Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 133
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Analysis & Features
Wholesale and convenience sectors set for 'interesting times'
Has the phrase “May you live in interesting times” ever been more apposite than in convenience in 2015?…
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Analysis & Features
Fascias & Franchises Special Report 2015
It’s been a huge year for symbol groups with bright new entrants, chaotic changes, new enemies and a flurry of switching…
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Analysis & Features
How independent retailers can save money
January means watching the waistline. But it also means watching the pennies, even for independents.
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Comment & Opinion
Ranking the runners and riders for Dalton's old Morrisons job
The betting odds on the potential candidates don’t tell the full story
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Analysis & Features
Just how bad was Morrisons' Christmas trading?
Morrisons’ Christmas numbers were slightly better than expectations, so why did the axe fall on Dalton Philips?
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Comment & Opinion
Omnichannel shopping: the rise of the connected customer
The National Retail Federation (NRF) is hosting its flagship annual event in New York next week…
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Analysis & Features
Mults prove resilient in wake of festive apocalypse fears
Aldi and Lidl look set to be the big winners over the festive period but Tesco CEO Dave Lewis’ “saving of Christmas”…
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Analysis & Features
Iceland Mini Chocolate Custard Slices: acid test
This pack of 16 Mini Chocolate Custard Slices was launched late last year as part of Iceland’s Party range…
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Analysis & Features
Green shoots of recovery: analysts' views on Tesco
We look at analysts’ reactions to Tesco’s Christmas trading update to see whether Dave Lewis’ new strategy has won over – or at least reassured – the City.
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Comment & Opinion
Matt Davies is a left-field but intelligent choice to fix Tesco
The departing Halfords CEO seems to have a way with people, and that might be exactly what Tesco needs
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Analysis & Features
2015 remains tough but Sainsbury's will be buoyed by solid Christmas numbers
Sainsbury’s third quarter trading has been dubbed its worst festive period in a decade, but the lower than expected sales fall is more evidence that the supermarkets seem to have avoided the catastrophic festive slump some had predicted.
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Analysis & Features
It's hard to argue with Waitrose's bumper Christmas
The big four might be steeling themselves for a long, tough 2015, but life at the premium end of the grocery market continues to be far more enjoyable.
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Analysis & Features
Social Animal of the Year: Lidl's Ronny G on a charm offensive
When we used the word ‘offensive’ of Lidl in the past, we weren’t being complimentary…
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Analysis & Features
Oils: feeling the heat on price as Aldi and Lidl win sales
Talk about a double whammy. With olive oil brands under mounting pressure to promote harder as the supermarkets…
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Analysis & Features
Fresh meat & fish: Aldi & Lidl making mincemeat of competition
The discounters have made a major play for meat and poultry over the past year – with Aldi’s stunt…
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Analysis & Features
Is the budget end of the grocery market slowing down?
A lot has been made of the “free ride” the mainstream supermarkets have given the discounters over recent months, but today’s Kantar Worldpanel data seems to point to tougher conditions at the value end of the market.
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Comment & Opinion
Will Iceland’s milk price move leave other retailers out in the cold?
Iceland has delivered an early Christmas present to dairy farmers – announcing the price it pays milk processors for their milk..
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Analysis & Features
Ocado can reflect on a solid 2014 but the fireworks are still to come
Ocado’s growth may have slowed a touch in the fourth quarter, but it seems a little churlish to pick holes in solid figures that show the company surviving the current grocery retail chaos and coping with tough comparables.
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Comment & Opinion
2014 was a wake-up call for big four British supermarkets
The big four will be saying “good riddance” to yet another year. That is the price of taking one’s customers for granted…
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Comment & Opinion
The big supermarkets need to open up and share information
Over the past 10 years, we have witnessed an unprecedented shift in culture, both in business and society, towards opennes…