Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 69
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Comment and Opinion
Can new M&S Food MD Alex Freudmann fill Stuart Machin’s shoes?
Who exactly is the man entrusted with the task of taking the retailer’s strongest-performing category for years to the next level?
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Why is it grocers ‘match’ their prices to Aldi as opposed to Lidl?
In thought, word and deed, Tesco is passing itself off as a discounter. Or not
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No melting for Häagen-Dazs’ expressive sculptress
Summer’s here, and Häagen-Dazs is celebrating with an ice cream sculpture
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How retailers can reimagine the scarcity model for UK consumers
Scarcity will always pose an issue to retailers, grocers and fmcg brands, but businesses can turn a problem into an advantage, says Katie Thomas, lead of the Kearney Consumer Institute
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Hungry For It: youth-focused cook-off offers a taste of reality
Few phrases will make you feel instantly old as that uttered by Accrington wannabe chef Serena
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How we are working towards becoming a carbon neutral business
You can measure your footprint with differing degrees of accountability
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GSCOP compliance has plummeted. Retailers must change their priorities
The dichotomy we see between supplier cost increases and retailer price drops is not sustainable, says Ged Futter, director at The Retail Mind
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Why Philip Morris really does want to kill the cigarette (and not humans)
PMI reckons it has ‘made the biggest step to improve public health globally’
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GSCOP survey highlights inflationary pressures, not lack of co-operation
At first glance, this year’s survey appears to highlight a decline in co-operation – but it’s not that at all, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Food and pharma are jockeying to be on the right side of consumer health consolidation
Major consolidation is likely to take place as the giants bid for dominance, says Warren Ackerman, head of European consumer staples research at Barclays
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The Grocer Cup winner Jonathan Warburton: baking’s brilliant Bolton Wanderer
The recipient of this year’s Grocer Cup, Jonathan Warburton, has grown a small family bakery into the biggest UK-based grocery brand by miles
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Lidl is accusing Tesco of ‘riding on coat-tails’. Well, it would know about that
There is an element of poacher turned gamekeeper about Lidl’s legal move
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National Food Strategy flop was always on the cards, but Dimbleby isn’t done yet
It’s easy to envisage Dimbleby’s proposals being revived in more favourable economic conditions
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The industry is at war with itself, and the cause is obvious, but the solutions are not
It might not have felt like it but, since 2014, retailer-supplier relations have enjoyed a tense benevolence
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Ginsters comforts rain-affected Cornish folk
Welcome to Cornwall. It’s raining. This doesn’t stop the locals from doing it dreckly though
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A car boot sale shows how sales confidence can pay dividends
The more insecure the tone from the seller, the more the buyer will try their luck
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Gene-edited foods shouldn’t be enabled in the UK while risks are ignored
Government is twisting science and mangling the concept of ‘natural’ to push through gene-edited foods, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Dish: Hartnett and Grimshaw’s Waitrose podcast lacks class
Dubious audio, uninspiring recipes and unnecessary distractions don’t make for a winning podcast
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Learnings from Lidl: how the discounter is maintaining long-term UK growth
Price perception, quality and positivity are all part and parcel of Lidl’s success, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Supplier relationships are souring, GCA activity shows. Do the supermarkets care?
Supermarkets and suppliers are locked in a series of disputes over negotiations on passing on inflation, which has given rise to a raft of short-notice delistings across a range of sectors