Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 151
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Analysis & Features
Eye-tracking and football technology help retailers score
First there was eye-tracking. Now grocery is turning to technology used by football clubs to work out how people shop…
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Analysis & Features
The Grocer’s 1950 article on Sainsbury’s Croydon: 'An impression of airiness'
Here is how The Grocer reported the opening of Sainsbury’s “self-service” store in Croydon on 8 July 1950 - a shop that reopened this week as a Sainsbury’s Local.
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Analysis & Features
Has Strawberrygate hulled the lengthy promos of old?
As Daphne Smallman, 76, discovered while shopping at Tesco in June 2011, some pleasures aren’t as simple as they first app…
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Comment & Opinion
Think shelf-out if you want to stand out
Asda’s Stephen Smith has emphasised the need for retailers to communicate ‘brand personality’….
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco will benefit from a Chinese partner
Tesco is not going to give up on China. It can’t…
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Analysis & Features
How do symbol group own-label ranges stack up?
With the mults continuing to improve their own-label ranges, the pressure is on symbol groups to up the ante…
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Category Report
How can the supermarkets help revive the roast?
Retailers are just as important as suppliers to the roast’s fortunes…
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Analysis & Features
Steve Murrells reveals his recipe for the Co-op's revival
The Co-op Group’s Steve Murrells has put together a new strategy to rediscover the society’s mojo…
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Comment & Opinion
We need clearer unit pricing for food
With incomes squeezed and food prices continuing to rise, many people are shopping around for the best prices…
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Comment & Opinion
Show your Love, Co-op
The Co-operative’s own-brand relaunch – to ‘Loved by Us’ – is interesting…
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Analysis & Features
Back to school displays keep promotional volumes level
In July the leading supermarkets switched a lot of their featured space to back-to-school displays…
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Analysis & Features
Tesco’s vision of big-scale retailing takes shape in Watford
As test runs go, it doesn’t get much higher-profile than Tesco’s unveiling of its new Tesco Extra format in Watford…
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Analysis & Features
Can EasyJet founder make a discount grocery chain fly?
In an era of discounters, Sir Stelios thinks he has found a gap in the market for a store selling only ambient grocery…
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Analysis & Features
Why do short sellers like grocery?
Ocado, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons have all been heavily targeted by short selling hedge funds. Does this point to fundament…
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Videos
Tesco Watford video: Harris + Hoole boss tours new-look site
Tesco has unveiled its new-look store at Watford, bringing under one roof brands such as Giraffe and F&F. Harris + Hoole founder Nick Tolley gives a tour of the coffee shop.
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Analysis & Features
Will others follow Co-op's lead in lads' mag crackdown?
Its demands for modesty bags are a victory for UK Feminista but bigger chains are less likely to get steamed up…
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Analysis & Features
Lidl mixes home-grown and exotic fare this Christmas
Lidl is looking to boost its provenance credentials with more British-sourced products this Christmas. But it’s not dismissing its German roots entirely…
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco: there's life in the dinosaur yet
Tesco will attempt to reinvent the out-of-town hypermarket with Thai-style malls. Can it prove the dinosaur isn’t dead?…
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Comment & Opinion
Pay attention to the purchase experience
You’d have to pay me to get me to my local Asda, bombarded as you are by hanging signs and blaring radio ads…
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Analysis & Features
A new online dawn for indies?
Independent retailers have been reluctant to embrace online. Now, slowly but surely, attitudes are changing…