Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 46
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Comment & Opinion
McColl’s lender talks set to be pivotal to the retailer’s future
McColl’s confirmed it had received an offer for the whole business but that it had been withdrawn
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Analysis & Features
Why aren’t supermarkets clearing the pork backlog?
Many producers are frustrated at a perceived lack of support from UK supermarkets
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Analysis & Features
Tesco and WWF: a ‘ground-breaking’ partnership?
Tesco’s partnership with WWF goes back to 2018 but what have they achieved in four years?
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Analysis & Features
The rules of real bread – and 10 examples available in UK supermarkets
Real bread was previously hard to find on supermarket shelves. But as more mainstream demand for the additive-free product grows, so does its presence in Britain’s biggest retailers
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Grocer 33
Where is Morrisons up to online? Interview with marketing boss Rachel Eyre
Morrisons gave a star performance in the Grocer 33 Online shop
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Analysis & Features
The unfortunate rise of social supermarkets: saving surplus food for those in need
The UK’s cost of living crisis is pushing more and more Brits into food insecurity. Social supermarkets and other surplus food redistributors have sprung up to get good food into the hands of those in need
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Comment & Opinion
Fruit & veg packaging announcement is a key moment in the war on plastic
Wrap claims a “staggering” 100,000 tonnes of food waste (plus 130,000 tonnes of CO2e) could be prevented by the measures
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Comment & Opinion
Why we’re researching the impact of supermarkets on community wellbeing
The Covid crisis appeared to stimulate a more agile response from supermarkets to local needs, says Caroline Lee and Catherine Hammant, researchers at University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
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Comment & Opinion
Retailer delay tactics on cost price increases are crippling for smaller suppliers
Needless and complex delay tactics by retailers mean necessary CPI processes grind to a halt, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & Opinion
Why GSCOP could be positive for Amazon as well as its vendors
GSCOP rules are great news for Amazon’s grocery vendors and in time will be great news for Amazon itself, says Paul Adams, CEO of Tambo
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Promotional Features
The rising importance of local convenience
During the Covid-19 pandemic consumers fundamentally shifted the way they spent their time and money, but what comes next for local convenience retailing?
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Analysis & Features
Will GSCOP stop the CRAP Amazon suppliers face?
Suppliers fear being deemed CRAP, standing for ‘cannot realise any profit’
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Comment & Opinion
How grocery loyalty schemes are evolving in 2022
Retailers are building out stronger, more personalised loyalty schemes to keep loyal shoppers happy, says Eagle Eye CEO Tim Mason
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Comment & Opinion
Big 30’s historic losses last year only tell half the story
Last year was the most challenging for the UK’s grocery wholesalers since the Second World War
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Analysis & Features
Will MyWaitrose loyalty card reboot win back sceptics after axing all the free stuff?
The scheme is getting more personalised. Is that what shoppers want?
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Analysis & Features
Brakes’ suffering turnover proves the pain of hospitality’s closure
The numbers cover the year to June 2020 and so include the period when the UK went into total lockdown at the beginning of the pandemic, though not the subsequent highs that came with the Eat Out To Help Out scheme
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Analysis & Features
Morrisons equals the UK’s 11th biggest wholesaler merging grocery and hospitality
It could soon hit its expressed target of £1bn in wholesale sales
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Analysis & Features
2022’s Big 30: the inflation battle facing Britain’s biggest wholesalers
Wholesalers have battled the challenges of Covid and Brexit with aplomb. But they now find themselves in the eye of another storm with rampant inflation… and patchy availability
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Comment & Opinion
Why Waitrose is getting more personal in its loyalty offer
The new MyWaitrose package aims to create a more personal bond with customers, says Martin George, Waitrose customer director
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Comment & Opinion
How did it all go so wrong for Farmdrop?
Farmdrop was a small business operating like a giant, and a Covid-driven rise in demand hiked costs, too