Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 112
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Comment & Opinion
Fight this PayPoint landgrab
Steve Parfett is unimpressed with PayPoint’s new EPoS system for indies
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Analysis & Features
Mullan's tops the bill at 2017 Convenience Retail Awards
The Convenience Retail Awards 2017, organised by The Grocer and Convenience Store, celebrated the best retailers
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Analysis & Features
The need for speed: what next for supermarket deliveries?
With super fast delivery now ‘the currency’ of the retail market, how will retailers develop their offers?
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Comment & Opinion
Brand value must go into the mix at Morrisons
It’s not unheard of for supermarkets to focus on non-food departments to boost sales and footfall
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Comment & Opinion
Tricks of the coffee trade
The turnover of branded coffee chains in the UK has grown by over 500% in the last 15 years. How have they done it?
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Analysis & Features
Adjudicator Tacon takes supermarkets to task over forecasting
Christine Tacon has done a u-turn on forecasting, now the “number one issue” despite last year’s all-clear
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Analysis & Features
9. Analyst: Aldi and Lidl add £13m to canned sector
Own label is storming ahead in canned goods. We quiz Kantar analyst Will Sohler to find out what part the discounters have to play in this and what, if anything, brands can do to fight back
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Comment & Opinion
The benefits of next-level data interrogation
Sometimes, we obsess about day-to-day performance to the detriment of bigger changes
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Analysis & Features
Supermarket prices rising as curtain falls on deflation
The industry-wide deflation that has gripped the grocery market since mid-2014 fell back to zero in the month to 1 February
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Comment & Opinion
Iceland’s Malcolm Walker celebrates independent retail spirit
The yearly celebration that is The Grocer Annual Lunch saw representatives from the UK’s Big 30 wholesalers and the Top 50 independent retailers come together to reflect on the past year and plan for the future
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Comment & Opinion
Lessons from this weekend’s ordering meltdown at Sainsbury’s
Sainsbury’s handled the chaos well overall - but it could have done with being a bit more proactive
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Comment & Opinion
How the government can address business rate unfairness
If forecourts, ATMs and other business properties have their own business rates, why not one for online retailers?
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Analysis & Features
Is the BRC to blame for business rates revaluation fiasco?
With small shops facing eye-watering rates increases, how has this happened, and should the BRC have done more to stop them?
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Analysis & Features
Fascia Face-off Part 2: the supermarkets
Every week our Grocer 33 puts the mults to the test. But how about their c-stores?
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Analysis & Features
Little Waitrose
Like someone shrunk a full size Waitrose down to c-store size, the effect is instantly recognisable and pleasing…
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Analysis & Features
Morrisons Daily
At 9am there were only two sandwiches on offer, and the fresh fruit and veg was nearly empty
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Analysis & Features
Sainsbury's Local
Larger than your average c-store and no worse off because of it, this store was light and airy
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Analysis & Features
Tesco Express
If every Tesco was this busy its balance sheet would be looking a lot perkier
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Analysis & Features
M&S Simply Food
This M&S and BP hybrid forecourt still delivers in typical M&S style
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Analysis & Features
Co-op
This store was absolutely stuffed with SKUs but shelves were well stocked and neat and tidy