Comment & opinion – Page 300
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Comment and Opinion
My Week… by Buy One, Get One Free (as told to Bill Tush)
Looks like I will soon be consigned to the Elysian Fields of promotional activity
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Analysis and Features
Retrenchment and other key themes to look out for at CAGNY 2016
The Consumer Analysts Group of New York conference kicked off yesterday
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Comment and Opinion
Has Tesco hit on a new solution in the war on sugar?
The Sugarwise certification scheme is billed as sugar’s equivalent of the Fairtrade marque
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Suppliers selling directly to consumers is a disruptive tactic retailers must watch keenly
‘Disrupt yourself before someone else disrupts you.’ It’s the kind of maddening advice you read a lot in consultancy white papers on the…
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Comment and Opinion
Cost cutting by retailers needs to be 20% not 2%
What many retailers really need to do is dramatically change their cost position
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Comment and Opinion
Good fruit and veg driven out of the country
Having worked in produce for 20 years, I have seen how the grocers have driven value out of this sector
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Comment and Opinion
Sainsbury's is listening to customers saying bogof to multibuys
Another week, another brave move by Sainsbury’s, with its plans to scrap all multibuys by August
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Comment and Opinion
Build a relationship with your boss and control your career
If your boss had a hand in hiring you, then you can be confident that he or she already thinks well of you
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Philip Hampton has a tough job, but an important one: fmcg needs women
It’s ironic the government is seemingly unable to find a suitable woman to take on the role of business equality tsar
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Comment and Opinion
Sorting the Beef from the Bull: a considered food fraud take
Other food fraud scandals have been far nastier than Horsegate
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Comment and Opinion
My Week... by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (as told to Bill Tush)
Perhaps you knew I was Greek. What you might not know is my birthday falls on Valentine’s Day
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Comment and Opinion
We need education on sugar, not a tax
Tax is deeply addictive – without it government has to borrow
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Comment and Opinion
Grocers still need help getting to grips with e-cigs
As specialist vaping chains and online players cashed in, it seems the grocers were unworried, or out the back having a fag
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Comment and Opinion
Is UK farming facing a Brexit vote decided by the Britain’s Got Talent audience?
Lots of food for thought for the sector and potentially very little time to consider before we all go to the polls
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Comment and Opinion
Will Jamie turning ‘ninja’ scare the government into a sugar tax u-turn?
As the government continues to box itself into a corner, the prospect of that mother of all u-turns remains in the shadows
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Comment and Opinion
How 'recruitment feng shui' can help harmonise business
Loss of a senior employee doesn’t always have to be a cause for high blood pressure and emergency board meetings
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Comment and Opinion
MSC's blue tick eco-label is credible and independent
If a product doesn’t carry MSC’s blue tick eco-label on the pack, retailers cannot claim it contains MSC-certified fish
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Retailers have to make 'healthy' exciting
The M&S Adventures in Food campaign started the year highlighting the virtues of healthy eating
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Comment and Opinion
Sunday trading debate is being politicised by George Osborne
Liberalisation of Sunday trading would achieve a sanitised, homogenised feel to the UK
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Comment and Opinion
The Grocer's Power List 2016 reflects a sector in upheaval
Our Power List for 2016 reflects the looming emergence of a new force in grocery. Or should that be a new Death Star?