Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 105
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Analysis & Features
When will Amazon have the last laugh?
A new study shows Amazon undercutting mults’ prices by 12.5% on average. But will it remain too small a player to matter?
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Comment & Opinion
Voice is loud at CES, but be wary
Hey Google’ proclaim posters across the Las Vegas monorail and convention centre as the Consumer Electronics Show opens…
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Big Interviews
Barry Williams, Poundland MD, on Toblerones and elves
Life at Poundland is never dull. In 2016 it was struggling, now sales are soaring
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Comment & Opinion
Can Dave Lewis really get suppliers to cut the price of healthier food?
Lewis accused suppliers in some cases of failing to do enough to tackle obesity by keeping their prices artificially high
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Comment & Opinion
New ways to reach those 'always-on' shoppers
I don’t think any of us could have predicted the level of media access society now enjoys as the norm
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Comment & Opinion
Predictions for 2018: sugar, veganism & food price inflation
We’ve loads of predictions this week. But before I offer a few of my own, I have a confession
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Comment & Opinion
Poundland has entered the new year in good elf
What a Christmas it has been for Poundland
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Analysis & Features
Coffee industry reacts to 'latte levy' environment report
MPs calling for a 25p charge for consumers using disposable cups
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Comment & Opinion
Students get a brain booster from Domino’s
Domino’s has developed a way to beat the Brexit brain-drain, shoring up the skills of our students
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Analysis & Features
15 food and grocery stories you may have missed over the festive period
From Tesco turkeys to Fudge bar scandals and the New Year’s Honours, here is our roundup of key food and grocery stories you may have missed since Christmas.
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Analysis & Features
What will 2018 bring for the world of grocery?
We asked 18 industry movers and shakers to look back on an often turbulent 2017 – and to gaze into their crystal balls
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Comment & Opinion
A bleak Christmas for opponents of the rubberstamped Tesco-Booker deal
For bitter opponents, reading the CMA’s verdict must feel like an untimely dose of the norovirus
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Comment & Opinion
We can already learn lessons from the Christmas ads
It’s not over until the last reduced mince pie is sold, but the fierce battle to dominate share of voice at Christmas is approaching its endgame, says Martijn Bertisen of Google
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Comment & Opinion
Poster creates Aldi suspicion
This Christmas Eve, Aldi stores are closing at 4pm, not to re-open until 27 December
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Comment & Opinion
Edeka plays a quality game against Aldi
Limited assortment discounters are challenging the orthodoxy of the good, better, best hierarchy in many categories
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Analysis & Features
The Christmas coffee shop drinks roadtest
We check out this year’s wildest festive concoctions so you don’t have to
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Comment & Opinion
Foodservice supply chains are ripe for disruption
A new breed of tech startups is working to disrupt sourcing for the foodservice sector - and it’s about to make a big impact in the UK, says food growth consultant Jason Gibb
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Analysis & Features
Is the Waitrose of the north about to become just that?
Rumours over a Booths sale have put both John Lewis and Amazon in the frame, but stores are no longer such hot property
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Analysis & Features
Mobile ready hero images: the quest for a global standard
With more shoppers buying groceries on mobile devices, the humble pack shot is looking increasingly outdated. But agreeing on a common standard for what should replace it is proving surprisingly tricky
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Comment & Opinion
Who killed Palmer & Harvey?
From the 2008 MBO, Palmer & Harvey still chose to pay out £70m in interest payments to preferential shareholders. Why?