Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 453
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Terry, we hardly knew ye
Elvis has left the building. Okay, so Sir Terry Leahy is probably few people’s idea of a rock star. But for UK grocery, his long-awaited exit represents as seismic a departure as when rock and roll died on a Las Vegas toilet in 1977.
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Price wars... what are they good for?
Too much messing about with computers, it said. No one is going to want to go shopping, come home and start faffing about with the internet to see if what they have already bought might have been cheaper elsewhere, it cried.
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Second Opinion: We need a plan, Mrs Spelman
Ministers must get a grip on food policy. Why not continue Labour’s work, asks Tim Lang
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Critical Eye... on patients, petfood, pizza and puke
Only those who've had the misfortune to eat hospital food will know how revolting it is. I certainly didn't appreciate quite how bad until I experienced it first hand.
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Third party: Do your imports comply with new EU laws?
Under new legislation, importers could face costly delays if the product details they give are wrong
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Editor's Comment: Grocery leads the way as perfect storm looms
At its results, Asda this week stated that the British consumer is heading for the 'perfect storm'. In the same breath, on the supply side, oil was nudging $120 per barrel and some analysts are forecasting it could go over $200.
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Tales of Titania: The case of the disappearing Pepsi
So Pepsi disappeared from Sainsbury's shelves during Britvic's 'trade dispute' (aka hissy fit). Did anyone notice? I mean, would anyone buy Pepsi on purpose if they could get Coke?
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Saturday Essay: Base NPD on real consumers and real needs
Following these five golden rules will help ensure that brand extensions do not fall by the wayside, says Doug James
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Careers File: Control freaks must step back and learn the art of true management
Having been promoted from manger to an executive role, I have been criticised for being too hands-on. I am a good and effective manager but stepping back seems counter-intuitive.
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Agenda benders
Last week it was meat. In the battle for hearts and minds, conflicting reports appeared in the space of a couple of days: first busting the “myths” about red meat increasing the risk of cancer, then suggesting those myths were all too real.
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Satisfaction not guaranteed
Asda today published its full-year results – or rather, the collection of cherry-picked factoids that passes for a breakdown of its financial performance. Sales were up 1.6% on a like-for-like basis in the fourth quarter, representing something of a turnaround from the slow-motion car-crash of last year.
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Tales of Titania: Jaegerbombs on Valentine's
I don't care that it was a Waitrose 'romantic meal for two' and thus prole-posh. "It was only fifteen quid" are not words any girl wants to hear on Valentine's Day. And, dear banker Sebastian whom I shall never see again, you know exactly what you...
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Coming weeks will determine the retail landscape for years to come
In recent weeks, I’ve talked about the contradictions that exist between the government’s desire to tame inflation, cut costs, increase taxes and cure the nation of its binge- drinking habits.
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Third party: Get smarter with supply chain management
If you really want to cut costs you should be squeezing more efficiencies out of your logistics networks
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Saturday Essay: Shoppers must be encouraged to buy green
Voluntary collaboration and empowered consumer choice are key to cutting our carbon footprint, says Richard Hands
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Second Opinion: Green arguments must be refined
Livestock farming does not necessarily entail the cruelty that Safran Foer suggests, says Joanna Blythman
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Critical Eye... goes underneath the Masterchef apron
Hurrah! MasterChef is back. And it's better than ever. Boasting a slick new set and format, the latest series (9pm, BBC1, 16 February) will upset neophobes and has clearly taken its cue from the programme's international offshoots.
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Careers File: Government’s employment shake-up doesn’t address the concerns of employers
More suited to the pages of Alice in Wonderland than to the 21st-century world of the Big Society." That is how one HR director has greeted the government's new proposals to shake up the employment tribunal system.
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GSCOP, bad cop
Fittingly, the Adjudicator has had an air of mystery about it ever since the grocery ombudsman was given its rather Kafka-esque name last AugustClicks:4 (CTR 2.96%).
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Nocton's technical knockout
They say letter-writing is a lost art (although subscribers to thegrocer.co.uk can receive their Daily Bread via snail-mail on the back of a postcard of Crawley if they really want to).