All Price comparison surveys articles – Page 25
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News
Good news kids: sprouts are off the menu after 69% hike
The cost of the traditional Christmas dinner has soared over the past five years, The Grocer can reveal…
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Comment & Opinion
Bleak expectations for 2013
Now is the usual time for ruminations about the coming year, so I looked back at the column I wrote last December…
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Analysis & Features
Food price inflation set to hit 4% by end of 2013
Food price inflation will be firmly back on the agenda in the UK in 2013…
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Analysis & Features
Four of top five mults kept a lid on inflation in October
Fears of a return of food price inflation next year are mounting but, for now….
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News
Drop of the crops sparks food price inflation fears
The full extent of the damage wreaked by this year’s bad weather on the UK’s cereal production is becoming clearer, with new Defra figures suggesting wheat production is down 13% on last year.
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News
Consumer spending, not inflation, is grocery's biggest worry
The stalled recovery in consumer spending has become the biggest threat facing retailers and suppliers, overtaking…
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Analysis & Features
Time for a new debate on food affordability
Poor households are making drastic cuts to food budgets. But notions of which foods are affordable are often wide of the mark.
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Analysis & Features
Top five all cut prices as inflation falls to just 1.2%
The top five supermarkets slashed prices again in September despite…
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Analysis & Features
Xanthan price hikes a problem for dieters
As high maize prices continue to stoke fears about food price inflation, slimmers and those on a gluten-free diet
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Analysis & Features
The categories most at risk from soaring grain prices
As suppliers globally are hit by rocketing commodity inflation, which sectors are being hardest hit and will retail hikes result?
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Comment & Opinion
GSCOP will cut juggling for retailers and brands
Sir: Will Carter articulates well the juggling brand manufacturers must do to succeed (‘Will inflation be the death of brands?’)…
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Comment & Opinion
Will inflation be the death of brands?
The food business I’ve just joined is busy putting through its third significant price increase of the year.
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Analysis & Features
Inflation kept in check by price-cutting Morrisons
At first glance, the topline inflation figures of the GPI suggest nothing much…
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News
Sugro: pressure on indies 'desperate'
The liquidity of independent retailers is being stretched to breaking point, buying group Sugro UK has warned…
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Analysis & Features
Rise in glucose prices to have a big impact
Droughts in the US and Russia have already had a devastating effect on grains prices…
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Analysis & Features
Wheat price worries haven't hit the supermarkets... yet
All the warning signs are there. Wheat prices in London and Paris have leapt by a third in just a month…
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Analysis & Features
Price promos slash inflation at big four to a mere 1.6%
The BRC said food price inflation had crashed to a two-year low of 3.1%. Well, it’s even better than that.
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Comment & Opinion
Rainy days for food inflation
The definition of ‘summer’ may have permanently changed in Britain with yet another inclement July…
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News
A bad week for bakery: two large companies go into administration
The bakery sector was left reeling this week after two well-known chains - Peters Bakery and Bakery Products - collapsed into administration.