Comment & opinion – Page 31
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Comment and OpinionCan Waitrose’s copper in the canteen plan arrest store crime?
It’s an easy-win solution that’s unsurprisingly grabbed the headlines. But it’s not innovative
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Comment and OpinionWhy we need mission-led brands more than ever in a cost of living crisis
We need brands that champion purchase drivers other than price, says Ben Black, executive director at Verlinvest
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Comment and OpinionHow bricks & mortar retailers can turn the tide on shop closures
Physical retailers should use their space to create an accessible, inspiring, eye-catching environment, says Heiner Evanschitzky of Alliance Manchester Business School
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Comment and OpinionWhy the language of sustainability must be more positive
Instead of dwelling on the imperative to ‘cut’, ‘reduce’ and ‘diminish’, let’s embrace language that speaks to goals and aspirations, says Greg Lawson, MD at sustainable packaging consultancy Aura
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Comment and OpinionThe shame of the DRS scheme’s collapse would be terrible
This weekend it appeared plans for DRS in the rest of the UK may have reached a terminal point
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Comment and OpinionCo-op’s price cuts show the convenience battle is on
The Co-op’s £70m investment in pricing marks yet another landmark shift in the retail landscape, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment and OpinionPlant-based will return to growth. The only question is how
Rumours of the death of plant-based meat alternatives are greatly exaggerated
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Comment and OpinionKit Kat knight tackles technological trouble
Kit Kat has gone back in time in attempt to bring its famous ‘Have a break…’ slogan into the 21st century
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Comment and OpinionThe 1970s Supermarket: Channel 5 kicks off convenience-focused nostalgia fest
A parade of retail expert talking heads explained how the shopping experience of yore was ‘really different to anything we’d recognise today’
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Comment and OpinionHow to free yourself from leaving work to the last minute
It was a Thursday and I’d been given a deadline of two weeks on Wednesday. When did I start? You guessed it
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Comment and OpinionIn Ian Meakins, Unilever has a chair with real intellectual heft
Unilever can expect its new chair to have all the smarts of his recent cosmopolitan predecessors, says Ian Wright, co-chair of the Food & Drink Export Council
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Comment and OpinionAre pack inserts the smoke-free solution or vape makers’ dream?
A recent Cancer Research UK report expects the government’s smoke-free target not to be met until 2039
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Comment and OpinionAsda is fighting fit, but has it unleashed a sustainable growth strategy?
In the latter days of its time under Walmart, Asda all too often resembled a punch drunk heavyweight boxer
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Comment and OpinionHow brands can harness the power of nostalgia
Nostalgia can be a powerful approach for certain brands, helping them bring back fond memories of their products, says Blake Armstrong, MD at Krow London
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Comment and OpinionKit Kat cereal and Corona Tropical are brand extensions too far
It is safer for brands to operate within their core proposition and expand only where relevant into adjacent spaces, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Comment and OpinionBritain can’t grow its way out of Europe mega-weather food supply threat
This year’s soggy British summer may well have presented a different argument, but Europe’s heatwaves pose an existential threat to food
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Comment and OpinionCell meat is a hard sell. I hope Brits reject it
While Brits might initially embrace fleeting food fashions, at the end of the day our food instincts are sound, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment and OpinionA convenience grocery price war is bubbling up
A new competitive front has opened up – great news for consumers
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Comment and OpinionAsda’s Just Essentials reduction shows the danger of a booming budget range
As commentators pointed out at the time of launch, a hugely successful budget range is a double-edged sword
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Comment and OpinionMcCain enlists dopey celebs to get a lesson in agriculture
Iain Stirling and Roman Kemp help McCain show off its pledge to commit to 100% regenerative farming by 2030