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Analysis & FeaturesPromo Dynamic: It's spring - and time to clean up
No-one can accuse the UK's grocery retailers of being slow to cash in on a cliché - and spring cleaning is no exception
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Promo Dynamic: Sweet deals for Easter egg hunters
As the saying goes, the early bird catches the worm - and shoppers already on the Easter egg hunt will be pleased to see that supermarkets have almost doubled the number of confectionery deals since last week, from 84 to 149.
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Promo Dynamic: Frozen ready meals climb the rankings
The total number of featured space promotions has remained high this week, though it fell back slightly to 1,655 as Christmas trading faded to a distant memory
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Promo Dynamic: Wine defies detox to stay in top spot
Retailers hope consumers are giving the usual January detox a miss this year, as wine extends its lead at the top of the Promo Dynamic table
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Promo Dynamic: Retailers get set for tough new year
All change in the Promo Dynamic top 50 as retailers shift their promotional tactics after the excesses of Christmas
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Promo Dynamic: Booze makes up a quarter of all deals
Wine reclaimed its place at the top of the Promo Dynamic table this week, as alcoholic drinks accounted for three of the top four categories
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Promo Dynamic: Biscuits feel the festive price crunch
The Christmas buildup of promotional activity continues, with the number of promotions in featured space topping 1,600 for the first time since Promo Dynamic began
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Promo Dynamic: Spirits offers more than double to 108
This week’s promotional activity remained at a similar level to last week’s, finds James Ball, with a massive 1,546 lines on offer
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Promo Dynamic: Trick or treat knocks wine off top spot
Wine has been knocked off the top spot for the first time since The Grocer first published its promotions league table in September. Its conqueror was confectionery, which had over 165 lines on promotion in featured space as Hallowe’en deals reached...
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Promo Dynamic: A good week for fans of canned food
Promotional activity remained as fierce as ever this week, with more than 1,300 lines on offer in featured space in the top 50 categories alone. But some retailers were promoting far more than others.
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Promo Dynamic: Sainsbury’s dominates in price deals
The price war may be hotting up, but it doesn’t seem to have reached as far as supermarkets’ prime promotional spots, where activity was subdued at the weekend
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Work-life balance is the top career goal for generation Y
Work-life balance used to be a minority interest - important to recent graduates and working mothers with children, but scorned by most employees. Until recently, the workplace was dominated by baby boomers - the generation born between the...
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Let's get Sunny D right, says Fredj
Few brands have had as much opprobrium heaped on them as the former Sunny Delight. Who can forget the hysteria over the toddler who turned orange when she drank too much of the stuff? Things haven't got off to a shining start for Sunny...
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Blueheath: is it waving or drowning?
The devil was in the detail of online wholesaler Blueheath's recent annual results statement. Geoff Igharo and Julian Hunt report Casual readers of the upbeat annual results statement issued a couple of weeks ago by online wholesaler...
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The renaissance man
A year into the role, Guy Farrant is living his dream as director of food at Marks & Spencer.
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What do these fourhave in common ?
What do furniture and cars have to do with efficient consumer response? Good question and one that the most lateral-thinking ECR Europe conference to date gamely attempted to answer in Stockholm last week. Smoke machines, flashy graphics...
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Welcome to the blogosphere
A couple of years ago hardly anybody seemed to know what a blog was. Now they are rife: the internet is awash with the personal opinions, sometimes controversial and often mundane, of bloggers. The interactive nature of the online medium means...
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friends or foes?
When 10 new member states joined the European Union in May 2004, it was hailed as a golden opportunity for UK businesses. Jim Dougal, head of the European Commission in the UK, said at the time that the creation of a single market of 455 million...
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the golden state of things to come
Scattered around the Californian state capital Sacramento are photographs of governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - not in typical electoral pose, but sitting astride a Harley Davidson, leather clad and complete with dark sunglasses. For some...
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Reports
Grocer Salary Survey - Analysis
Downloadable version of the Salary Survey that featured in the 18th Jauary 2003 Issue of The Grocer