All Daily Bread articles – Page 123
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Comment & OpinionNot a hare between them
Easter has come and gone, and with it - it would seem - protection for one particular bit of wildlife…
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Comment & OpinionA step in the right direction
There has not been much optimism on the high street of late. 2013 has seen a number of big names under threat, while boarded-up shops are becoming all too familiar a sight around the UK…
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Comment & OpinionNot so convenient
Another 50 Sainsbury’s Locals are coming to London and the South East by early 2014, bringing the total number in the region to 200, the retailer has announced…
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Comment & OpinionLucozade pushes Button
There was drama at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday, when Sebastian Vettel stole a victory over his Red Bull team mate Mark Webber…
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Comment & OpinionSize isn't everything
“We are the largest convenience retailer with a store in every postcode so we are well placed to handle the competition,” The Co-operative Group’s CEO Peter Marks declared as the society unveiled its full-year results this morning.
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Comment & OpinionOsborne raises the spirits
George Osborne is the toast of beer drinkers up and down the land today, after announcing he was scrapping the beer duty escalator and cutting 1p from the price of a pint in today’s Budget…
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Comment & OpinionAn idea with a catch
With fish firmly on shoppers’ radars, following the recent airing of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Fish Fight…
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Comment & OpinionSmelling of (Wait)roses
Gardening is proving more than a hobby for the supermarkets.Tesco has plans to open a store combining a supermarket with a Dobbies; Morrisons opened 129 temporary in-store garden centres last year; and now Waitrose is embarking on a major expansion of its gardening business.The move into gardening makes a lot ...
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Comment & OpinionLet’s rethink drink
In an emergency debate in the Commons today, Home Office minister Jeremy Browne said there was a “compelling case” for ditching government plans for minimum pricing on booze…
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No giraffing matter
Like most of us here at Grocer Towers, I am not prone to reacting in horror every time Tesco spreads its wings (if we did, we’d never get any work done).
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Cheap supermarket pop
With the news today that Asda is in talks to stop HMV’s iconic and cherished brand disappearing from the high street, questions of feasibility are not the only thoughts to spring to mind…
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Waitrose plays it smart
Waitrose has done it again. The supermarket has reported full-year sales and profits growth that its bigger rivals would kill for.
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Feeling sorry for Coca-Cola
I’ve been feeling a little bit sorry for Coca-Cola of late.
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Never mind horsemeat, we need to talk about GM
Is it time for the UK and others to embrace GM technology and save the world from a food security crisis?
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Booze blues
I rarely get on my high horse about an issue. Even as a student in the 80s, I’d sit with my mates in the pub as they got passionate about the miners’ strike or yuppies or something, while I’d be more concerned about whether my Snakebite was better with or without the Black…
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Shutting the stable door?
There’s just no pleasing some people. Philip Clarke had barely left the stage at the NFU conference in Birmingham…
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Another year
A year ago this week the government’s flagship approach to saving the high street was in full flow. It consisted of a competition on YouTube for town’s to come up with ideas to impress the self-styled Queen of Shops, Mary Portas.
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Keeping their cool
Tomorrow retailers will be bracing themselves for the latest supermarket share figures, with many worried for all sorts of reasons, not least of all the impact of the horsemeat scandal - and the numbers are not likely to be pretty, according to Kantar Worldpanel’s Ed Garner.Speaking at the British Frozen ...
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Not horsing around
Asda released its Q4 and full-year sales figures today, announcing a 0.1% increase in Q4 like-for-like sales and an uplift of 1% over the full year…
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For he's a jolly Goodfella
There’s nothing this industry likes more at times than a good sneer. And when Ranjit Singh Boparan took control of Goodfella’s Pizza in 2011 as part of his swoop on Northern Foods, certain quarters seemed to sneer in unison…