Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 103
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Range Preview
Range preview: Asda spring/summer 2018
Health and inclusivity are the buzzwords for Asda’s new spring/summer range - here’s our pick of what will be coming to Asda shelves this summer
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Comment & Opinion
Newsagents need support from publishers and wholesalers
I have written before about the multiplicity of tasks facing small retailers, but some of the most challenging are in CTNs
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Comment & Opinion
Why has Conviviality spent out on company-owned stores?
The flotation of Conviviality on the stock market in 2013 was one of the most unlikely events in the history of grocery
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Analysis & Features
Lessons from The Grocer's conference on e-commerce
A stellar list of speakers, an action-packed programme, and one of the hottest topics in grocery
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Analysis & Features
Can Conviviality recover from its week of woe?
A surprise profit warning, arithmetic errors, unexpected tax bills. The booze giant has a struggle on its hands.
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Analysis & Features
Feeding London: keeping food & drink moving in the capital
Roads in the UK capital are clogged. And with its population set to grow to 10 million within 15 years, innovative logistics solutions will be needed to keep food and drink moving. Like what?
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Comment & Opinion
In defence of Co-op's approach to range and delistings
‘Right range, right store’ range reviews can deliver for suppliers and consumers if implemented correctly, says Dave Marston of Category Wins
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Comment & Opinion
Can brands and online giants defeat ‘fake news’ together?
Suppliers need the influence of online and social media giants as much as those giants need the spending power of suppliers
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Analysis & Features
How will supermarkets enforce the under-16 energy drinks ban?
Waitrose, Aldi, Co-op, Tesco and Morrisons plan to exercise their Challenge 25 policies, currently used for alcohol sales
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Analysis & Features
The top 50 independents: How to be king of your own castle
It’s a brutal market out there in which to be an independent. So who would want to do it? What does it take?
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Comment & Opinion
Loyalty will be key at discount Tesco
Speculation that Tesco has a new discount store format in the works may have taken some by surprise
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Comment & Opinion
From Blitz spirit to looting, the Beast from the East reveals the best and worst of UK retail
One supermarket with no bread, eggs and meat is the rarest of events, yet this was a scene being played out at hundreds stores, large and small, across the UK
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Comment & Opinion
Curse of the zombie asset
Sir, Numerous column inches have been devoted to the mounting pressures facing casual dining
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Analysis & Features
The big 30 wholesalers: can traditional players survive?
The upheaval in wholesale and franchise spearheaded by Tesco-Booker means a more abrasive trading landscape than ever
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Comment & Opinion
Understand search to understand customer demand
Grocery is on a journey to become more customer-centric, efficient and innovative…
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Analysis & Features
Rise of the chatbots: How are these next gen virtual assistants being used by fmcg?
Neural networks have given birth to a new generation of chatbots that learn from their user
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Big Interviews
No pain, no gain: Amazon UK boss Doug Gurr on connecting the supply chain
With his penchant for ironmans and other feats of endurance, Doug Gurr is a glutton for punishment. But it’s the consumer’s pain he’s most focused on
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Comment & Opinion
Suppliers failing to fill the 'digital shelf'
suppliers need to raise the importance of e-commerce within their organisations or risk missing out on further growth
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Comment & Opinion
Reasons not to write off Tesco-Booker's discounter plans
Are we about to see the return of Tesco’s Fresh & Easy… in the UK?
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Analysis & Features
Murder on the shop floor: battling the rise of in-store crime
On a Saturday evening in January father-of-two Vijay Patel, working in the Rota Express store in Mill Hill Broadway, was killed over a pack of cigarette papers