Archive of all comment and opinion articles – Page 471
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on Sophie's dead-eyed deliciousness
If there's one word to best describe Sophie Dahl it might be 'lifelike'. She has the right features in the usual places, moves in a realistic enough fashion and gamely attempts human speech.
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: PepsiCo’s first health report suggests they think the recession is over
How was it for you, Darling? The Budget, I mean. To me the Chancellor managed to be both punitive and non-committal, like he was dodging a bullet while a brigade of tanks is parked just round the post-election corner.
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Comment & OpinionDon Pumsey on Byers, porkie pies and Peter 'Skid' Marks
Frankly, I am sick to my very stomach. If we are to suspend our entirely justifiable disbelief in anything that the Sunday Telegraph and Channel 4 can concoct between them, my beloved colleague Stephen Byers has allegedly, m'learned friends been...
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Third Party: Think airfreight is the big bad? Think again
Environmental piety is misguided when flying flowers in from Africa has such benefits for Kenyans, says David Bosworth
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Second Opinion: Organic must spring into action
The UK has moved out of recession into growth. Clive Black asks if organic can do the same
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Yorkshire proof will be in pudding
Recent reports of a campaign to seek special EU protection for the humble Yorkshire pudding are getting a strong reaction from food producers and restaurateurs alike.
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Second Opinion: Lansley is right to trim the FSA...
But taking action on below-cost selling of booze makes much less sense, says Kevin Hawkins
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Third Party: Price cuts are not the only promotional route
Supplier-funded field marketing can improve customer experience, says Tracey Bagshaw, adding real value for the retailer
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Geoff Burch Talks Shop: Robin Jenkins Butchers
A highly traditional but thriving butcher’s shop pulls in loyal customers from far and wide, thanks to the owner’s passion for meat, skills as a chef and shrewd business acumen
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Comment & OpinionDon Pumsey on Drastic Dave Lewis and the big red pen
There are some parts of The Grocer over which Dave Lewis, this week's guest editor, has exercised absolutely no control.
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Saturday Essay: The ugly side of health and beauty retailing
A new lobbying forum has been set up to stem the huge losses to the sector caused by shrinkage, says Paul Winstanley
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Comment & OpinionCritical Eye... on the A-Z of edible animals
The Man Who Ate Everything (BBC Four, Wednesday 11.45pm) sounded like one of those tumour-porn medical shock-docs you used to get only on Five but now air constantly on most channels at most times of the day.
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Comment & OpinionEditor's Comment: Why does the industry dwell on the 2% we disagree on?
Nobody's perfect. We are not a perfect industry and there are things we can do better sorting out labelling and improving our environmental impact spring to mind.
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Saturday Essay: It’s time we had a united front on skills issues
With better co-operation, the industry can help develop a gold standard of excellence in training, says Jack Matthews
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Third Party: We can still eat meat, just a lot less of it
Headlines about ‘going veggie’ obscure the real message of how we can combat global warming, says Mark Driscoll
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Careers File: Loyalty is desirable and valuable... but how to create it?
Does loyalty really exist in the 21st century or has it become an old-fashioned, idealistic principle of a bygone age?
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Editor's Comment: Is it in indies' best interests that Today’s and Landmark are such bitter enemies?
Whether the percentages now flatter wholesalers or not, the 80/20 rule in grocery retail is still useful. It helps to instruct us not only on the balance of the market but how we should approach it: focusing on the main chance while stuff at the...
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Comment & OpinionDon Pumsey on beaks, claws and a kaleidoscope of colours
I don't know whether eating too much foie gras can make you lily-livered, but the FSA fat cats are showing every sign of capitulating to all parties over their wretched traffic-light system. FSA nanny-in-chief Tim Smith could hardly contain his...
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Saturday Essay: An ombudsman will work - if it has teeth
The introduction of an ombudsman will make the grocery sector a fairer place for all involved, says Tim Lloyd
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Comment & OpinionDon Pumsey on Mandy's dark mutterings
One can only wonder what the poor benighted Oompa-Loompas of Bournville felt as they read Mandy's latest comments on changing the law to protect Blighty's finest artisans from the foul clutches of Johnny Foreigner.