All comment & opinion articles – Page 539
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Comment & OpinionSecond Opinion: We must all change to survive
We lecture developing countries but is our own food system any better, asks Tim Lang.
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Editor's Comment: FSA satfats consultation sounds ominous
The ire of the industry over regulation is being kept in check, at the moment, by the more pressing concerns surrounding the economy - and survival - but this week came two reminders of the parallel universe in which Government, and its many...
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Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Third Party: Time to turn the Fairtrade system up a notch
Why not have a scheme that certifies end products and recognises producers' investment, asks Dr R Sri Ram
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Cadbury set to curl it like Beckham
You may have heard of the butterfly effect - the theory that when a bug flaps its wings in, say, Brazil, it sets off a causal chain that results in a hurricane on the other side of the globe. In grocery terms: when a knight of the realm...
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Editor's Comment: Significant inflationary pressures remain in the system
Inflation. It's the last thing anyone needs right now. So multiple grocery retailers have been doing their best to downplay it, while bombarding the market with promotions. Yet, while the falling price of oil and plentiful harvests have...
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Third Party: Deny the cyber criminals their lifeblood
The expected surge in fraud as recession deepens is a threat to retailers but also offers opportunities, says Tom Ilube
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on dodgy Florentine and raw emotion
I was worried the language in Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA (9pm, Channel 4, 6 February) would be toned down after the apoplexy in the press following Gordon's Great British Nightmare, in which 312 swear words were used in 103 minutes. The...
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Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & OpinionSaturday Essay: The food importer's lot is not a happy one
However much costs are cut or production improved, no-one can fund currency losses from margins, says Henry Amar
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Third Party: Small can be beautiful when done carefully
Reducing the size of a product offers suppliers and retailers advantages - but there can be pitfalls, warns Dave Timothy
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Editor's Comment: Grocery companies are no longer immune to the downturn
New bosses always paint it black. Whether tacitly, or outspokenly, “it’s going to take time to sort out the mess I inherited”, has been inferred in the utterances of countless new chief executives, supply chain directors or supermarket managers,...
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Critical Eye... watching the Watchdog
I don’t usually get home in time to watch Watchdog but caught the end of this week’s programme (7.30, BBC1, 2 February) just as it launched into an ‘investigation’ into supermarkets. Not that it was much of an investigation. In a move as...
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Comment & OpinionSecond Opinion: Nanny’s no good for our diets
Regulatory ideals are unattainable and breed distrust in government, says Kevin Hawkins
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Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Comment & OpinionSaturday Essay: Can free market trade ever be fair trade?
Long-term trading relationships with buyers are needed to protect farmers in the developing world, says Guy Watson
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Saturday Essay: CSR obligations must not take a back seat
Instead of choosing between ethics and cost-cutting, it's vital we find ways to combine the two, says Nick Vermont
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Guest Editor's Comment: Celebrity chefs risk losing touch
II can’t help feeling the latest series of Channel 4’s Great British Food Fight, while entertaining on one level, is slightly past its sell-by date. Hugh may have changed his tune a bit on Freedom Food, but still wants us to pay a pound more for...
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Our man from DRIP
Don Pumsey at the Department of Retail Infrastructure and Pricing
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Third Party: To update packaging, renovate to innovate
If you want to win over shoppers, get rid of fancy and quirky packaging and go back to the basics, says Gillian Wight