All comment & opinion articles – Page 81
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Comment & OpinionBBC’s Instant Genius podcast offers glimpse at menu on Mars
Elon Musk’s plan for a colony on Mars poses numerous questions for those of us without such lofty intergalactic ambitions
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Comment & OpinionWhy is Wilko struggling? Look no further than B&M’s success
In a crowded and fiercely competitive variety discounter market, more shoppers are favouring B&M. Here’s why
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Comment & OpinionHilarious, disastrous and frankly outrageous moments that shaped 2022
A year of political chaos, war, strikes, egg shortages, fevered cost price increase negotiations
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Comment & OpinionLula is good news for the Amazon and global trade – but the road ahead is bumpy
Brazil’s new government is tasked with growing the country’s exports-reliant economy whilst protecting the Amazon
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Comment & OpinionWhat is the outlook for food & drink funding in 2023?
Businesses of every size must balance their long-term objectives with short-term financial pressures this year, says Paul Doheny, UK head of corporate clients and lending, Rabobank
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Comment & OpinionWhy Lucky Saint is standing out in alcohol-free beer
The Dry January sponsor adapts quickly, sticks to its guns with one core variant, and is about to open its own pub
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Comment & OpinionSouthern Co-op’s face recognition tech is an Orwellian step too far
Retailers should learn the lesson that more unmanned tills lead to more shoplifting, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment & OpinionDiscounters define the rules of the game. Can supermarkets take control in 2023?
Retailers may have to stop obsessing about the national share numbers or at least analyse them very differently, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Comment & OpinionThe year in cartoons: The Grocer’s Christmas Tinkle 2022
These are your biggest stories of the year, told in pictures
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Comment & OpinionHow Quality Street tackled the emotional element of packaging changes
Some consumers pushed back, but updating the packaging was the right move, says Cristina Macina of Nestlé UK & Ireland
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Comment & OpinionHow to successfully shift to sustainable packaging
Communicating what’s recyclable – and what isn’t – could have a bigger impact on sustainability than brands may have thought, says Gillian Garside-Wight, consulting director at Aura
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Comment & OpinionChristmas cheer is all around us, but we must not forget about food poverty
Sadly, one thing won’t be taking a festive break: the cost of living crisis
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Comment & OpinionWhy Jack Monroe is The Grocer’s Hero of the Year
Monroe argued back in January that the system by which we measure the impact of inflation is fundamentally flawed
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Comment & OpinionAs COP15 makes real commitments, US farmers face political hurdles to halting biodiversity loss
On a trip to Louisiana with the US Sustainability Alliance, The Grocer found many farmers were acting now to preserve the biodiversity of their land
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Comment & OpinionWhy the Christmas World Cup was a flop… for food and drink at least
Sober, well-behaved fans, upsets galore, and the best final in living memory. But this World Cup will not be remembered as a marketing success
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Comment & OpinionHow UK shoppers adapted to this volatile year – and what 2023 may hold
This year we witnessed the most significant step-change in fmcg spending since the economic crisis in 2009, says Rachel White, NielsenIQ MD UK & Ireland
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Comment & OpinionWhy Cadbury’s ‘Glass and a Half in Everyone’ has cut through a year of top campaigns
It can only be a matter of time before Cadbury-a-like ads start showing up, says Jon Evans, chief customer officer at System1
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Comment & OpinionWhy we must simplify food date labelling and empower consumers
The food & drink industry needs to ensure consumers are informed, says Kimberly Carey Coffin, global technical director of supply chain assurance at LRQA
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Comment & OpinionHow the ElfBar captured the hearts, minds and lungs of the Zoomer generation
The garishly colourful little sticks, available in myriad sweet shop flavours, have gained an outlandish £314m in extra sales
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Comment & OpinionPixar inspires Peta to put shoppers off turkey
It’s been a long year of hard sells, but as it ends, Peta are trying to persuade us not to buy something