All comment & opinion articles – Page 391
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Comment & OpinionSelf-awareness is key to effective team communications
During the course of my work I’m always intrigued to understand why we naturally click with some people…
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Comment & OpinionThe Co-op remembers Christmas with a funny, fresh ad
The Co-op is a little late to the party with its Christmas ad, but it has cleverly made a virtue of it…
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Comment & OpinionWaitrose's posh pithivier is a confusing 'meat-free' idea
“Who’s having a #meatfree Monday?” So asked Waitrose…
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Comment & OpinionLet’s get ready to rumble
With nearly three weeks of endurance eating and drinking yet to come before we all go cold turkey…
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Comment & OpinionWill Iceland’s milk price move leave other retailers out in the cold?
Iceland has delivered an early Christmas present to dairy farmers – announcing the price it pays milk processors for their milk..
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Comment & OpinionThe Tesco leopard can change spots - but can it still hunt?
There are four rules to rebates,” an ex-buyer once told me. “1. Get a rebate. 2. If you have one increase it…
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Comment & OpinionOrganic joy as Titania anticipates Premier PR 'crisis rates'
Those producer and manufacturer millions spent by the Organic Trade Board, which sounds all official but is only really…
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Comment & OpinionFDF publishes advice on new EU labelling rules
A checklist to help manufacturers adapt to new EU labelling rules has been published by the Food & Drink Federation (FDF).
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Comment & OpinionThe big fat problem facing food & drink manufacturers
the level of obesity in the UK over the past three decades has more than trebled…
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Comment & OpinionRevealed: The Grocer’s festive faves
Here at Grocer Towers we are starting to get pretty excited about the festive season…
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Comment & OpinionPremier Foods' lesson in business ethics
Having your business ethics challenged in the court of public opinion is never a comfortable place to be…
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Comment & OpinionThe wheels are coming off the Big Food-Big Retail wagon
Symptoms of the malaise in our food system form an orderly queue these days, like black cabs at a taxi rank…
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Comment & OpinionWill 2014's food & drink trends continue?
As it’s Christmas soon, I will share some key food and health themes I have witnessed and worked with in 2014…
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Comment & OpinionA convenient truth
Last year, The Co-operative Group served up a turkey of a Christmas ad. The instantly forgettable ad featured a lady leisurely walking home through frantic crowds because she’d done all her Christmas shopping at The Co-op. A panel of experts for The Grocer scored it a lowly 13 out of ...
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Comment & OpinionHow to win the multichannel commerce battle
This has been the year in which multichannel commerce penetrated mainstream grocery…
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Comment & OpinionJamie Oliver kicks off Christmas cookery TV in cracking style
And lo, the blizzard of Christmas cookery shows has begun, with Jamie’s Cracking Christmas…
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Co-op is right to focus on convenience
The Co-operative Group is correct to push on with its expansion in its core convenience operation…
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Comment & OpinionPlugging the black hole(s)
The £263m accounting scandal might, in the long run, not prove to be the most important black hole CEO Dave Lewis has to fix if he…
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Comment & OpinionThis ain’t your grandma’s sherry
I recently moved into a shared house in London – the sort of home typical of late twenty-somethings in the capital
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P&F plans a Co-op Christmas campaign; Titania stocks up on VO5
I may have mentioned Daddy’s deep loathing of “pinko shopkeepers,” and in particular The Co-op Group…