All The Grocer articles in Blogs – Page 17
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Comment & Opinion
A new hope for retailers
Not everyone in The Grocer office this morning shared my enthusiasm for the news that Disney was expanding its empire with the $4bn acquisition of Lucasfilms…
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Comment & Opinion
A turn-up for the high street
Is Mary finally making an impact on the high street? It might not get as much attention as her eye-catching ideas for pop-up shops, markets and crèches, but The Distressed Retail Property Taskforce, set up as a result of a Portas Review recommendation, is serious stuff…
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Comment & Opinion
Aldershot, a turner and a sausage sarnie
A rugby club in Aldershot - on a wet, cold and windy Sunday evening - is a long way to go for a decent sausage sarnie.
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Comment & Opinion
Asda's trial by radio
When Sian Jarvis appeared on yesterday’s Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme to chat through Asda’s work towards the Responsibility Deal with presenter James Naughtie, it’s safe to say things didn’t quite go as planned for the Asda corporate affairs chief.
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Comment & Opinion
Time for an energy drinks enquiry
Monster is having a nightmare. But it’s nothing compared with what the parents of Anais Fournier have been through since the Maryland 14-year-old died last Christmas after drinking two 680ml cans of what the brand refers to as its ‘killer energy brew’ in a day.
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Paterson books a place in the last chance saloon
Everyone loves a good export story, and this one was shaping up rather nicely. Less than two months after being shuffled into Defra, Secretary of State Owen Paterson was set to fly the flag for British food and drink in Paris - of all places!…
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Turning up the Turbo Tango
You couldn’t ask for a better demonstration of Turbo Tango’s USP.
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Comment & Opinion
Is it time retailers stood up in the badger cull debate
It’s been a busy week with badgers. From farmers being threatened with losing Freedom Food accreditation if they take part in the impending cull pilot and pre-eminent scientists criticising the government’s cull policy in a national newspaper…
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Blame it on the bean counters
There are only two certainties in life, as anyone will tell you: death and taxes. Unless you’re Starbucks, that is. It hasn’t paid a bean in corporation tax for the past three years, according to an investigation into the coffee giant’s UK tax affairs by Reuters…
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Comment & Opinion
Breakfast blues
Today’s papers were quick to pick up on a survey revealing that more and more children are going into school hungry. Seventy-nine per cent of teachers reckoned kids were turning up with rumbling tums, and more than half said the problem was getting worse…
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Comment & Opinion
Blame it on the weatherman
When Hip-Hop doyenne Missy Elliot sampled the Ann Peebles classic “I Can’t Stand the Rain” for her 1997 breakthrough hit “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)”, it’s unlikely she knew that one day it would become the unofficial theme tune for Greggs.
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Comment & Opinion
Buerk savant
Even if there wasn’t so much interesting stuff to discuss it would have been worth sitting through yesterday’s IGD Convention just for the annual delight that is host Michael Buerk ripping all the day’s speakers to shreds - strictly tongue in cheek , of course…
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Comment & Opinion
The new edtion of The Grocer is now online
Philip Clarke took to the podium today at today’s IGD conference to offer his (latest) vision of the future. With all the unanswered questions currently facing Tesco’s boss, it probably made a nice change for him to look past the present…
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Comment & Opinion
Zetar's sweet-talking suitor
There won’t be quite the same outcry as there was over Cadbury, and hopefully not the same borderline-xenophobic headlines in some of the papers…
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Comment & Opinion
King's sign o' the times
There’s a range of responses in today’s papers to Tesco’s results. Several focus on what the dip in profits means for Fresh & Easy, the FT styling comments from Philip Clarke about the loss-making chain’s performance as a “US ultimatum”…
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Comment & Opinion
Is the supertanker changing
Today Tesco posted a 0.1% increase in UK like-for-like sales - not wildly impressive, perhaps, but nevertheless a major improvement on the previous quarter, and the first time in quite a while the numbers have been heading in the right direction.
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Comment & Opinion
A cloudy vision of Guinness
Sometimes less is more. A new Guinness ad used to be a major event, but the second new film in a few weeks is a bit of a letdown, despite the big build-up it got from Diageo.After the earthy vigour of ‘Painting the town black’ - celebrating the annual branding ...
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco's exception, or the new rule?
If all Tesco’s supermarkets looked like the one in Bishop’s Stortford, boss Philip Clarke would surely be spared the nervous days running up to next week’s crucial set of trading results…
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Comment & Opinion
The portman (road) group
As a direct descendant of Ipswich Town fans, Daily Bread feels a certain degree of affection for the sleepy Suffolk town. It’s probably genetic…
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Comment & Opinion
Badgers, the cap and CSI Sainsbury's
As learning curves go, the one David Heath is on right now takes some beating. The badger cull pilots mean the coalition government’s new food and farming minister will get accustomed to the spotlight rather swiftly…