Comment & opinion – Page 260
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Comment and Opinion
Fight this PayPoint landgrab
Steve Parfett is unimpressed with PayPoint’s new EPoS system for indies
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Heineken and a case of Tesco's conviction
Tesco has moved the centre of gravity in its range reviews towards products that really matter to customers
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Farewell free coffee at Waitrose - it was fun while it lasted
A loss leader like Waitrose’s free coffee is stupid if all it does is make a loss
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Our food environment needs protecting from the dead zone
New concerns about factory farming have been flagged up by Philip Lymbery’s book Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were
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Simon Amstell's Carnage: a witty and provocative look at meat
The year is 2067. Meat and dairy are outlawed
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Approach the new financial year with a mindset for growth
It’s Q1, a new financial year and a new performance year. An ideal time to consider your mindset
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Make offers and promotions hyper-personal
In days gone by, getting customers into stores revolved around blunderbuss techniques like cut-price essentials
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Why some brands might benefit from 'foster care'
Mergers and acquisitions pose the question of how to maximise the value and growth potential of a portfolio of brands
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Get ready for the smart home revolution
Smart home tech was all the rage at the Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas this week
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Brand value must go into the mix at Morrisons
It’s not unheard of for supermarkets to focus on non-food departments to boost sales and footfall
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Cadbury confuses with 'celebrity' confectionery lovers
We’re all familiar with the marriage of Cadbury Dairy Milk and Oreo by now
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Smutty cereal: a sexy way to start the day?
London startup Cereal Motel has come up with a quartet of what it calls ‘deliciously inappropriate cereals’
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Pat's niece supplies a lesson in economics
I had a bit of a eureka moment in the bath the other night
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Princess Anne lines up a royal rumble with GM comments
It’s always fun when the Royal Family weighs in on matters of national importance
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Analysis and Features
Tesco-Booker clouds the air for Palmer & Harvey and the tobacco giants
No smoke without fire? P&H has been making moves to become less dependent on tobacco companies for sometime, but rely heavily on them for financing, but will it be one merger too many for industry?
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The best of NPD from Natural Products Expo West
Claire Nuttall reviews the best innnovation from this year’s expo, including plant milks - and skinless popcorn
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UK food & drink is staring down the barrel of Brexit
Article 50 will be triggered next Wednesday. Time to get serious about negotiating the right deal for UK food & drink
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Time for a new approach to recruiting young grocery talent
An Vermeulen of CCEP explains why her company increasingly uses apprenticeships to recruit new starters
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An innovation drought is about to hit fmcg
Brand manufacturers are finding it harder to square retailer and consumer needs
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Labour shortages post Brexit challenge self-sufficiency notion
Uncertainty about labour supply throws into serious doubt the idea we can become more self-sufficient in the wake of Brexit