Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 405
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Thank you Mr Paterson
Let’s be frank: Owen Paterson didn’t exactly have a dream start when he took over as Defra secretary of state after the reshuffle…
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Asda's virtuous circle
Asda’s plans for click & collect are a virtuous circle if ever there was one…
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SuperScrimpers Merry Christmas? Don't waste the electricity
Tis the season to be thrifty, so I thought I’d give A SuperScrimpers’ Merry Christmas a go…
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Add value to fight showrooming
Historians may one day point to December 10, 2011 as the official date the showrooming wars began…
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Indies must show more heart
In the week of the annual ACS Heart of the Community conference…
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Tesco is retrenching to a domestic market in which it is failing
Tesco attracts some serious talent. But CEO Philip Clarke and his new team look very exposed….
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Have discounters really cracked the UK?
Without doubt, discounters in the UK are currently enjoying an unprecedented run of growth…
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Your personal brand: managing the future as well as the present
I was running a coaching session with a senior individual recently. He had just secured a new role…
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The big supermarket squeeze
That meat processor Vion is deciding to exit the UK came as a surprise to Shore Capital…
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Fun-free Americans threaten to spoil Christmas at Puff & Fluff
By now I should be barely able to string a coherent sentence together…
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Escalating problems
How many more organisations, businesses and MPs must raise their voices against the annual increase…
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Fresh & not so Easy
It’s a long way from South Queensferry to Los Angeles and there’s not a lot in common if truth be told, apart from a suspension bridge.
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One fine day
Competition minister Jo Swinson today gave MPs, industry bodies, action groups and pretty much everyone you care to mention (apart from the supermarkets, obviously) what they demanded…
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Bleak expectations for 2013
Now is the usual time for ruminations about the coming year, so I looked back at the column I wrote last December…
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Know your promotion objectives before you select a promotion
Have you ever got to the checkout and been told: “These are on bogof so you can have another one free”?…
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Ad of the Week: Southern Comfort is big on confidence
A fat man wobbles across a sunny beach, his only accessories some 1970s sunglasses……
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The savvy shopper is here to stay
In these difficult economic times, there is a tendency for food retailers to be all doom and gloom….
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Great products are no longer enough
A new report on own-label growth in Europe has demonstrated the increasingly high priority multiples are placing……
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One Direction to sweet (Love) hearts
The funsters at Swizzels Matlow have long been playing with Love Hearts – and our hearts….
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The retailer dilemma: integrate or disintegrate
Omnishambles was recently named word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary…