All Daily Bread articles – Page 114
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Comment and Opinion
Fresh & not so Easy
It’s a long way from South Queensferry to Los Angeles and there’s not a lot in common if truth be told, apart from a suspension bridge.
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Comment and Opinion
One fine day
Competition minister Jo Swinson today gave MPs, industry bodies, action groups and pretty much everyone you care to mention (apart from the supermarkets, obviously) what they demanded…
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Comment and Opinion
Minimum pricing - The debate begins
This week’s worst kept secret is out and the government has finally come clean with its plans for minimum pricing.
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Comment and Opinion
Paint it black
For American retailers the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales that follow in the immediate wake of the Thanksgiving holiday are the highlight of the year…
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Comment and Opinion
Fine time for the Groceries Code Adjudicator
To fine or not to fine? It’s the debate that has raged all week over the power, of lack of it, which will be afforded to the incoming Groceries Code | Adjudicator.
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Comment and Opinion
Ups and downs at Premier Foods
Premier Foods has impressed the City with its rationalisation work over recent months
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Comment and Opinion
Farewell then, Vion
While it’s baffling that a global meat giant such as Vion cannot succeed in the UK, today’s news that it is to exit the UK will come as no surprise…
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Comment and Opinion
Asda explains it all
The Grocer headed to Carnaby Street this morning for Asda’s Q3 results - which CEO Andy Clarke revealed were up 0.3%…
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Comment and Opinion
Tidings of joy for Sainsbury's
Sainsbury’s CEO Justin King admitted he made something of a gaffe in a live interview on Sky this morning.
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Comment and Opinion
Game on
It’s been a tough year for supermarkets selling video games. Although gaming is enjoying a boom in popularity, mobile platforms have become major competitors to the console format.
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Comment and Opinion
Baby boom breakthrough
Britain is experiencing a baby boom the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the 1970s.
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Comment and Opinion
Booker finds itself in limbo...still
Booker shares slipped by just over 2% this afternoon after the Office of Fair Trading revealed it was referring the cash & carry giant’s acquisition of loss-making Makro to the Competition Commission.
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Comment and Opinion
Mum's the word at Asda
“Just watched the @Asda Xmas advert - ffs, what the hell?! Can’t decide if it’s more insulting to women or men.”This was just one of many tweets condemning Asda’s ‘Behind every great Christmas, there’s mum’ ad, in which a ‘busy mum’ almost single-handedly sorts out the decorations, presents and food, ...
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Comment and Opinion
All Greek to me
How Greek should Greek yoghurt be? That is the question facing the High Court in London, as Total Greek Yoghurt maker Fage and US yoghurt heavyweight Chobani fight over who has the right to call their yoghurt “Greek”…
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco's big week
Tesco has had a busy week, even by its standards. It begun by launching a return to double points on Clubcard…
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Comment and Opinion
A new hope for retailers
Not everyone in The Grocer office this morning shared my enthusiasm for the news that Disney was expanding its empire with the $4bn acquisition of Lucasfilms…
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Comment and Opinion
A turn-up for the high street
Is Mary finally making an impact on the high street? It might not get as much attention as her eye-catching ideas for pop-up shops, markets and crèches, but The Distressed Retail Property Taskforce, set up as a result of a Portas Review recommendation, is serious stuff…
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Comment and Opinion
Aldershot, a turner and a sausage sarnie
A rugby club in Aldershot - on a wet, cold and windy Sunday evening - is a long way to go for a decent sausage sarnie.
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Comment and Opinion
Asda's trial by radio
When Sian Jarvis appeared on yesterday’s Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme to chat through Asda’s work towards the Responsibility Deal with presenter James Naughtie, it’s safe to say things didn’t quite go as planned for the Asda corporate affairs chief.
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Comment and Opinion
Time for an energy drinks enquiry
Monster is having a nightmare. But it’s nothing compared with what the parents of Anais Fournier have been through since the Maryland 14-year-old died last Christmas after drinking two 680ml cans of what the brand refers to as its ‘killer energy brew’ in a day.