Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 148
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Analysis & Features
Champagne price bucks Christmas trend
A 20% surge in promotional activity in the booze aisle reduced the overall cost of many festive tipples this Christmas…
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarkets need to rethink their brand strategies
The end-of-year trading results of the supermarkets were entirely predictable…
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Profiles and QandAs
Symbol group switching - the why and how
What factors should indies consider when deciding which symbol group to join?…
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Analysis & Features
Is Dalton Philips any closer to delivering for Morrisons?
Last March, The Grocer ran a feature asking 10 burning questions facing Morrisons CEO Dalton Philips ahead of the retailer…
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Analysis & Features
Switching fascias: is it worth the effort?
Retailers who switched symbol groups claim the move boosted profits and sales. So why aren’t more doing it?…
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Analysis & Features
Community shop: Doing things differently in Barnsley
If Community Shop doesn’t look like a supermarket from the outside, it makes up for it once you get through the doors…
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Analysis & Features
One Stop's next stop: a franchised future
One Stop now has its sights firmly set on franchise. CEO Tony Reed explains why it’s not a Tesco shadow brand…
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Analysis & Features
As pound shop profits take a pounding, is format flawed?
Against the current economic backdrop, the pound shops should still be prospering…
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Analysis & Features
Morrisons keeps tightest lid on inflation
Supermarket inflation has held steady at just over 2% this month…
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Comment & Opinion
Rolling Stones answer call for herring aid in Iceland
As you struggle to remove bread sauce from your u-bend on Boxing Day, spare a thought for these marine researchers…
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Comment & Opinion
Lidl's madness is on display (cabinets)
Lidl is refusing to be left behind on the ‘great Christmas deals’ front…
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Analysis & Features
Indulgence dominates promotional space in run-up to Christmas
With Christmas just days away, the gondola ends of the nation’s supermarkets are more than ever focused on indulgence…
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Analysis & Features
Illicit tobacco: it's time to take a stand
As previously law-abiding indies are tempted, the illicit tobacco trade is growing again…
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Big Interviews
Brandon Lewis means business as he plans high street revival
New high streets minister Brandon Lewis on the “amazing” Portas, the new £1bn package, and that “load of crap” comment…
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Comment & Opinion
Town centres first?
A recent flurry of government measures are aimed at helping the high street. But is it just fiddling round the edges?
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Analysis & Features
Multiples up promotions in preparation for festive fight
Although potatoes have risen in price over the past month, they are significantly cheaper than they were a year ago…
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Analysis & Features
How to turn weather chaos into cash
Are forecasting systems helping retailers to not just cope with the weather but also turn it to their advantage?…
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Comment & Opinion
Lidl dreams - and reality
Is Lidl about to double its store footprint? Not quite yet; the truth is more prosaic…
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Comment & Opinion
Locals fight supermarket monoculture
Homebaked, a community bakery, has sprung up in an old bakehouse in the shadow of Liverpool FC’s Anfield stadium…
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Analysis & Features
Are dark stores the future for Tesco? Not necessarily
No Amazon-style blisters but don’t write off traditional stores yet…