All Daily Bread articles – Page 122
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Comment and Opinion
Once bitten, twice shy
Greencore’s hunger for a transformational deal was finally sated today, with the news that it has bagged Uniq for £113m.
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Comment and Opinion
Weathering the Twitter storm
Tesco has lost at least one customer as a result of the News of the World scandal: Labour MP Chris Bryant won’t be shopping there this evening.
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Comment and Opinion
Balancing hacked
Many of us will have woken up this morning to news of the latest depressing twist in the tragic story of Milly Dowler.
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Comment and Opinion
Size matters
Size isn’t everything. Then again, as anyone who forked out £15 to watch David Haye on Saturday night will tell you, a good big’un beats a good littl’un.
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Comment and Opinion
Premier's price of success
Bad news travels fast. This week The Grocer has been investigating reports that one of the major supermarkets has de-listed a raft of Premier Foods products.
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Comment and Opinion
Everything must go
As if it wasn’t already obvious, today we got another vivid symbol of the turbulence on the high street.
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Comment and Opinion
Back of the net
Typical. You wait months for a sustainable fish initiative and then a whole bunch come along at once.
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Comment and Opinion
Gold standard
Last night The Grocer crowned its annual champions, dishing out 25 awards to the industry’s finest at a black-tie bash in London’s Guildhall.
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Comment and Opinion
King's royal flush
Three months ago, Sainsbury’s supremo Justin King caused a few eyebrows to be raised when he claimed the Royal Wedding was “not a sales opportunity in any meaningful way”.
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Comment and Opinion
Mutiny-proofing
Where Tesco leads, others follow. Marks & Spencer might be a very different business but the high street giant has followed Tesco’s example with a shake-up of the pay for its top bosses.
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Comment and Opinion
2011: a floorspace odyssey
Arthur C Clarke always said he was an optimist. Not for him the rainy, oppressive dystopia of 1984 or Bladerunner.
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Comment and Opinion
Putting down Roots
When does the little guy become the big guy? At what point does a cottage industry become a sprawling commercial empire with fingers in every metaphorical pie?
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Comment and Opinion
Southern's cross to bear
There’s a piece in today’s Financial Times taking a look at how sale and leaseback deals have both helped and hindered UK businesses.
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Comment and Opinion
Tesco's money-go-round
At the start of his reign Philip Clarke said Tesco would not be going all “touchy-feely” on us. But he did promise a change in tone, including a vow to make the leadership of the business more transparent than it had been.
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Comment and Opinion
When ignorance isn't Bliss
You know you’re in trouble when you’re being called racist by the Daily Mail. That’s the unlikely position Cadbury found itself in yesterday.
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Comment and Opinion
Danes play the blame game
Rarely a day goes by without us getting sent research of variable reliability purporting to shed some light on what’s going on in consumers’ heads.
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Comment and Opinion
Long and binding road
Today the Grocery Code Adjudicator Bill was finally published, marking the beginning of the final chapter in this long and tortuous saga. Or perhaps it’s the end of the opening chapter.
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Comment and Opinion
The only thing worse than being talked about
Few people these days will believe there’s really no such thing as bad publicity. Even so, most marketers would consider a few snarky comments from internet critics a price worth paying for acres of free coverage.
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Comment and Opinion
Gluten-free goes super-Novak
On Saturday The Times reported with some gusto that food intolerances were a figment of our oversensitive and pampered western imaginations.
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Comment and Opinion
Clarke starts to feel the quality
In The Times today, Andy Clarke is again banging the drum on his supermarket’s new focus on quality.