Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 113
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Comment & Opinion
Business rates stifle c-store investment
The Chancellor must address the fundamental issues that make the business rates system unfair and perverse
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Analysis & Features
Can supermarkets cut it in today's fashion market?
Modern consumers demand appealing designs as well as prices
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Comment & Opinion
Icelandic PM pulled up on pineapple pizza prejudice
In an interview with some Akureyri kids last week, Icelandic PM Guðni Jóhannesson talked pizza toppings
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Analysis & Features
Which brands are getting it right on social media?
The industry has recruited many social media followers and fans – but how can they actually engage with them?
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarkets seem switched on over free-range eggs crisis
The big supermarkets seem switched on to the threat to free-range eggs
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Comment & Opinion
Smartphones are the best way to encourage shopper engagement
Retailers and grocers need to seize the opportunity to engage with shoppers in store through mobile
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Comment & Opinion
The shopping experience is out of date
The discounters displace and disrupt much of what we once assumed to be indispensable in the experience-centric market
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Comment & Opinion
Suddenly wholesale is hot. It's in demand. It's happening
Wholesale has never been sexy. Sexist perhaps: it’s an industry full of white van men. But not sexy
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Analysis & Features
The Big 30 wholesalers 2017: Why Tesco & co are gunning for wholesale
Tesco-Booker deal could trigger consolidation in the Big 30 on an entirely new level. So what does the future hold?
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Comment & Opinion
Are supermarket Valentine’s Day dine-in deals something to fall in love with?
So who is doing what in terms of a romantic promotional bundle? And how do they compare on price?
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Profiles and QandAs
Steve Murrells sets out his vision for Co-op renewal post-Pennycook
With Richard Pennycook departing, Steve Murrells sets out his vision for the renewal phase of a more aggressive society
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Comment & Opinion
The Grocer's Power List reflects the big four's resurgence
Over the years the supermarket bosses have dominated this list as a rule
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Analysis & Features
Deliveroo: a pick-me-up for the traditional c-store?
Volumes are still small but convenience retailers see big potential
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Comment & Opinion
Online brand loyalty may be automatically boring
I think it’s overly optimistic to believe that the future of retail will be shopping online
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Comment & Opinion
Amazon is quick to experiment but its expansion into UK grocery will be slow
Since it started pursuing the UK grocery market in 2015, Amazon’s every move has provoked prophecies of doom
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Comment & Opinion
It's time for retailers to master mobile
In the smartphone era consumers are now almost umbilically attached to their devices
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Analysis & Features
Aldi’s steady progress proves industry sharks wrong
Today’s news that Aldi has broken into the Top 5 validates the German discounter’s strategy plan, and confounds its critics
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Analysis & Features
Indies split over impact of Tesco-Booker merger plan
The independent trade is split down the middle on the merits of the shock £3.7bn Tesco-Booker merger
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Comment & Opinion
Catering, not indie retail, is the key to Tesco-Booker merger
It is great to hear that everyone will benefit from the Tesco ‘merger’ with Booker - but it’s also somewhat disingenuous
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco's Booker deal is further evidence of supermarket future-proofing
For Sainsbury’s and Argos and Morrisons and Amazon, you can now read Tesco and Booker