Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 436
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Castello’s aristocratic acrobatics are a seductive Casanova substitute
As the current fuss about St Paul’s demonstrates, Brits love a bit of costume drama, especially when it involves fops in frocks flouncing about in existential crisis before the baying hordes.
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There’s no excuse for a poor delivery service
Online grocery retailers only offering day-long time slots for orders will pay the price in lost custom, says Andrew Yeoman
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Price war comes at the expense of quality
As the economy recovers, consumers will look for new points of difference not just price cuts, says Simon Crouch
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Laboutins and stinky boy cover
Some good news in the midst of the recessionary gloom at P&F. I have been promoted from account manager to senior account manager.
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The Big Price Drop sums up UK grocery
Despite the price wars, consumers are still sceptical: only 17% think supermarkets are doing enough to help.
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Dancing around the handbags
The Big Price Drop initiative is not radical enough to herald a price war, says Dr Clive Black
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Hell toupee for 99p shop in wig horror show
After the riots in Croydon, the last thing the less-than-leafy London borough needs is a race row on the high street.
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PR prisons and Olympic transgressions
News that a vast temporary prison is to be set up in London during the Olympics has sent shivers down the spines of marketing folk.
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New war on Whitehall’s wanton waist
The government gets a lot of flak over food policy - sometimes rightly so, you might say.
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It is possible to measure the impact of marketing
In the digital era, all you need is creative thinking and data to gauge the effect you’ve had on sales, says Felix Velarde
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Fixing the obesity epidemic is as hard as fixing the euro
The coalition wants to nudge, but the nannying instinct is still strong, as reaction to the Department of Health’s proposals last week proved.
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How to deliver the Portas vision?
Whatever the Queen of Shops proposes will need a realistic assessment, says Kevin Hawkins
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Critical Eye... on Hugh's meat-free masochism
First he did away with the discards; now he’s ditching the fish completely. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall goes veggie for the new River Cottage (Channel 4, Sunday 8pm), taking on “a whole summer without flesh” beneath a suitably…
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Big rewards for a sustainable food system
Our food system is currently failing on climate change, but WWF-UK has advice for government, says Mark Driscoll
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Job Dun
This morning C&C Group announced another set of healthy results, with profits up for the first half of the year.
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Chinese walls
After last month handing a new role to Dave Cheesewright, this week has brought more upheaval in the senior ranks at Walmart.
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Where will it end?
There’s a power dynamic in any relationship, even those where both parties secretly suspect they could do a bit better.
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We must grit our teeth during the downturn and just get on with it
I lost count of the times I was asked what I thought of the IGD Convention this week. Perhaps because I was so rude about it last year…
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The future of grocery depends on imagination
As the world reflects on the impact of Steve Jobs, how can we formalise creativity in our businesses, wonders Joanne Denney-Finch
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Critical Eye... on an hour of landfill TV
What a load of rubbish! No, I’m not referring to the 44 million tonnes of waste that gets sent to landfill every year in this country.