All The Grocer articles in Blogs – Page 11
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Comment & OpinionHappy calories = Unhappy Coke
Coca-Cola may be feeling a little hard done by today. Its TV ad, ‘Be OK’, which launched with some fanfare in March, was today banned by the ASA for misleading consumers.
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Comment & OpinionClever places
Kantar Worldpanel’s latest snapshot of the supermarket wars came out today – and there was, as ever, plenty to pick over…
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Comment & OpinionA right Royal trade show
Yesterday afternoon, I paid a visit to the Coronation Festival in the gardens of Buckingham Palace - and I wasn’t royally impressed.
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Comment & OpinionPutting the pen to the sword
What a difference a few months make. In March, The Grocer, as well as just about every other business title, was raising serious questions about Morrisons’ strategy…
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Comment & OpinionTobacco bites Booker
This morning, Booker revealed its tobacco sales in the first quarter had been hit by the illicit trade.In the 12 weeks to 21 June like-for-like tobacco sales in Booker depots fell 2.5%, it said. In its newly acquired Makro business tobacco sales fared even worse – down a whopping 20.8% ...
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Comment & OpinionNo quick fixes
It is 18 months since the self-styled Queen of the High Street dramatically took to a stage in Westminster to deliver her plans to save Britain’s shops.Today came the much-delayed government verdict on the often rollercoaster ride that’s followed since then.Love them or hate them, the most tangible result of ...
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Comment & OpinionA2 Milk serves a bitter pill
A2 Milk has taken a new tack with its marketing and positioning in the UK - somewhat to the discomfort of Müller Wiseman, which owns a 50% stake in the fledgling firm.
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Comment & OpinionUK wheat prices: A double whammy
UK wheat prices have plummeted 20% this year – leaving farmers facing a double whammy.
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Comment & OpinionA two-fingered salute
US citizens everywhere are today celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In the UK, as a supposed ‘nation of shopkeepers’, we’re celebrating independence of a different sort – that of our retailers.
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Comment & OpinionA foodie vision
Why doesn’t the UK have more protected regional products? And what role can they play in our food economy?
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Comment & OpinionOcado is going places
Amazon often crops up in conversations about Ocado – with recurring speculation that the web behemoth will buy the online grocer. There is also the question of profits…
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Comment & OpinionBovine TB: Scare tactics aren't right
No, TB reactor meat in the human food chain isn’t the new ‘Horsegate’. It isn’t the ‘new’ anything…
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Comment & OpinionCAP in hand
We have a new Common Agricultural Policy. After two years of protracted negotiations, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers last night reached an agreement on EU farm policy until 2020. The deal will need to be voted through by the EP and member states, but ...
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Comment & OpinionMore of the same
The chancellor announced £11.5bn in public spending cuts for 2015-16 today, topping up the 2010 comprehensive spending review, which, it seems, wasn’t quite comprehensive enough…
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Comment & OpinionGame, set, eat
Tomorrow morning at 5:30am delivery vans will drive into SW19 – as they will do for the next 12 days – to drop off the daily batch of freshly picked grade 1 strawberries…
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Comment & OpinionLife in the old co-op yet
There’s been a spate of bad headlines for The Co-operative Group of late, since its banking arm’s agreement to buy 632 branches of Lloyds Bank fell through in April…
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Comment & OpinionFood label apathy
Today’s headlines have focused on who hasn’t signed up to the government’s new front-of-pack labelling scheme. But do shoppers really care?
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Comment & OpinionWill Tesco let toys be toys?
Tesco has announced it is going to be removing all reference to gender on its online toys pages. But can it do more to end gender-colour stereotyping in toys?
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Comment & OpinionCorking news for wine
Could a new twist-off, twist-on resealable cork shake up the wine industry, and deal a death blow to the screw-top bottle?
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Comment & OpinionOde to WH Smith
WH Smith reported another sales dip today. Its like-for-like sales were down 6% year on year for the 14 weeks to 8 June, while total sales in its high-street division fell 8%…