Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 164
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Analysis & Features
Cheap at twice the price
The packaging is awful. They look and taste terrible. They’re so unloved by the multiples that they hide them away on the bottom shelf where they sell for mere pennies.
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Loyalty: who's earned it?
The Grocer’s first ever study of supermarket shopper loyalty shows it takes much more than big stores, low prices and promotional muscle to create a loyal following.
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Comment & Opinion
It's remarkable that Tesco's £40bn supertanker can turn so quickly and simply
Little details really do count in retail. And they can turn around the performance of a £40bn sales supertanker in a matter of weeks…
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Comment & Opinion
Is the tunnel in sight, if not the light?
The new year has brought disappointment in financial markets with downgrades to profit expectations - not just for Tesco…
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Retailers must embrace m-commerce
Former New Look boss Phil Wrigley caused a bit of a storm recently while coining a neat phrase that will no…
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Comment & Opinion
Waitrose lorry fines under fire
Your article ‘Suppliers: fines from Waitrose are an abuse’ really touched a raw nerve.
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Comment & Opinion
Campbell jogs the memories of sobering times
There’s none so zealous as the converted. Panorama had retired spin king and former boozehound Alastair Campbell…
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Analysis & Features
Tesco ramps up promos... but still lags behind big four rivals
Entering the final furlong of its financial year, Tesco has turbo-charged its promotions - compared with last February anyway.
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Comment & Opinion
The tenuous link in grocery between performance and pay
I couldn’t help feel a tad ambivalent when I discovered that it’s not just bankers who’ve seen their pay packages squeezed of late.
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Analysis & Features
A year on, is Clarke getting Tesco back on track?
He’s had a rough ride in his first 12 months, but the CEO could soon appease his critics with a raft of measures for the UK.
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Analysis & Features
Will Tesco's Thai takeaway be appetising to investors?
It’s Tesco’s first major property deal outside the UK and the outlook for Lotus is buoyant, but Thailand’s volatility could sour prospects.
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Comment & Opinion
Happy chemicals and super-powered staples
How refreshing - an investigation into what’s good about the food we eat rather than more lazy “it’s all carcinogenic…
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Comment & Opinion
Short-termism is a habit retailers must kick
The storm surrounding bankers’ bonuses represents the most overt example of a developing public antipathy towards capitalism.
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Analysis & Features
More pie in the sky than pie and mash for Portas pilots
The government is offering cash to help town centres get Portas pilots under way but criticism of its approach is growing.
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Comment & Opinion
Why did Ugo struggle when all other discounters are flying?
Next week, Ugo Stores should have been celebrating its first anniversary. Instead, the fledgling discount chain…
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Analysis & Features
Can Chokablok keep up the pace outside the freezer?
Tesco is driving its venture brand into new areas but it will face a tougher fight in the confectionery market than ice cream.
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Comment & Opinion
The downside of expansion
For all the talk of retailers switching their attention away from new build supermarkets to revamps, there’s still plenty of expansion in the pipeline this year.
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco needs to listen... and learn
Tesco’s decision to accelerate the process of change to its core chain was a big surprise to the stock market.
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Analysis & Features
How wholesale is chopping and changing
With fuel costs and and commodity prices still going up, wholesalers are feeling the heat. Can diversification keep heads from the block?
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarkets are unavoidable... even for the wholesalers
At first glance, very little has changed in this year’s Big 30 wholesalers list. Booker is the stand-out, cash & carries are dominant.