Comment & opinion – Page 317
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Comment and Opinion
Local searches: are you ready to be found?
”By accounting for a consumer’s constantly changing location, all businesses can benefit”
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Will Cheryl’s tie-up with Greggs have the X factor?
Cheryl Fernandez-Versini and Greggs seem an unlikely couple, but unusual pairings have worked in the past
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Promotion planning: make them relevant to shopper needs
Selling in grocery is not just selling a product or a promotion – it includes selling a plan and sometimes a vision
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Craft beer faces a potential identity crisis
Meantime’s embarrassing episode with the outsourcing of its London Lager to Holland neatly illustrates a craft issue
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Why Asda's current strategy isn't cutting it
Did the media smell blood? Or was it just silly season, with under-employed hacks going along for the ride?
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Trust is vital for the future of the food and drink industry
There is an emerging demand for products that are ‘LATTE’: Local, Authentic, Traceable, Transparent and Ethical
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Letters: Short-termism in milk, pop-up gimmicks, digital coupon standards
Milk farmers are not alone. The situation of milk pricing looks very similar to that of bananas
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As drinkers cut back, booze brands must look to push posh
Brits are eager to cut down on the booze, new research from Mintel shows
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Food's in vogue in the fashion world
Food and fashion can make for a powerful in-store experience, argues Gregor Jackson at gpstudio
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Changing Nature of our Shopping Habits: shift underlined
The combative tones of John Humphrys and his co-presenters on Radio 4’s Today programme are part of the morning ritual…
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Vloggers get a taste of the regulatory stick
The ASA has got its teeth into the previously unregulated world of vlogger brand endorsement
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Plain tobacco packs: a worrying precedent?
A new Australian study is the latest ammunition used by the UK government as it wages war on tobacco brands
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Analysis and Features
Clarke relies on green shoots as Asda reaches ‘nadir’
Andy Clarke today confidently declared that the worst was now over for Asda
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Food and drink innovation: four key questions
”Most food innovation fails in the market. And it is an expensive business.”
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Could monk fruit be key to solving the obesity crisis?
”It could be key to both helping to solve the obesity crisis and stemming the haemorrhage of juice-drink sales”
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Morrisons Milk for Farmers is test case for shopper support
”The move by Morrisons will enable us to see if British consumers are willing to support British farmers”
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M Local sale is a sad end for a great concept
Our news editor reminisces over one of the best convenience stores he ever visited - the first ever M Local
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Morrisons shoppers won't appreciate the milk guilt trip
Morrisons has moved at breakneck speed. That much was obvious this week
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Brands should reformulate quietly to keep intuitive shoppers
Sugar is the new salt. Which was the new fat. Since the dawn of nutrition there has always been a demonised ingredient…
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Awards give you shelf credibility
It has been a whirlwind of awards judging for me over the past two weeks, including The Grocer New Product Awards