Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 431
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Why did Ugo struggle when all other discounters are flying?
Next week, Ugo Stores should have been celebrating its first anniversary. Instead, the fledgling discount chain…
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Could the indexing of happiness really affect how we work?
What’s most important in your job? Is it security? Money? Career prospects? Or is it, as the American Declaration of Independence says, the pursuit of happiness that makes you get out of bed every morning?Happiness is happening this year. David Cameron believes a statistical measure of the nation’s wellbeing should ...
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It's time to talk tax: avoidance and value added
I’m not sure whether the Portas Pilots are a sign of quite how broke the UK government is, or how futile it believes this exercise is.
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Tesco needs to listen... and learn
Tesco’s decision to accelerate the process of change to its core chain was a big surprise to the stock market.
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Remember me to Galvani
I was touched by the article on Patrick Galvani in the excellent commemorative issue of The Grocer.
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Supermarkets are unavoidable... even for the wholesalers
At first glance, very little has changed in this year’s Big 30 wholesalers list. Booker is the stand-out, cash & carries are dominant.
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Tesco needed eco-labels
I was disappointed with Tesco’s decision to drop its carbon footprint scheme.
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Time's up for pack differentiation
The level of independents buying from multiples this Christmas increased by an order of magnitude, encouraged by a very evident relaxation of any quantity restrictions in many stores.
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Welfare is the issue, not the size of the dairy
As the former head of farm animal welfare for the RSPCA, I’ve seen some of the best, as well as some of the very worst, examples of welfare in industrial scale farming.
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Broken resolutions? Try these top tips for career success instead
You know the scenario. The festive season is far behind, along with a long list of broken resolutions.
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Girls smell too in Lynx's brave new world
Lynx users live in a world where every woman is a model-in-waiting desperate to tear off her clothes. That may be a side-effect of using aerosols in a confined space.
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Kraft falls for an early April Fool
We have, as has every PR agency, been working on our April Fool’s stories. A rare opportunity to…
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Baking's answer to Ant and Dec
If baking is the new rock’n’roll (it isn’t), Mary Berry must be Mick Jagger, strutting and jutting her turkey-neck in judgement over our muffins…
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Take care: online ads are now on ASA radar
Recent events have proved conclusively that the advertising watchdog’s bite can be every bit as bad as its bark when it comes to online adverts by grocery businesses.
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Tax is key to low beer abv
Your coverage of changes in beer strengths shows there is change and innovation in the UK beer market…
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Nobs, knobs and Tesco envy
Tesco-envy is about to sweep the land faster than an Ocado finance director leaping from a speeding delivery van.
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De-togging with the hungry toffs
Even the involvement of Hugh himself couldn’t stop me unexpectedly enjoying Hugh’s Three Hungry Boys.
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We must keep cutting the red tape
With the likelihood of a government-led stimulus looking remote, what can ministers do to make life less difficult for food retailers and processors?
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It's time we celebrated our food co-operatives
The offcial UK launch of the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives took place on…
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Draconian booze policy could break EU law
The World Health Organisation Regional Committee for Europe recently adopted a ‘European action plan to reduce the harmful use of alcohol 2012-2020’.