All Daily Bread articles – Page 121
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Comment & OpinionFood label apathy
Today’s headlines have focused on who hasn’t signed up to the government’s new front-of-pack labelling scheme. But do shoppers really care?
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Comment & OpinionWill Tesco let toys be toys?
Tesco has announced it is going to be removing all reference to gender on its online toys pages. But can it do more to end gender-colour stereotyping in toys?
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Comment & OpinionCorking news for wine
Could a new twist-off, twist-on resealable cork shake up the wine industry, and deal a death blow to the screw-top bottle?
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Comment & OpinionOde to WH Smith
WH Smith reported another sales dip today. Its like-for-like sales were down 6% year on year for the 14 weeks to 8 June, while total sales in its high-street division fell 8%…
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Comment & OpinionSainsbury's wins big
Sainsbury’s was the big winner at last night’s Grocer Gold Awards 2013.The supermarket chain went one better than its haul of four last year - walking off with five awards on the night.As well as retaining the Online Retailer of The Year gong, it won Consumer Initiative of the Year ...
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Comment & OpinionAG Barr-Britvic merger: A different place
What was the OFT thinking when it referred the proposed merger of AG Barr and Britvic to the Competition Commission?
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Comment & OpinionAnyone for a picnic?
The sun is shining and a gentle breeze is stirring through the trees outside Grocer Towers this afternoon, putting us in the mood for a picnic.
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Comment & OpinionTesco slims down
It’s not very often that you hear a leading retailer – let alone one like Tesco – announce a policy of “active withdrawal”, but that is the phrase CEO Philip Clarke used today…
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Comment & OpinionOff their trolleys?
As The Grocer first reported on Saturday, this week sees the launch of a new app aimed at ridding the UK’s canals, parks and housing estates of the scourge of abandoned trolleys…
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Comment & OpinionBack to the future
The walls here at Grocer Towers are lined with beautiful, leather-bound volumes of The Grocer dating back to its origins in 1862…
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Comment & OpinionHumble pie and TV dinners
I had written off Tesco’s free Clubcard TV service before it even launched…
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Comment & OpinionIn search of excellence – and finding it
It’s never been a better time to be a shopper in the UK with the high quality and breadth of products available to the consumer, according to chef and businesswoman Thomasina Miers…
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Comment & OpinionA clip around the ear
Something has gone wrong with one of my local c-stores. Every day I pass this shop, which is run by a major retail chain…
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Comment & OpinionBe careful what you wish for
It’s almost a year since The Grocer reported the Department of Health was bringing in researchers to gather evidence to back up the effectiveness of its under-fire Responsibility Deal…
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Comment & OpinionGreen Shoots
Greencore’s challenging six months will not impinge the long-term prognosis, the own-label ready meals and convenience manufacturer said…
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Comment & OpinionA good day for lawyers
It emerged this weekend that Waitrose has retained the services of a QC to comb through the details…
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Comment & OpinionAsda on reinventing 'convenience'
“This industry’s full of jargon,” said Asda CEO Andy Clarke today, referring to the UK grocery business.Clarke was speaking to a room full of journalists in the retailer’s convivial albeit cosy offices above Carnaby Street, delivering the news that Asda had seen sales growth of 1.8% in Q1.Clarke’s statement was ...
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Comment & OpinionThe high-street circus continues
The Mary Portas road show continues: this week the Queen of the High Street’s Channel 4 show touched down in Margate, featuring yet more cockneys, market traders and claims of TV trickery.
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Comment & OpinionThe new top-up shop
In these straitened times, it seems people are more willing than ever to mix and match where they pick up their produce – doing a big shop in one supermarket and topping up at another.