Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 378
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Green shopping should be made easy
Why aren’t consumers putting their money where mouths are when it comes to making more responsible choices?…
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Barilla pasta scandal shows brand ethics are under scrutiny
Barilla may have 206 different types of pasta, yet it looks as though it has never heard of diversity…
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Poundland IPO valuations rumoured to be a lot more than a £1
Is Poundland set to float? In an interview with The Grocer this week, CEO Jim McCarthy didn’t deny it…
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Grocery companies can build the workforce of the future
In my role as employment minister I am determined to do all I can to give young people a good start to their careers…
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Discount fever
After announcing a 15% rise in total sales to £880m for 2012/13 this week, Poundland has more than proved its ability to wrest customers away from the UK’s biggest supermarkets.Once dismissed as one of the underdogs of British retail, the discounter has seen a meteoric rise in recent years. It’s ...
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Tesco rolls the dice
2013, as fans of the Chinese Zodiac will know, is the year of the snake, and Tesco has gone down a few of those in recent months, as it battles to get its empire back at the top of its game…
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Cameron's dough! moment
David Cameron admitted on radio he didn’t know the price of a value loaf of bread. Was it a silly, unfair question, or an unfortunate gaffe by the PM at a time when the cost of living is making headlines?
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Aldi rampant
Aldi’s record results this week cap a remarkable turnaround for the discount retailer since 2009. Can it maintain its momentum?
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Aldi: why is it doing so well?
Aldi has been trading in the UK for nearly 20 years. In the last three or four it has delivered phenomenal sales growth…
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Panorama documentary reveals the human cost of cheap clothes
Panorama’s investigation into the Bangladeshi garment trade underscored the scale of the ethical sourcing challenge…
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Collaboration is key to sustainability
When colleagues talk about sustainability, collaboration is seen as a vital component in achieving success…
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Wanted: rigorous legislation to deal with duty fraud
Despite a huge effort, the industry has not managed to solve, or make significant inroads into, duty fraud…
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Cut costs by turning waste into energy
The industry is under growing pressure to reduce waste and find cost-effective ways of dealing with disposal…
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A lapse in judgement
Asda and Tesco’s ill-judged ‘mental patient’ Halloween costumes pose serious questions about the checks and balances applied to online merchandise. How on earth was this allowed to happen?
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E-cig ads vaporised
The Advertising Standards Authority today swung its firepower to bear on the e-cigarette industry, banning TV ads from four producers that it said misled consumers.
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Who says selling is weak? That's just wrong
At a round of sales training events staged by IGD, the speaker announced that the more you sell the weaker you look….
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Miliband's one nation – of shopkeepers
In a crucial day for the future of Ed Miliband and the Labour Party, it was a surprise to see his plans to freeze business rates chosen as today’s big speech trailer.But sure enough, a few hours later, Miliband took to the stage in Brighton and spoke up for hard-pressed ...
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Exports are opening doors
It is popular to bash the government for holding back business. But in the case of exports, it deserves praise…
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CIWF is not anti-dairy
Animal welfare should become part of planning law - this would ensure animal welfare is placed at the heart of megadairy proposals, or indeed any proposals for intensive farms…
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Selling requires you to adapt your style to the situation
Seeing the despairing face of the Asda food hall manager, I paused….