All The Grocer articles in Blogs – Page 17
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Comment & OpinionSochi missed opportunity
As the Winter Olympics opens, where are all the sponsoring brands?
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Comment & OpinionIn for a penny
You wait ages for a pound shop to start selling online and then three come along at once…
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Comment & OpinionPods become hot (and cold) stuff
Nestlé could be forgiven for feeling a little bitter this week. For years, it had jealously – and successfully – kept its Nespresso coffee pod…
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Comment & OpinionCASH’s smartphone app could be on the money
Last week, Professor Graham MacGregor, the scientist behind Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) – and the campaign for new targets on sugar reduction - accused prominent anti-sugar campaigners of being “nutters”.
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Comment & OpinionA plea for help
Plea for help or PR stunt? The Co-op wants your views on its future.
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Comment & OpinionBlue sky thinking
The BRC’s ideas on reforming business rates have certainly produced a few curveballs - but will they fly?
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Comment & OpinionSupermarkets taken to task
Which? has criticised supermarkets once again for their pricing tactics. But just how dramatic are its charges?
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Comment & OpinionA bruising battle
The Fairtrade Foundation is making bananas the centrepiece of Fairtrade Fortnight. But will it make a difference to banana pricing?
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Comment & OpinionPastures new
In Justin King and Peter Kendall, the National Farmers’ Union conference yesterday served up two major industry figures on their way to pastures new.
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Comment & OpinionNot quite a price war
Phil Clarke stopped well short of launching a fully-fledged attack on the discounters snapping at Tesco’s heels this week…
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Comment & OpinionDrinks lobby coasts into battle
The Call Time on Duty campaign ramped up its activity against the duty escalator a notch on Wednesday night with the launch of a new ‘coaster campaign’ to raise public awareness…
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Comment & OpinionThe £1 milk club
There are few things that agitate farmers quite as much as supermarkets messing with the white stuff. Milk prices are hot political currency, so Tesco’s announcement yesterday that it was slashing the price of four pints of milk by 39p – as part of a £200m investment in everyday low ...
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Comment & OpinionWhere next for the high street?
Yesterday’s long overdue report by MPs highlights once more the government’s farcical handling of its high street rescue mission.
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Comment & OpinionCo-op's True North heads east (London)
The Co-op’s True North project is experimenting with new format convenience stores - a strategy Steve Murrells says is paying off.
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Comment & OpinionThe patriotic approach
Waitrose MD Mark Price revealed yesterday he had consulted his own mum about the growth of the discounters.
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Comment & OpinionOwn worst enemy
In December we dubbed 2013 an ‘annus horribilis’ for The Co-operative Group. But it doesn’t look as if 2014, so far, is going much better.
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Comment & OpinionHidden in plain sight
Timed to coincide with Salt Awareness Week (10-16 March), a study funded by the British Heart Foundation claims that teenagers are “unknowingly putting their health at risk by eating too much salt”.
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Comment & OpinionExceedingly good marketing
Is Premier Foods about to ditch the ‘Exceedingly good cakes’ slogan from Mr Kipling? Not so fast…
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons wakes up to the discounters
For the best part of two years before Morrisons tied up its deal with Ocado ahead of its online launch CEO Dalton Philips faced endless questions about when it was going online, and how it was going to do it. At the same time Philips began using the mantra of ...