Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 108
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Analysis & Features
Can foodservice pay for provenance?
Foodservice players are responding to demand for local sourcing, but is paying higher prices for provenance sustainable?
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Comment & Opinion
Where is the tea-to-go?
The original national drink here seems to me to have been left languishing in the doldrums
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Analysis & Features
Is surge pricing worth the gamble?
Surge pricing – as used by the likes of Uber – could soon be in a store near you…
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Big Interviews
FoodCloud CEO Iseult Ward on how to redistribute a million meals per month
FoodCloud’s Iseult Ward is on the path to redistribute a million meals per month
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Comment & Opinion
The changing nature of convenience stores
Going through the ACS Local Shop Report, which came out this week, I found myself asking what convenience stores are for
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Comment & Opinion
C-stores need their own data revolution
IGD’s latest grocery market forecast highlights the boom in convenience. Now c-stores need the data to match.
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Comment & Opinion
Asda needs to follow Tesco’s example to keep in the GCA’s good books
So why has Asda escaped, and is the Adjudicator’s decision to hold back from the ultimate deterrent justified? Yesterday’s revelation that Asda had demanded millions from suppliers to finance its Project Renewal strategy – or face having their products stripped from its shelves – made for yet ...
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Comment & Opinion
Go on, do it better than Lidl
We all know that Lidl has been a consistent winner in UK grocery in recent years
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Analysis & Features
First look: Nisa The Battersea General Store tour - video
Far from only the basics, Raj Bathia’s Battersea General Store stocks exotic specialities from all over the world
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Comment & Opinion
You can't avoid the rating culture so embrace it
It’s almost impossible to stop negative reviews but avoiding the online space altogether is not the answer
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Comment & Opinion
Don't get too comfortable - spread your business
It’s no surprise that the number of grocery businesses going to the wall has risen
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Comment & Opinion
Can Hellmann’s ‘emergency’ recipes really beat takeaways?
On the face of it, the initiative taps all the right trends. People are demanding everything quicker, and at minimal effort.
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Comment & Opinion
‘Foodvenience’ sounds naff, but it’s a big opportunity for c-store retailers
The term was coined last week by Simply Fresh creative director Davinder Jheeta Foodvenience. As a grocery term it’s up there with ‘tummy touch points’ in its naffness, but as a concept it could just be the answer to one of the industry’s burning questions: How can ...
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Analysis & Features
Are those green shoots at Asda or is it all inflation?
There are encouraging signs of improvement for Asda under CEO Sean Clarke, but the patient is still in recovery
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Comment & Opinion
How grocery brands can work with social media influencers
Social media is playing an increasingly important role in helping brands connect with their consumers
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Comment & Opinion
‘Supermarket x’ and the ethics of food risk disclosure
Food safety recalls are always either too early or too late so how should regulators approach public comms during such scares?
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Analysis & Features
Nailing your first buyer meeting: 5 tips from food and drink startup founders
The founders of Pip & Nut, Spoon Cereals, Little Moons and Brew Tea Co share their top tips for food & drink entrepreneurs
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Comment & Opinion
Pun buns bring in the fun for Tang's edgy ramen fans
If you’re a fashionable London ramen bar, you need it to be a bit edgy in order to stay cool
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Comment & Opinion
Wholesale empowerment of women
Women are reluctant to put themselves forward. In my experience, they often wait to be asked for promotions and pay rises
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Comment & Opinion
The CMA should not allow retailers to be vague and dismissive about code breaches
News that supplier complaints about possible breaches by Asda have shot up in the past year, doesn’t tell the whole story, at least it took the reporting process seriously … unlike some supermarkets