All Talking Shop articles – Page 7
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Comment & OpinionAs Aldi flourishes in the UK, what can we learn from it?
Aldi has flourished in the UK in recent years. Sales continue to grow, up 18% in the latest three months from Kantar
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Get mobile match fit in the machine learning age
You can’t just jump into the future – there has to be a solid bedrock and in the case of retail, that bedrock is mobile
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Fraud: never stop fighting it
It is essential that HMRC remains firm in dealing with applicants for BWS licences
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You must measure customers to manage them
What’s your top store? Which are your fastest growing categories? What’s the net profit on your in-store bakeries?
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Four ways M&S wins on food
In an era when growth is hard to come by, M&S Food – a quality player – has been increasing market share
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Keep investing and keep your technology options open
Changes in business rates and unfavourable currency exchange are just two of the challenges facing retailers…
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Fight this PayPoint landgrab
Steve Parfett is unimpressed with PayPoint’s new EPoS system for indies
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Make offers and promotions hyper-personal
In days gone by, getting customers into stores revolved around blunderbuss techniques like cut-price essentials
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Tricks of the coffee trade
The turnover of branded coffee chains in the UK has grown by over 500% in the last 15 years. How have they done it?
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The benefits of next-level data interrogation
Sometimes, we obsess about day-to-day performance to the detriment of bigger changes
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Crumbs from Tesco's table?
The idea that an independent would be prepared to act as an unpaid labourer for Tesco is unforgivably insulting
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Smartphones are the best way to encourage shopper engagement
Retailers and grocers need to seize the opportunity to engage with shoppers in store through mobile
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Make your category strategy stand out
Most in our industry would agree that, in theory, a good category strategy is of real value
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It's time for retailers to master mobile
In the smartphone era consumers are now almost umbilically attached to their devices
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CMA must block Tesco-Booker merger
Charles Wilson has in the past rightly asserted that the food retail market is one entity
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Use data to end shopper confusion
Within retail, digital is transforming everything from the consumer experience
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Three ways to get your food & drink products bought
Getting bought is all about making the product an easy and obvious choice
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How technology can aid consumer focus
Delivering a superlative customer experience moved to the top of the agenda in 2016
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Best-before and use-by dates create waste
I wonder how much The Grocer’s waste campaign is dealing with effect and not tackling one particular cause
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Ready to sell invisible packs?
2016 has been so dominated by major cultural shifts that it’s easy to forget that some things haven’t changed
