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>> time to debate possible consumer backlash against supermarketsWanted: your point of view“Supermarkets have become too big and too powerful and people are increasingly resentful of their looming presence in our...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>just three lines 100% availableAnother week, another report on retailers’ problems with on-shelf availability. This time it comes from ECR UK, the pan-industry body, which has published the first findings of its survey looking...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

suppliers are right to worry about consolidationAs everyday low prices have become a way of life for most consumers, so everyday low cost has become a fact of life for retailers and their suppliers. There’s nothing wrong with...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>> How long before c-store sector dominated by four players?A few days in Blackpool for the annual conference of the Association of Convenience Stores confirms that the independent retail scene is alive and kicking. After...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>> Consumers trust supermarkets to deliver what they want but…In this week’s issue we have tried to get inside the minds of consumers to examine whether they have lost faith in the food they are buying. Judging by the coverage...
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>>a wider view of obesity is needed...would green be right for M& S?There were plenty of mixed messages coming out of Whitehall this week over whether the government would act to ban junk food ads aimed at kids.At least...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>is manufacturing set to head overseas?When we launched The Grocer 33 survey in 1997, we found that our basket of commonly-bought items cost an average of £36.51. Today, as you will have read in our news story, shoppers can buy...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>A golden evening tarnished by food and health debateOn Wednesday night, the great and good of the grocery industry could all be found at The Dorchester Hotel in London for The Grocer Gold Awards 2004. It was a fitting...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>to boost understanding we need intelligent analysis of its causesShock number one: obese people eat less chocolate than those considered to be of ideal weight.Shock number two: 10% of people questioned for a recent survey...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>focusing on formats and range is the only way to prospernetworks need to change their tonefrom Rod Stevens, head of commercial operations, NFRNrecall date would make life easier...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>journalistic breast-beating over prices is unlikely to abateit’s time to start talking mergersfrom Rodney Hunt, managing director, The Today’s GroupFSA is rubbing salt into the wounds ...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>the compelling offer that retailers must deliverIn today’s highly deflationary grocery market, where the pricing agenda for the whole industry is increasingly being set by one EDLP retailer, it is all too easy to forget about some...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>producers need to work harder to build desirable local brandsThe release in the autumn of a study of the views of 46 senior marketing directors in the food and drink industry will yet again raise the issue of local sourcing. ...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>The human factor must not be overlooked with chip and pinprobes waste management timefrom Guy Lougher, Food and Drink Team, Wragge & Coan alternative: delist the big brandsfrom...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>consumers will remain an unpredictable forceSafeway and obesity. On the surface these two words have little in common. But, as two of the biggest issues of the year for the UK grocery market, the circumstances around them display...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

As the beef crisis continues, the magic phrase "action to restore consumer confidence" has become the cliche of the moment. The apparent good news was supermarket decisions to halve the price of beef, which cleared the shelves. Unfortunately most of...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The problems of BSE appear mainly political. But if by some divine intervention all the European governments decided that British beef is supreme, and they agreed publicly that no tests have proved a connection between mad cows and dying diners,...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Last week it was banking. This week it is 24-hour trading not to mention healthcare, insurance, estate agencies, home delivery and even concessionary departments selling tropical fish. The multiples' armoury of services to be used in the struggle...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The meat industry s nightmares continue. By raising the BSE and lamb issue this week Brussels has once again shown its ability to turn ineptitude into an art form. The massive public relations fiasco exploded across a shell-shocked industry and...
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2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

The humble baked bean the most famous of all convenience foods has been thrust back into the media spotlight this week as the battle to develop sufficient quantities of a commercially viable home grown product intensifies. For the innovative...