Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 354
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Front-line staff are precious assets
Next week BBC2 airs its new documentary Shopgirls, charting the rise of women in retail…
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Aldi and Lidl are major opportunity for brands
In the Valleys what the lads mean for the props may be a discussion about forwards and backs…
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Crime against independents is not taken seriously
I have previously written of the success achieved in crime fighting in wholesale with our alert and intelligence initiativ…
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Findus Italia's gay pasta ad answers back to Barilla boss
Snaps to Findus Italia, which this week unveiled an enlightened new ad campaign featuring a gay couple…
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Entrepreurial start-ups are now the cool places to work
When I was leaving university, there was a very conventional career path for ambitious top-flight graduates…
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Aldi scores with Graham Taylor's cider-spilling World Cup ad
We’ve enjoyed Aldi’s simple and clever price comparison ads for some time now, but its World Cup special deserves praise…
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A taco world record for Old El Paso
Everyone loves a world record – but the good ones (fastest car, longest toenails etc) all require rather a lot of effort…
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Puff & Fluff prepares for a deluge of artisan food phone calls
The closure of Heart of England Fine Foods has spread panic through the ranks of money-for-old-rope merchants…
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Tiger the Tesco Kirkcaldy cat goes gentle into that good night
The tabby cat known to Kirkcaldy shoppers simply as ‘Tesco cat’ has moved on to the big scratching post in the sky…
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Do supermarkets have any right to demand supplier loyalty?
What to do about the discounters? That is the question every grocery retailer is asking. (Or should be.)…
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England’s World Cup woes spark merchandise sell-off
England’s tears have barely had time to dry and already the World Cup merchandise sell-off is under way.
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Coining it in
What’s behind Morrisons’ ban on the use of the £2 coin at some self-service tills?
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Spanish wines look to score
Tapas Fantasticas, despite its name, is an event all about wine - namely, Rioja wine, which wants to build its presence in the UK.
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Dark day at Morrisons
Morrisons is not alone in making in-store redundancies - and its plans have been a long time in the making.
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Rates reform dashed
Westminster has been accused of being a zombie government of late and, certainly, there was little sign of ministers springing to life to tackle the issue of business rates reform yesterday.
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Adidas social media strategy finds value of true fans
How to capture the attention of your target demographic at a highly important but ‘noisy’ time?…
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Soft drinks work to a new agenda
We’re constantly told the world is becoming more health-orientated and fizzy drinks and salt are the big fmcg evils…
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Don't blame the Adjudicator
Nothing is more certain to fail than a top-down attempt to change behaviour designed by bureaucrats…
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Titania struggles with Technicolour postcards on Google Glass
I am, once again, having to write a pitch proposal when there’s nothing remotely interesting to say about the brand…
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Why Coke is launching Coca-Cola Life
An increasingly technologically driven world has resulted in some of the biggest shifts in fmcg ever…