Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 150
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Analysis & Features
Will indies go crazy for new online-only wholesalers?
A new type of online-only wholesaler is emerging, aiming to revolutionise the market by undercutting cash & carries on price…
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Analysis & Features
Tesco ups featured space promos by 10%
Tesco ramped up the number of featured space promotions by more than 10% in September compared with the previous month…
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Comment & Opinion
Poundland IPO valuations rumoured to be a lot more than a £1
Is Poundland set to float? In an interview with The Grocer this week, CEO Jim McCarthy didn’t deny it…
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Big Interviews
Mac the Knife: Lord MacLaurin on Tesco, Sir Terry and Philip
At Tesco’s agm in June, Lord MacLaurin stunned shareholders by laying into Sir Terry Leahy, his protégé. He talks to The Grocer about his Tesco, Sir Terry, and Phil Clarke…
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Comment & Opinion
Discount fever
After announcing a 15% rise in total sales to £880m for 2012/13 this week, Poundland has more than proved its ability to wrest customers away from the UK’s biggest supermarkets.Once dismissed as one of the underdogs of British retail, the discounter has seen a meteoric rise in recent years. It’s ...
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Profiles and QandAs
Aldi UK bosses on stellar results: 'Our formula is working'
As Aldi’s profits soared by a stunning 124%, The Grocer caught up with Aldi UK’s joint GMDs Roman Heini and Matthew Barnes to talk about saucy fish, its business model, the central London store trial, and why Asda can’t compete…
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Analysis & Features
The waste trail: a global scandal
Up to half the food the world produces may never reach the mouths it was intended for. What’s the solution?…
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco has head start with Hudl
Like me, many of you have no doubt been glued to Robert Peston’s BBC series on the history of British retail…
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Comment & Opinion
High streets need a reality check if they are to be reformed
To innovate is not to reform” said Edmund Burke, a distinction that would-be saviours of the Great British high street usu…
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Analysis & Features
Dragging the high street out of town
How serious a threat to indies is Tesco’s much-lauded reinvention of the hypermarket format?…
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Comment & Opinion
Digital tools can help turn around our high streets
The debate over the future of the high street needs to move away from being a public spat between Mary Portas and Bill Grimsey.
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Analysis & Features
Sainsbury’s leads the way... with more deals imminent
Sainsbury’s continues to offer more deals than its rivals largely thanks to its focus on own label…
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Comment & Opinion
Can The Co-op win over younger shoppers?
The Co-op is looking to attract younger shoppers - and its 10% student discount could be the breakthrough it needs…
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Comment & Opinion
Horsegate: heed economics of the cold chain
Sir: The supermarket business model is based on shoppers trusting what retailers put on their shelves…
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Videos
Video: Dalton Philips on Morrisons’ multichannel strategy
Morrisons boss Dalton Philips outlines his strategy for the retailer, and gives more detail on its forthcoming online service…
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Analysis & Features
Asda and Sainsbury's take lead in August price inflation fight
After spiking in June, price inflation at the top five supermarkets is tapering off…
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Analysis & Features
Grimsey's Bill for high street revival? That'll be £500m
And Mary Portas was seen as contentious. Bill Grimsey’s levy plan is under fire as a “swingeing tax”…
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Analysis & Features
Are pound shops milking it?
More and more non-food discounters are stocking fresh milk. What’s behind their attraction to the white stuff, and what does it mean for dairy?
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Comment & Opinion
The shop floor can be a springboard
The recent GCSE and A-level results set me thinking about career prospects in grocery and wholesale…
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Comment & Opinion
Why isn't Asda doing better?
Why isn’t Asda doing better? Is its functional advertising to blame? We’re about to find out…