All comment & opinion articles – Page 465
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We can't leave farmers to go it alone!
This year will be memorable for many reasons, not least the Queen’s Jubilee and the Olympics.
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Plebs, badgers and smoking rules
“My God, what are we going to call them if we can’t call them plebs?” exclaims Karoline (with a K) during our Monday morning meeting…
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Don't be fooled by the rain
In Andalucia, Spain, last week, I pondered how water is fundamental to food and civilisation.
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Comment & OpinionSky falls in for Heineken's have-a-go hero
Heineken urges boozers to ‘Open your World’. But the world is not enough for James Bond…
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Time to PoP the green question
More and more suppliers are realising that following a model that places sustainability at the heart of the business is the only way to do business long term.
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Tesco's exception, or the new rule?
If all Tesco’s supermarkets looked like the one in Bishop’s Stortford, boss Philip Clarke would surely be spared the nervous days running up to next week’s crucial set of trading results…
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Badgers, the CAP and CSI Sainsbury's
As learning curves go, the one facing new farming minsiter David Heath takes some beating.
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The portman (road) group
As a direct descendant of Ipswich Town fans, Daily Bread feels a certain degree of affection for the sleepy Suffolk town. It’s probably genetic…
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Badgers, the cap and CSI Sainsbury's
As learning curves go, the one David Heath is on right now takes some beating. The badger cull pilots mean the coalition government’s new food and farming minister will get accustomed to the spotlight rather swiftly…
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It's Amanda's world
This week The Grocer welcomes its latest big-name guest editor. Amanda Sourry comes on board on Wednesday, taking a deserved breather from her job as UK & Ireland chairman of Unilever, one of the world’s true FMCG giants…
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Puff & Fluff PR fails to make the MAP Awards shortlist
Well, the posh frocks can stay in the wardrobe for another year…
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Asda's rice pudding error is no easy fix
Since when is a basket of shopping 66% cheaper at Waitrose than at Asda? When you discover a glitch in Asda’s 10% Price Guarantee…
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Wallop's Poundland 'exposé' lacked teeth
Secrets of Poundland (C4, 8pm, 17 September) pulled in Dispatches’ second-biggest audience on record…
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We need more of a buzz about bee crisis
Since we rely on bees to pollinate 90% of our food crops, you’d think we’d treat them with the utmost respect…
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Join forces to combat identity fraud in business, says FPC
Regarding your article on identity fraud, I would add that several fresh produce companies have also experienced this problem…
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Cancer study should give pause for thought
This week, we broke a story on thegrocer.co.uk about a highly controversial new French…
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Write to your MPs over extension of Sunday trading hours
I write with regard to the article concerning Morrisons’ plans for a push into convenience and an extension of permissible Sunday…
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Finding young people a future in food
One in seven of those working in the UK today is employed by the food and grocery industry - a total of 3.6 million people.
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Comment & OpinionWhose frog has the fresher legs?
Waitrose is taking on Tesco over price these days - but can Tesco boast of the fresher salad?…
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Retailers: time to make sure you've got a plan P
Public health interest is growing in endocrine disrupters: chemicals that alter hormones and body functions…