Stores insight and analysis – Page 8
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Comment and Opinion
Shoplifting must stop being a crime without consequences
Assaults on retail staff are on the rise, amid a huge amount of quiet anger simmering among workers…
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Range Preview
Range preview: Aldi Easter 2018
Here’s our pick of what will be hitting Aldi shelves this spring
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Analysis and Features
Supermarket Valentine's Day meal deals - who's doing what and for how much?
Here’s what the mults have on offer for Valentine’s Day
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Comment and Opinion
Has Poundland’s elf had the last laugh in the face of ASA slapdown?
The campaign featured the character in a series of sexually suggestive posts on Twitter and Facebook
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Grocer 33
Morrisons closes the gap but Asda takes another pricing win
At £57.86, Asda was just 93p cheaper than Morrisons
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Analysis and Features
Winner announced for Christmas #instorespot competition
This verdict follows a steady stream of submissions on Twitter and via email over the last few weeks
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Analysis and Features
The Christmas #instorespot competition
Have you seen a grocery retailer deck the aisles with boughs of holly or tinsel the till point?
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Analysis and Features
Five retail concepts we wish were reality
Retailers need to move with the times. So we regularly challenge design agencies to come up with solutions to the problems retailers face
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Comment and Opinion
A dazzling store with heart
On a visit to London, I took time out to visit a flagship retailer for the independent sector
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Analysis and Features
Keeping it fresh in the dairy aisles
Animal welfare concerns, healthier lifestyles and assurances about provenance are driving innovations in merchandising
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Analysis and Features
Is surge pricing worth the gamble?
Surge pricing – as used by the likes of Uber – could soon be in a store near you…
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Comment and Opinion
Asda needs to follow Tesco’s example to keep in the GCA’s good books
So why has Asda escaped, and is the Adjudicator’s decision to hold back from the ultimate deterrent justified? Yesterday’s revelation that Asda had demanded millions from suppliers to finance its Project Renewal strategy – or face having their products stripped from its shelves – made for yet ...
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Analysis and Features
Whole Foods price cuts just the beginning Amazon vows
How much should we read into early Whole Pay Check price cuts?
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Analysis and Features
First look: Nisa The Battersea General Store tour - video
Far from only the basics, Raj Bathia’s Battersea General Store stocks exotic specialities from all over the world
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Grocer 33
Asda Portlethen: Grocer 33 store of the week
“I feel that Asda is really getting back to doing what it does best”
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Comment and Opinion
Supermarkets would be crazy to even think about surge pricing
Reports about Uber-style surge pricing make for interesting Big Brother-style headlines, but the reality is way off
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Analysis and Features
A powerhouse retailer for the new Battersea
Far from only the basics, Raj Bathia’s Battersea General Store stocks exotic specialities from all over the world
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Analysis and Features
Turf Wars: the battle between Walmart and Amazon
As Amazon and Walmart battle it out for territory in the US, we analyse how they measure up on the key tactical areas
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Analysis and Features
Is it D-day for diesel?
Last week the government unveiled its long-awaited plan to tackle toxic air. What does it mean for the food industry?
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Comment and Opinion
The merits of cooperation
Competition in the grocery trade is notoriously fierce, and rightly so