Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 254
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Why the Tories’ workers’ rights charter might put the wind up big business
Food and drink organisations have been calling for the government to invest in the workforce, so why the jitters over a new Conservative election pledge?
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Lessons from The Grocer's Own Label Food & Drink Awards 2017
There’s much to learn from, admire and enjoy among the winners of The Grocer’s Own Label Food & Drink Awards
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Are you sabotaging your success? Seek out your blind spots
Rob is a CEO of a medium-sized organisation which has an ambitious and exciting plan for growth. He came to executive coach Jennifer Baker for some urgent careers advice
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Negotiation isn't a dirty word
Negotiation has been around since the dawn of trading and yet it’s the main topic of the news today
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As Aldi flourishes in the UK, what can we learn from it?
Aldi has flourished in the UK in recent years. Sales continue to grow, up 18% in the latest three months from Kantar
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Eat the Week with Iceland: Simon Rimmer stuck in advertorial
I feel for poor Simon Rimmer, I really do
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Does the Labour manifesto contain pro-business appeal?
Wading through the draft manifesto it is clear that Labour is promising exactly the sort of measures trade bodies have been screaming for
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Redistribution must raise its game
We cannot expect industry to double the amount of food they redistribute unless there is redistribution capacity
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Sainsbury’s gets even more feelgood with shaggy dog story
Now spring is here, Sainsbury’s has moved on to the only thing it can think of that’s more joyful than dancing and cooking
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Pat looks for some help from grocery's intellectual giants
I was a little disappointed to see Mr Norman being entrusted with supervising the decline of Marks & Sparks
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Big beer crate saves BBQ season
Always bring beer to a barbecue. But which brand? And how many cans?
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Does craft gin have what it takes to follow the success of craft beer?
Inspired by indie brewers’ aesthetics and ethics, a number of spirits brands are jumping on the ’craft’ bandwagon, what next? ’Craft wine’?
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Make eye tracking part of the shopper insight mix
Eye tracking has become an in-vogue research tool for the fmcg sector, but it is just one tool among many
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It’s too late to talk TV ad watersheds. Social media is the regulatory battleground
Whoever is in No 10 after 8 June, it is clear that the food and drink industry will face a raft of new advertising restrictions, both in broadcast and other media, after the election dust settles
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Are intelligent personal assistants the future of labour-free shopping?
The market for Amazon Dash is small but growing, at least in the UK. Now Walmart have entered the fray with their own device, expect to see, and hear, more about this latest technology
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Tesco has some hard decisions to make on what is 'healthy'
It cannot have been easy to persuade big brands to feature in the power aisle as ones to ditch
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Transfer rumour mill is nothing compared with what's going on in wholesale
Will Morrisons buy the Co-op? Will the Co-op buy Nisa and Costcutter? And who will buy P&H?
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Audits need to leap forward
The coordination and standardisation of audits was one of the eight pillars of food integrity in the Elliott Report
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Get mobile match fit in the machine learning age
You can’t just jump into the future – there has to be a solid bedrock and in the case of retail, that bedrock is mobile
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The future of eating is flexitarian
Sir, Joanna Blythman’s call for a more nuanced discussion than ‘all meat is bad/all plants are good’ is welcome