
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Promoting shops in the community
Sir, Over the past week independent retailers, wholesalers and suppliers have been involved in the annual National Independents’ Week. Newsagents, c-stores and rural shops have adopted or adapted the concept of the FWD My Shop Is Your Shop campaign and waved the flag of the retailer who lives over the ...
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on the mad, the bad and the unintentionally hilarious
Oh dear. The Tonight programme has finally lost any semblance of credibility and turned into Brass Eye. Unlike Chris Morris's seminal 90s mockumentary series, however, the issue the unintentionally satirical journalist Mark Jordan purported to...
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Third Party: Financial guidance without the straitjacket
A company increases its risk of volatility and reduced valuations if it refuses to give guidance, says James Amoroso
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Our man from the DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Saturday Essay: It's time to set the record straight on dairy
More credit should be given to the work done by the dairy industry to improve animal welfare, says Hayley Campbell Gibbons
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Critical Eye... on naked ambition and missing vomitariums
For some, the phrase 'all-you-can-eat' is not a sales pitch but a challenge. It's as if the proprietors are taunting them, daring the unwary to rupture an intestine through cut-price gluttony. Sometimes, however, the pledge of unlimited nosh...
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Our man from the DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing