All comment & opinion articles – Page 464
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Pension scheme laws: don't get left on the blocks
Olympians and Paralympians are not the only ones to have spent the past four years preparing for D-day…
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Blame it on the weatherman
When Hip-Hop doyenne Missy Elliot sampled the Ann Peebles classic “I Can’t Stand the Rain” for her 1997 breakthrough hit “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)”, it’s unlikely she knew that one day it would become the unofficial theme tune for Greggs.
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Buerk savant
Even if there wasn’t so much interesting stuff to discuss it would have been worth sitting through yesterday’s IGD Convention just for the annual delight that is host Michael Buerk ripping all the day’s speakers to shreds - strictly tongue in cheek , of course…
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The new edtion of The Grocer is now online
Philip Clarke took to the podium today at today’s IGD conference to offer his (latest) vision of the future. With all the unanswered questions currently facing Tesco’s boss, it probably made a nice change for him to look past the present…
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Zetar's sweet-talking suitor
There won’t be quite the same outcry as there was over Cadbury, and hopefully not the same borderline-xenophobic headlines in some of the papers…
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Inexplicable PR success at Aldi, as Crispello causes confusion
With the German balance of payments depending entirely on Aldi exports, a lot is riding on your next purchase of gesalzen gemischten Nüssen…
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Tesco will look wistfully at Aldi, not Sainsbury's
How irksome for Tesco boss Philip Clarke to update the City on its £219m decline in half-year profits on the same day Sainsbury’s revealed its 30th consecutive quarter of growth.
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Barman, there's a fish in my pint
Food Unwrapped promised “to ask the questions food producers aren’t expecting” - maybe because they’re too banal…
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Decimating town centres? Or benefiting them?
Do the costs of food store development in town centres outweigh the benefits? It’s time we moved on from the dogmatic…
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Tesco's Talking Shop blog is a one-way street
Tesco chief executive Philip Clarke isn’t hanging around to see if the first global profits drop in almost 20 years is just an anomaly.
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Sell more than just promotions: there are other business drivers
OK: you’re running a sales organisation and you think you spend most of your time on the right priorities…
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Ella's Kitchen founder on family friendly business
Looking ahead to this year’s Parents’ Week (22 to 28 October), I am alarmed that only 7% of us believe the UK is a family-friendly country…
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Talking Shop: Embrace the loss of control
I shop at Waitrose because, darling, Harrods is just too much of a trek mid-week” was perhaps my favourite response to Waitrose’s…
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King's sign o' the times
There’s a range of responses in today’s papers to Tesco’s results. Several focus on what the dip in profits means for Fresh & Easy, the FT styling comments from Philip Clarke about the loss-making chain’s performance as a “US ultimatum”…
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Is the supertanker changing
Today Tesco posted a 0.1% increase in UK like-for-like sales - not wildly impressive, perhaps, but nevertheless a major improvement on the previous quarter, and the first time in quite a while the numbers have been heading in the right direction.
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A cloudy vision of Guinness
Sometimes less is more. A new Guinness ad used to be a major event, but the second new film in a few weeks is a bit of a letdown, despite the big build-up it got from Diageo.After the earthy vigour of ‘Painting the town black’ - celebrating the annual branding ...
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Nutella Lawson comes over all Italian
There’s always room for a little Nigella in our lives - and little is the word after what the tabs call a “strict new diet”…
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Mending fences and dealing with referees
Q I’ve fallen out big-time with a colleague and it’s affecting the team. Should I swallow my pride, or hope it will improve over time?…
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We need to talk about food
Our food production system is facing unprecedented challenges. That was the stark warning issued by the Foresight report…
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Consumers want it. Now is the time to act on food waste
It’s been a privilege to be guest editor of The Grocer - and I’ve been encouraged to see so many good examples of businesses finding new ways to grow sustainably.