Comment & opinion – Page 236
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Comment and OpinionNisa members have spoken. The rebels must accept the Co-op deal – or look elsewhere
Nisa rebels are promising to go on the offensive and plan to convince the Competition & Markets Authority to nix the deal
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Comment and OpinionOur petition could help fund 100 million meals for charity
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Profits without costings. Diversity without staff data…
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Comment and OpinionDon't underestimate the value of repeating a good idea
Last month we held the Rude Health Porridge Championships – our annual cook-off competition – for the fifth time…
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Comment and OpinionBarilla is a pasta brand not to be overlooked
Sir, I was rather surprised to see that within your pasta winners and losers Barilla was not included…
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Comment and OpinionA big win on waste flagged up by The Grocer
Sir, We at City Harvest, applaud The Grocer’s initiative to push for financial support for food redistribution
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Comment and OpinionThe four next big disruptors in global fmcg
Staples companies are grappling with a bewildering increase in complexity
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Comment and OpinionRick Stein's Road to Mexico: artifice with heart
Some artifice is inevitable when it comes to making TV…
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Comment and OpinionWe are on the cusp of two watersheds in convenience history
Today, Nisa members will vote on their future. And on Tuesday the wisdom or folly of their decision will be tested
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Comment and OpinionPeople should be every business's number one priority
Four recent events have turned my thoughts to why treating people properly is so important, says Steve Parfett of AG Parfett & Sons
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Comment and OpinionFood redistribution is gaining traction
Food redistribution is a matter close to my heart. With so much food wasted worldwide, something simply had to be done..
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Comment and OpinionSainsbury's first-half results: what the analysts say
Sales at Sainsbury’s jumped 17% to £16.3bn in the first half thanks to the acquisition of Argos, but losses at the catalogue retailer, keeping prices down and the national living wage all dragged down the supermarket’s profits
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Comment and OpinionThe Grocer Drink Awards deliver the real deal when it comes to great tipples
David Beckham couldn’t be there on the night, but there was plenty of glitz and glamour at our prestigious annual booze awards
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Comment and Opinion
Gü reverses time with hallucinatory backwards trip
What sets Gü’s ad apart is that it unfolds backwards
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Comment and OpinionPat reflects on Mr Burnley's appointment as Asda boss
It’s lovely that Mr Burnley has finally got to be the boss at Asda, don’t you think?…
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Comment and OpinionSupplier vision must be category wide
If suppliers want to have traction with retailers, they need to talk the language they understand
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Comment and OpinionMarks & Spencer half year results: what the analysts say
Openings of Simply Food stores to be scaled back because of the ’increasingly tough trading environment’
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Comment and OpinionGrocery turns its sights on out-of-home eating in obesity war
Obesity is no different to food waste. If you can’t measure it, you can’t do anything about it, which is why the IGD’s full report on eating out due in January 2018 will be eagerly awaited
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Comment and OpinionChristmas is a big opportunity for the middle market
With footfall on the high street reported to have declined, retailers are under pressure
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Comment and OpinionWhere there's food waste, there's gold
Our Waste Not Want Not campaign has helped achieve many things but there’s still so much more to be done
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Comment and OpinionTry to listen, Dr Fox. It’s a no from the public (and your fellow ministers) to chlorinated chicken
The trade secretary was back in the headlines after he told a House of Commons committee that he saw no reason why the British public shouldn’t eat chlorinated chicken from the US