Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 235
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Our petition could help fund 100 million meals for charity
You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Profits without costings. Diversity without staff data…
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Don't underestimate the value of repeating a good idea
Last month we held the Rude Health Porridge Championships – our annual cook-off competition – for the fifth time…
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Barilla is a pasta brand not to be overlooked
Sir, I was rather surprised to see that within your pasta winners and losers Barilla was not included…
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A big win on waste flagged up by The Grocer
Sir, We at City Harvest, applaud The Grocer’s initiative to push for financial support for food redistribution
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The four next big disruptors in global fmcg
Staples companies are grappling with a bewildering increase in complexity
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Rick Stein's Road to Mexico: artifice with heart
Some artifice is inevitable when it comes to making TV…
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We are on the cusp of two watersheds in convenience history
Today, Nisa members will vote on their future. And on Tuesday the wisdom or folly of their decision will be tested
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People should be every business's number one priority
Four recent events have turned my thoughts to why treating people properly is so important, says Steve Parfett of AG Parfett & Sons
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Food redistribution is gaining traction
Food redistribution is a matter close to my heart. With so much food wasted worldwide, something simply had to be done..
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Sainsbury's first-half results: what the analysts say
Sales at Sainsbury’s jumped 17% to £16.3bn in the first half thanks to the acquisition of Argos, but losses at the catalogue retailer, keeping prices down and the national living wage all dragged down the supermarket’s profits
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The Grocer Drink Awards deliver the real deal when it comes to great tipples
David Beckham couldn’t be there on the night, but there was plenty of glitz and glamour at our prestigious annual booze awards
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Gü reverses time with hallucinatory backwards trip
What sets Gü’s ad apart is that it unfolds backwards
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Pat reflects on Mr Burnley's appointment as Asda boss
It’s lovely that Mr Burnley has finally got to be the boss at Asda, don’t you think?…
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Supplier vision must be category wide
If suppliers want to have traction with retailers, they need to talk the language they understand
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Marks & Spencer half year results: what the analysts say
Openings of Simply Food stores to be scaled back because of the ’increasingly tough trading environment’
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Grocery turns its sights on out-of-home eating in obesity war
Obesity is no different to food waste. If you can’t measure it, you can’t do anything about it, which is why the IGD’s full report on eating out due in January 2018 will be eagerly awaited
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Christmas is a big opportunity for the middle market
With footfall on the high street reported to have declined, retailers are under pressure
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Where there's food waste, there's gold
Our Waste Not Want Not campaign has helped achieve many things but there’s still so much more to be done
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Try to listen, Dr Fox. It’s a no from the public (and your fellow ministers) to chlorinated chicken
The trade secretary was back in the headlines after he told a House of Commons committee that he saw no reason why the British public shouldn’t eat chlorinated chicken from the US
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Nigella: At My Table - a masterclass in bored artifice
Between reality and its representation there is a yawning chasm. Into it fall the TV programmes of Nigella Lawson