Channels reports, insight and analysis – Page 91
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Comment & Opinion
How Aldi keeps getting things right
Aldi and Lidl have had a profound impact on our industry in the past five years, taking almost all the growth, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Analysis & Features
Shoplifting: are we giving thieves a licence to steal?
Legislation, policing policy, austerity, the growth of self-checkouts and even bags for life are being blamed for the rise in crime. But what can be done to tackle it?
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Comment & Opinion
Ocado and M&S: there's no smoke without fire
The fire is a serious blow to Ocado in the short term, with 10% of its UK capacity taken out
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Analysis & Features
From collapse to collapse: can Oddbins be saved a second time?
The off-licence chain’s turnaround was trashed by tax woes, changing shopper tastes, Brexit and steep competition. We ask whether Oddbins has a future?
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Comment & Opinion
What the Graze deal tells us about Unilever’s D2C strategy
D2C has been important for Unilever since its acquisition of Dollar Shave Club in 2016
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Comment & Opinion
It's time for suppliers to re-evaluate the stunning rise of Aldi and Lidl
A staggering sales growth of 10% over Christmas signals that the discounters may be unstoppable, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & Opinion
Iceland diverted attention from its own palm oil achievement
Iceland deserves huge praise for making hundreds of own-label products palm oil-free
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Comment & Opinion
Are the days of the fresh food supermarket counter dead?
After a flurry of speculation over the weekend, the news was nothing like as drastic as first appeared
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Comment & Opinion
As rumours swirl about Ocado and M&S, what kind of deal is most likely?
Analysts are united in their scepticism at theories surrounding the reported tie-up
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Asda breaks Lidl's unbeaten run to take the top spot
Asda returned to winning ways with a comprehensive victory over nearest rival Morrisons
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Comment & Opinion
HelloFresh’s results show recipe boxes may be worth the perseverance
This week’s results are one in the eye for those early doubters of the meal kit model
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Analysis & Features
Could social selling be the next food safety scandal?
As an increasing number of entrepreneurs start offering food and drink for sale online, established food safety systems are struggling
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Comment & Opinion
What search tells us about the latest healthy diet trends
Consumers are adapting diet trends to their own preferences, says Harry Walker, head of grocery retail at Google
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Comment & Opinion
Tesco’s counter-cutting move is ruthless but right for the business
Tesco admits at least 4,500 staff are expected to leave the business in the latest in a seemingly never-ending round of cuts
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Analysis & Features
Inside the NPD team rewriting the rules for supermarket beauty ranges
The mults’ push into the beauty category has created a need for a new kind of NPD: super-targeted, retailer-exclusive and with a rapid turnaround time. We caught up with the team at Brand Architekts to discover how it is rising to the challenge
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Analysis & Features
Christmas online: why didn't supermarkets do better?
What do the numbers tell us about the way forward for growth in online grocery?
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Analysis & Features
Grocery franchises & fascias: what do they have to offer and how much do they cost?
We asked 14 of the leading fascias what they had to offer to retailers
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Analysis & Features
What expensive ketchup can tell us about Amazon's grocery strategy
We asked Ray Gaul of Kantar Consulting to explain Amazon’s own-label pricing strategy on ketchup - and what it tells us about its wider grocery ambitions
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Grocer 33
Lidl maintains its unbeaten run but rivals close gap
Lidl’s margin of victory over runner-up Asda was just 3.3% – the narrowest since it first appeared in the Grocer 33
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Comment & Opinion
How changing promotions can help retailers escape pricing standoffs
Grocery retailers are trapped in pricing deadlocks, but promotions can be a way out, says Stephen Jacobs, insight director at IRI