All articles by Daljit Bhurji
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Comment & OpinionRetailers use social media to build Christmas ad buzz
Well 2013 looks set to be the year the Christmas commercials of some of our leading retailers get their ‘Superbowl Moment’…
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Comment & OpinionSmart shelves: is this the future of in-store shopping?
Are we ready for shelves that monitor our every move? It is a question we may all be forced to answer soon…
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Comment & OpinionTesco has head start with Hudl
Like me, many of you have no doubt been glued to Robert Peston’s BBC series on the history of British retail…
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Comment & OpinionSocial customer service in a digital age
Brent Council has been the object of derision this week after it decided to replace its receptionists with a hologram…
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Comment & OpinionThe social media baby boom
It remains undeniable that the future king has been born into a social media world…
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Comment & OpinionRespect private shopper data if you want to use it
Where is Edward Snowden? Russia, Cuba, Ecuador?…
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Does Coke campaign signal an era of mass personalisation?
You have to be brave to remove the logo from your products on the supermarket shelf…
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Who will fill the food waste knowledge gap?
Richard Benyon dared to offer the public advice on how they could reduce the colossal amount of food they waste…
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Time for supermarkets to take part in grown-up conversations
With the horsemeat scandal finally off the front pages, the whole issue of food mislabelling is back with a vengeance…
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Get set for digital health
Much of the excitement at the recent CES gadget show in Las Vegas centred on wearable technology…
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What's your social media policy?
How do I shut down Twitter?” were the exasperated words of HMV’s marketing director reported last week…
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This year's big digital trends
Deloitte estimated that £500m of UK sales came directly through tablets over Christmas….
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The retailer dilemma: integrate or disintegrate
Omnishambles was recently named word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary…
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Talking Shop: Embrace the loss of control
I shop at Waitrose because, darling, Harrods is just too much of a trek mid-week” was perhaps my favourite response to Waitrose’s…
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Talking Shop: The real value to your business of a Facebook 'like'
This week, Facebook announced it would be enhancing its security measures on brand pages to remove fraudulent ‘likes’…
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Sharpen the milk message
Scoring a retweet from a celebrity and getting your message seen by thousands of followers is often the holy grail for brands on social media.
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Start of the Mapping Wars
Location, Location, Location! The Mapping Wars have begun.
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Why brands should listen up to social media
So wire baskets are finally available at Aldi after a Facebook campaign. As surprising as the fact…
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Invest in the visual web
Why did a company with over 830 million users pay $1bn for a start-up with just 13 employees and just 30 million users?
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Get cooking with social TV
“I finally cracked it.” These were some of the last words of the late, great Apple CEO Steve Jobs.