Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 45
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Analysis & Features
Can Asda’s new Just Essentials budget own-label range do what Smart Price couldn’t?
Asda has unveiled plans for a 300-strong essentials range to recapture its reputation for budget. But suppliers are calling it ‘impossible’
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Analysis & Features
Is Tesco on the right track with its supply chain trains?
Britain’s biggest retailer is turning to the railways to boost both its eco-credentials and its supply chain resiliency. Will its rivals follow suit?
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Comment & Opinion
Who Made Britain Fat? Michael Mosley documentary has little sympathy for food sector
Mosley unveiled the thousands of promotions on unhealthy grub across the mults
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Analysis & Features
How ready is the food industry for the HFSS clampdown?
The Grocer’s HFSS Clampdown Conference this week revealed a shocking lack of preparedness for measures due to come in later this year
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Comment & Opinion
HFSS promo clampdown must be delayed but not because of Ukraine war
The full extent of the supply chain chaos being caused by the tragic events in Ukraine are becoming ever more clear. Yesterday an all-party group of MPs received evidence from a host of industry trade bodies which made for frankly terrifying listening. Five-fold increases in energy costs, fuel prices tripling, ...
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Comment & Opinion
What we can learn from Sainsbury’s addressing its key area of weakness
Sainsbury’s took bold decisions to ramp up its non-food offer, and greatly strengthened its overall proposition in the process, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco’s food counter closure shows end is nigh for this unconvincing theatre
Just 6% of shoppers use supermarket food counters, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment & Opinion
Supermarkets should abandon the practice of resetting to help disabled shoppers
There are an estimated 14 million disabled people in the UK, meaning more than three million disabled shoppers are disadvantaged by resetting
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Analysis & Features
What’s gone wrong for McColl’s? And what are its next steps?
The pandemic convenience boom enjoyed by its rivals seems to have missed McColl’s out. Can its Morrisons Daily conversions save the day?
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Comment & Opinion
Hapless digital rollout of Healthy Start has failed the UK’s most vulnerable
Problems with digital rollouts have become par for the course over the pandemic
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Comment & Opinion
By cutting ties with Russia, businesses are proving they can put people over profits
Quitting Russia en masse shows the world’s biggest food and drink brands can act quickly and decisively when they want to
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Comment & Opinion
How shopper behaviour is mitigating grocery inflation
The latest grocery retail data suggests we’re at the beginning of a seismic shift in consumer behaviour, says Kieran South, senior vice-president UK, IRI
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Analysis & Features
Inside the shop that will never make a sale
B Corp UK’s Good News corner shop doesn’t sell a single item. It does give a few away for free though. So how does it make sense for brands?
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Analysis & Features
Will grocers become high-tech fulfilment centres?
It’s a dual use of physical space that has allowed retailers to roll out a physical retail presence
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Analysis & Features
How Covid has changed the supermarkets’ property plans
Two years of Covid has transformed shopping patterns and left property plans in disarray. For some retailers, a new strategy is needed
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Big Interviews
Costa Coffee’s Becky Brock on ‘backing the big bets’ with M&S and Coca-Cola
Costa’s commercial & customer director only joined 15 months ago but has already launched a tie-up with M&S, revamped Costa’s loyalty scheme, and expanded its Deliveroo partnership. So what’s next?
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Comment & Opinion
Aldi sounds like Waitrose with sourcing spot
Aldi has somehow made a virtue of its copycatting technique
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Whitepapers
Are online shopping opportunities set to dominate grocery post-pandemic?
2021 saw up to 80% of customers in the UK ordering their groceries online and the UK grocery industry is changing like never before.
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Comment & Opinion
'Brutal' consequences of single-use plastic tax threaten to undermine it
Time and again there has been a lack of joined-up thinking and a disconnect between vote-winning PR and the real situation on the ground
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Comment & Opinion
How the US is leading the way in self-service marketing
Self-service RMPs are relatively new to the UK market but are already bearing fruit in the US, says Matt Lee, MD at Capture