All Daily Bread articles – Page 113
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Comment & OpinionUK wheat prices: A double whammy
UK wheat prices have plummeted 20% this year – leaving farmers facing a double whammy.
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Comment & OpinionA two-fingered salute
US citizens everywhere are today celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In the UK, as a supposed ‘nation of shopkeepers’, we’re celebrating independence of a different sort – that of our retailers.
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Comment & OpinionA foodie vision
Why doesn’t the UK have more protected regional products? And what role can they play in our food economy?
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Comment & OpinionOcado is going places
Amazon often crops up in conversations about Ocado – with recurring speculation that the web behemoth will buy the online grocer. There is also the question of profits…
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Comment & OpinionBovine TB: Scare tactics aren't right
No, TB reactor meat in the human food chain isn’t the new ‘Horsegate’. It isn’t the ‘new’ anything…
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Comment & OpinionCAP in hand
We have a new Common Agricultural Policy. After two years of protracted negotiations, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers last night reached an agreement on EU farm policy until 2020. The deal will need to be voted through by the EP and member states, but ...
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Comment & OpinionMore of the same
The chancellor announced £11.5bn in public spending cuts for 2015-16 today, topping up the 2010 comprehensive spending review, which, it seems, wasn’t quite comprehensive enough…
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Comment & OpinionGame, set, eat
Tomorrow morning at 5:30am delivery vans will drive into SW19 – as they will do for the next 12 days – to drop off the daily batch of freshly picked grade 1 strawberries…
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Comment & OpinionLife in the old co-op yet
There’s been a spate of bad headlines for The Co-operative Group of late, since its banking arm’s agreement to buy 632 branches of Lloyds Bank fell through in April…
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Comment & OpinionFood label apathy
Today’s headlines have focused on who hasn’t signed up to the government’s new front-of-pack labelling scheme. But do shoppers really care?
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Comment & OpinionWill Tesco let toys be toys?
Tesco has announced it is going to be removing all reference to gender on its online toys pages. But can it do more to end gender-colour stereotyping in toys?
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Comment & OpinionCorking news for wine
Could a new twist-off, twist-on resealable cork shake up the wine industry, and deal a death blow to the screw-top bottle?
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Comment & OpinionOde to WH Smith
WH Smith reported another sales dip today. Its like-for-like sales were down 6% year on year for the 14 weeks to 8 June, while total sales in its high-street division fell 8%…
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Comment & OpinionSainsbury's wins big
Sainsbury’s was the big winner at last night’s Grocer Gold Awards 2013.The supermarket chain went one better than its haul of four last year - walking off with five awards on the night.As well as retaining the Online Retailer of The Year gong, it won Consumer Initiative of the Year ...
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Comment & OpinionAG Barr-Britvic merger: A different place
What was the OFT thinking when it referred the proposed merger of AG Barr and Britvic to the Competition Commission?
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Comment & OpinionAnyone for a picnic?
The sun is shining and a gentle breeze is stirring through the trees outside Grocer Towers this afternoon, putting us in the mood for a picnic.
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Comment & OpinionTesco slims down
It’s not very often that you hear a leading retailer – let alone one like Tesco – announce a policy of “active withdrawal”, but that is the phrase CEO Philip Clarke used today…
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Comment & OpinionOff their trolleys?
As The Grocer first reported on Saturday, this week sees the launch of a new app aimed at ridding the UK’s canals, parks and housing estates of the scourge of abandoned trolleys…
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Comment & OpinionBack to the future
The walls here at Grocer Towers are lined with beautiful, leather-bound volumes of The Grocer dating back to its origins in 1862…
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Comment & OpinionHumble pie and TV dinners
I had written off Tesco’s free Clubcard TV service before it even launched…