All comment & opinion articles – Page 488
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Greek food isn’t in Brits’ bad books
Sir, While Greek ready meals may be on the wane, the British public has certainly not lost its taste for Greek dairy products (‘And now Brits lose their appetite for Greek food’, 19 November). Futura Foods is the largest importer of Greek cheese into the UK and we have seen ...
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Dialling M for... modernisation
Morrisons’ current trials give glimpses of a revolutionary retailing future
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Lose yourself in some foodie escapsim
When the state of the economy is this relentlessly depressing, it’s nice to be able to lose yourself in some unashamedly escapist foodie TV
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We can’t afford a repeat of Christmas 2010
Last year, retailers lost out because of poor logistics. They’ll need to raise their games this year
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Don’t sacrifice service at the altar of price
The UK’s big five supermarkets – Tesco, Asda, Waitrose, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s – are currently embroiled in a very public price war.
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Comment & OpinionIs this new carbon reduction table just a load of hot air?
A new Environment Agency table that names and shames food companies for their energy use has been branded “pointless”. Is it, asks Beth Phillips
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Double-dip recession
Can a positive mental attitude, and the seizing of opportunities, make the difference?
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Ditching analysis will fix nothing
Councils need detailed scrutiny of the obesity problem to help tackle it
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Such a waste to pour green biodiesel away
Ending tax relief on biodiesel made from used cooking oil is a retrograde step by the government
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We’re working hard to support small traders
A plethora of government initiatives are providing a framework to help high street retailers flourish
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Reindeer meat is misunderstood
It is obvious the British public have no idea of how reindeer meat is produced.
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Business qualifications can make a real difference
There’s a weekly feature in The Sunday Times where a leading businessperson is asked a series of questions about leadership, people who have influenced their careers and what they look for in the people they employ.
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A fat load of good, Mr Lansley
The ‘nudge’ strategy on obesity merely passes the buck to industry
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Digital coupons must be used more wisely
Indiscriminate use of coupons is threatening to damage the reputation of a useful marketing tool
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The Greek economic crisis is an opportunity
Entrepreneurial and innovative companies with bold leadership will weather the Eurozone storm
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From the cabbage patches to the killing fields
The Great British Food Revival (Thursday, 7pm, BBC2) has a neat premise: top cooks trying to convert the great unwashed to ape their deviant gastronomic peccadilloes.
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Instead of a point of difference, supermarkets crave uniformity
I’m sure you’ve heard the joke before. Q. What’s the difference between a supermarket trolley and a retail analyst?…
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Get ready for a different type of own brand
In the past six months, several well-known own-label manufacturers have come to us with a project: to help them launch their own brand. In all the decades I’ve worked in design and innovation, I’ve never known anything like this. It think it’s fair to say that these numbers definitely indicate ...
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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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Lies, linguine and lustful ads
Completing a ‘dodgy stats’ hat-trick, Giovanni Rana has put out some fluff proving Brits are filthy liars who can’t cook but lie about it to wow guests.