All The Grocer articles in Blogs – Page 8
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Comment & Opinion
Co-op divi doldrums
The Co-operative Group’s ‘divi’ is an icon of the grocery sector - so this week’s announcement is a bitter blow…
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Morrisons finds reasons to be cheerful
As Morrisons unveils its Christmas TV advert, the retailer was finding reasons to be positive about its latest results…
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The next guys
“The food industry is a meritocracy, and it’s really important that bright young people get recognised.” Which is what this week’s Top New Talent awards is all about…
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M&S food in rude health
A year on from his appointment as M&S’s executive director of food, Steve Rowe can be congratulated for making a good business better…
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Eyes on Tesco
Tesco’s announcement that it is introducing advertising screens into stores that will scan the faces of customers seems like peculiar timing…
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Cheese blocs
First Milk’s deal with Adams Foods is a live case study of the increasingly vertical integration taking place across the UK food industry…
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Fair's fair
“We’ve all got rather used to supermarket price wars. But there’s a new fight we’re going to pick.” So says Sainsbury’s Mike Coupe on its latest spat with Tesco…
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Feeling gloomy
The clocks went back on Saturday but gloom has been gathering on the grocery sector for a while - if you’re inclined to look.
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Leaves on the line
The morning after the night before, and St Jude the storm seems to have left behind a lot of scattered leaves, some fallen trees, and a vague sense of anti-climax.
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Over the border
With Tesco Ireland launching a new ‘price promise’ pledge to reimburse customers if their shop is more expensive than the offer at Aldi or Lidl, the retailer’s battle against the discounters just got bloody.
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Cheesed off
Spare a thought for the good people of the village of Stilton. They’ve just been told they can’t make Stilton cheese in the place that gave it its name…
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Hedging their bets
It was a dark day for the co-operative movement yesterday when bondholders led by US hedge funds Aurelius and Silverpoint took majority control of The Co-operative Bank.
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Salad daze
This morning Tesco revealed the true extent of the food waste it generated in the last six months, and, while the issue is one that has seemingly rumbled on for years, the numbers were enough to shock even this old hack.
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The holy grail
The Grocer this week caught a glimpse of food history - Cadbury’s heat-resistant chocolate…
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Self-serving?
What’s all the fuss about self-service tills? Has anything so mundane ever been so divisive? Every few months a new survey comes out about the popularity of self-service tills. It doesn’t really matter what the numbers are, those rabid commentators on the Mail Online have a field day arguing amongst ...
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Closing the net
It’s all happening online in grocery.As The Co-operative Group and Morrisons prepare to make their long-awaited and much overdue debut online later this year, Sainsbury’s is ratcheting up the competition.Just two weeks after the supermarket revealed its online grocery sales had hit £1bn a year for the first time, Sainsbury’s ...
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The NCA opportunity
The UK has a new weapon in the fight against organised crime as of this week, and the food industry should take note.
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Positive thinking
The strapline of this week’s IGD conference was “energy innovation and positive thinking”. But positivity wasn’t always display…
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Tesco's Finest hour?
Tesco has relaunched its Finest range with a view to growing sales by double digits. Can it succeed?
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Discount fever
After announcing a 15% rise in total sales to £880m for 2012/13 this week, Poundland has more than proved its ability to wrest customers away from the UK’s biggest supermarkets.Once dismissed as one of the underdogs of British retail, the discounter has seen a meteoric rise in recent years. It’s ...