All Daily Bread articles – Page 110
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Comment & OpinionFeeling gloomy
The clocks went back on Saturday but gloom has been gathering on the grocery sector for a while - if you’re inclined to look.
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Comment & OpinionLeaves on the line
The morning after the night before, and St Jude the storm seems to have left behind a lot of scattered leaves, some fallen trees, and a vague sense of anti-climax.
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Comment & OpinionOver the border
With Tesco Ireland launching a new ‘price promise’ pledge to reimburse customers if their shop is more expensive than the offer at Aldi or Lidl, the retailer’s battle against the discounters just got bloody.
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Comment & OpinionCheesed off
Spare a thought for the good people of the village of Stilton. They’ve just been told they can’t make Stilton cheese in the place that gave it its name…
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Comment & OpinionHedging their bets
It was a dark day for the co-operative movement yesterday when bondholders led by US hedge funds Aurelius and Silverpoint took majority control of The Co-operative Bank.
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Comment & OpinionSalad daze
This morning Tesco revealed the true extent of the food waste it generated in the last six months, and, while the issue is one that has seemingly rumbled on for years, the numbers were enough to shock even this old hack.
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Comment & OpinionThe holy grail
The Grocer this week caught a glimpse of food history - Cadbury’s heat-resistant chocolate…
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Comment & OpinionSelf-serving?
What’s all the fuss about self-service tills? Has anything so mundane ever been so divisive? Every few months a new survey comes out about the popularity of self-service tills. It doesn’t really matter what the numbers are, those rabid commentators on the Mail Online have a field day arguing amongst ...
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Comment & OpinionClosing the net
It’s all happening online in grocery.As The Co-operative Group and Morrisons prepare to make their long-awaited and much overdue debut online later this year, Sainsbury’s is ratcheting up the competition.Just two weeks after the supermarket revealed its online grocery sales had hit £1bn a year for the first time, Sainsbury’s ...
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Comment & OpinionThe NCA opportunity
The UK has a new weapon in the fight against organised crime as of this week, and the food industry should take note.
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Comment & OpinionPositive thinking
The strapline of this week’s IGD conference was “energy innovation and positive thinking”. But positivity wasn’t always display…
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Comment & OpinionTesco's Finest hour?
Tesco has relaunched its Finest range with a view to growing sales by double digits. Can it succeed?
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Comment & OpinionDiscount fever
After announcing a 15% rise in total sales to £880m for 2012/13 this week, Poundland has more than proved its ability to wrest customers away from the UK’s biggest supermarkets.Once dismissed as one of the underdogs of British retail, the discounter has seen a meteoric rise in recent years. It’s ...
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Comment & OpinionTesco rolls the dice
2013, as fans of the Chinese Zodiac will know, is the year of the snake, and Tesco has gone down a few of those in recent months, as it battles to get its empire back at the top of its game…
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Comment & OpinionCameron's dough! moment
David Cameron admitted on radio he didn’t know the price of a value loaf of bread. Was it a silly, unfair question, or an unfortunate gaffe by the PM at a time when the cost of living is making headlines?
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Comment & OpinionAldi rampant
Aldi’s record results this week cap a remarkable turnaround for the discount retailer since 2009. Can it maintain its momentum?
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Comment & OpinionA lapse in judgement
Asda and Tesco’s ill-judged ‘mental patient’ Halloween costumes pose serious questions about the checks and balances applied to online merchandise. How on earth was this allowed to happen?
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Comment & OpinionE-cig ads vaporised
The Advertising Standards Authority today swung its firepower to bear on the e-cigarette industry, banning TV ads from four producers that it said misled consumers.
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Comment & OpinionMiliband's one nation – of shopkeepers
In a crucial day for the future of Ed Miliband and the Labour Party, it was a surprise to see his plans to freeze business rates chosen as today’s big speech trailer.But sure enough, a few hours later, Miliband took to the stage in Brighton and spoke up for hard-pressed ...
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Comment & OpinionExports are opening doors
It is popular to bash the government for holding back business. But in the case of exports, it deserves praise…