Comment & opinion – Page 60
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Comment and OpinionVeggie vamp makes polite plea on behalf of Heinz
It’s Halloween month, and Heinz is promoting its ‘Tomato Blood’
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Comment and OpinionSupermarkets have thrown caution to the wind in their interpretation of new HFSS rules
Who needs a gondola end when you can have no aisle? Why not tuck a special display just round the corner?
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Comment and OpinionWho is Tesco’s Aldi Price Match campaign benefiting most: Tesco… or Aldi?
Tesco’s repeated value benchmarking of Aldi in a cost of living crisis will be a ‘marketing case study in years to come’
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Comment and OpinionIceland and Home Bargains to close all stores on Boxing Day
The two retailers said it would allow staff more time to celebrate with loved ones
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Comment and OpinionShoppers are changing their buying habits to mitigate grocery inflation… and it’s working
UK shoppers are making significant changes to buying habits, but there is no single overarching reaction, says Kieran South, senior vice-president UK, IRI
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Comment and OpinionWe’re eating less vegetables and that shouldn’t be happening
Despite new HFSS regulations designed to make us more healthy, we’re eating less veg. The government should be concerned
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Comment and OpinionHFSS legislation is confusing, arbitrary and hard to enforce. Will it really make a difference to our health?
Retailers have done their best with this complicated legislation but the picture remains unclear as to its benefits, says Steve Dresser, CEO of Grocery Insight
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Comment and OpinionSmaller retailers are feeling the brunt of HFSS confusion
One of the biggest areas of confusion has been which businesses are included and which are exempt, says James Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores
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Comment and OpinionShoppers have high standards for grocery delivery – even in inflationary times
Consumers may be price-sensitive but expectations around delivery remain firmly in the post-Covid era, says Graham Smith, strategic account director at Gophr
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Comment and OpinionHow Sainsbury’s is using frozen food and labelling to tackle food waste
Reducing food waste in store, in supply chains and in customers’ homes is crucial to tackling the climate crisis, says Ruth Cranston, director of corporate responsibility & sustainability at Sainsbury’s
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Comment and OpinionAldi’s new ‘eco concept store’ is about much more than saving energy
The discounter is closing legacy sites – some of which are 30 years old – and opening bigger ones nearby
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Comment and OpinionCPI issues dominated the GCA conference. Let’s stamp out the unfairness
Right now, incidences of unfairness are dominated by CPIs – a topic not specified in GSCOP, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment and OpinionWhat does the end of free money mean for fmcg M&A?
A combination of higher interest rates and double-digit food inflation has the potential to change companies’ capital allocation priorities, says Warren Ackerman, head of European consumer staples research at Barclays
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Comment and OpinionWhat makes a leader and what makes a good people manager?
An age-old question. Managers of people versus leaders of companies. Are they the same?
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Comment and OpinionDeliveroo Hop’s first walk-in store has real promise, whatever the naysayers say
Pundits are already calling it like Argos for groceries’
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Comment and OpinionDeforestation must not be forgotten in the effort to tackle food price inflation
A food production system that drives deforestation will only increase in risk and fragility over time, says Thomas Maddox of CDP
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Comment and OpinionQuorn’s puppets reference M&S to play up quality
It says a lot for M&S’s ‘This is not just’ campaign that it’s still a quotable reference point
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Comment and OpinionBonfire of red tape won’t help if government makes it this difficult to plan
Erratic and chaotic government behaviour makes it monumentally difficult for businesses to plan
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Comment and OpinionWhy Tesco’s TikTok checkout voice search is a sound move
When it comes to buying groceries, only 17% of Brits consider human interaction important, according to a 2018 study by Whistl
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Comment and OpinionWhy my sister Celia’s death must lead to better food allergy controls
‘Free-from’ should mean a guaranteed total absence of the allergen from the food, says Celia Marsh’s brother Gareth Gower