All Leader articles
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Comment & OpinionSupermarkets have serious work to do on helping blind shoppers
Shakti was conducting a mystery shop at Asda’s Newton Abbot branch. Her treatment was disgraceful
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Comment & OpinionNew nutrient profiling model is at odds with scientific sentiment
Slavishly focusing on further reductions in fat, salt and sugar is at odds with the latest scientific consensus, consumer sentiment and retailer actions
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons is the most intriguing symbol operator right now
On top of the 1,000 company-owned, company-operated Morrisons Daily stores (or ‘co-cos’ as CEO Rami Baitiéh refers to them), there are now 700 ‘fo-fos’, or franchise owned and franchise operated stores
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Comment & OpinionWithout question the new Defra team is on a mission
Emma Reynolds, Angela Eagle and Paul Kissack are breathing fresh life into Defra
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Comment & OpinionAsda has come out swinging on price, but is anyone listening?
The winners this Christmas have realised that price isn’t everything
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Comment & OpinionOur final issue of the year is a cracker!
The headline has to be the healthy switches consumers have made, with vape sales falling dramatically, while the biggest category volume increase was seen in smoking cessation products
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Comment & OpinionEndless delays, moving goalposts: HFSS policy farce deepens
Having presided over this farcical mismanagement of the HFSS advertising restrictions, the government looks set to cause more chaos
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Comment & OpinionA Goldilocks budget? Instead of porridge this was thin gruel
On the business rates side, instead of a trade-off between big stores and small stores, somehow both have lost out
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Comment & OpinionThe Budget is a disaster and it hasn’t even happened yet
With days to go until the hopelessly late Budget, the food and drink industry will be holding its breath
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Comment & OpinionWhat a trip soft drinks brand Trip is on, tapping the mindfulness zeitgeist
Trip is reaping the reward through insight, slick marketing and supply chain execution and strong celebrity backing
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Comment & OpinionHFSS rules didn’t kill Christmas ads – they just invited fruit & veg to the party
Under new HFSS rules, retailers are proving festive magic doesn’t need sugar-coating
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Comment & OpinionWhere now for Mondelez as Cadbury Fruitier & Nuttier is axed?
It’s super-hard leveraging the Cadbury Dairy Milk brand if the chocolate constitutes a lot less than the ‘glass and a half’ in the CDM bar
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Comment & OpinionNot all convenience stores are innocent victims of retail crime
A police crackdown on organised crime has alarmingly identified that more than 100 convenience stores have been buying items stolen from supermarkets and reselling them at discounted prices
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Comment & OpinionCo-op faces many questions over its commercial and logistics restructure
Offering suppliers a single point of contact in which it can simultaneously close deals with 8,000 outlets across multiple routes to market is very attractive, but the plans have got off to a shaky start
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Comment & Opinion‘Erratic’ buyers are on increasingly thin ice over forecasting
Failure to forecast accurately and fairly is a serious issue if taken to the extreme
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: The best of Green Week
We’ve pulled together the diverse components of our first-ever Green Week into a compelling read
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Analysis & FeaturesCo-op cyberattack hurt but its response tells a better story
The Co-op is also back on the front foot. While store openings slowed, 30 will come onstream in the second half
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Comment & OpinionUrban Legend’s demise: self-fulfilling prophecy or cautionary tale?
What went wrong for Urban Legend? The name? The proposition? The science?
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Comment & OpinionWinning M&S distribution deal from Booker is a real feather in Blakemore’s cap
For many years, Blakemore has been one of the best and most efficient distribution businesses in the UK
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Comment & OpinionFarmers say GCA not fit for purpose, but how would they know?
Farmers and processors have not benefited from the Adjudicator’s oversight