All articles by George Nott – Page 5
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NewsSampling most effective in-store campaign for boosting sales, analysis shows
Analysis finds sampling campaigns saw sales of the product increase by 95.2% on average
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NewsLast-mile business Stuart rolls out new Challenge 25 compliance tech
Stuart claims the tech achieves ‘the industry’s highest compliance rates for age-restricted deliveries’
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NewsTesco brings full-basket shopping to Whoosh
Order sizes for Whoosh deliveries had been restricted by the size and weight that could be safely carried on the back of a moped
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NewsTesco to increase bag for life price by a third
Tesco is expected to raise the price of its cheapest reusable shopping bag to 40p this week
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Comment & OpinionWill AI Take My Job? A chilling look at the future of work
How worried should we all be about our livelihoods? Very, if this episode of Dispatches is anything to go by
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Comment & OpinionArt of the Espresso Café: dancing brainwaves in Breville coffee experiment
Artist Caroline Hobkinson’s ‘immersive experience’ at Gallery Different in Fitzrovia, London worked to translate the mental awakening of a caffeine hit into visual form
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NewsCircular online grocer launches refillable, ‘return by post’ sister brand
Weekly.Shop has launched a sister brand – Refill.Shop – to make ‘reusables as easy and attractive as single-use’
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NewsTesco seeking 28,500 temps with ‘just the right attitude’ for Christmas
The supermarket said it is looking for candidates “who can bring warmth, enthusiasm and a helpful service to every shopping trip”.
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NewsNutrition brand Zoe smashes crowdfunding target
The total raised has exceeded £3m, with more than 3,300 investors participating
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NewsStarship urges clearer regulations for its pavement roaming robots
‘It would be a real missed opportunity if our sector was held back by laws from the 1800s’
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NewsTikTok Shop offers £750k to UK SMEs looking to ‘harvest demand for homegrown goods’
British businesses that focus on selling locally produced goods of all types are eligible to apply to the scheme, “whether they are a bakery, fishmonger or farmer” TikTok said
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NewsCCEP to trial UK startup’s ultra-efficient heat pump
Industrial process heat accounts for more than 20% of global CO2 emissions, HotGreen says, yet “has been historically overlooked by innovation”
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NewsTesco launches Gen AI ad creator for brands
The AI tool will ‘speed up and scale creative within a secure and compliant framework’
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InterviewsClean Food Group’s Alex Neves on ‘a new era in biotechnology’
Clean Food Group’s CEO is working to make his sustainable and scalable yeast-based oils a key ingredient in the nation’s food
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NewsTesco launches live support for blind shoppers with Be My Eyes
Be My Eyes app users will be connected directly with Tesco colleagues
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NewsUK’s fastest supermarket self-checkout revealed in slow-motion video test
Slow-motion video of a customer’s interaction with machines at eight retailers in Lancaster was captured to measure to the millisecond the latency between manually entering a product on the screen and the next screen loading
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NewsGousto scraps subscription tech spin-off Bento
Bento offered existing and aspiring subscription-model businesses a full tech platform as well as artificial intelligence modules and consultancy services
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Comment & OpinionIs Joe Wicks’ Killer protein bar really ‘full of shit’?
Nutrition experts and health advocates have spoken out to criticise the Licensed to Kill show’s complete lack of nuance, and fearmongering
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NewsTesco migrating to new marketplace platform
Mirakl’s marketplace tech is the same used by B&Q, Carrefour and Superdrug
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NewsNew Deliveroo CEO named after Doordash acquisition
One of six founders of Wolt, which was taken over by Doordash in 2022 – will take up the Deliveroo CEO role, in addition to his existing role as head of international at DoorDash