All Daily Bread articles – Page 124
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Comment & OpinionHangovers cured
A drink that gets you drunk without the hangover? It’s a pre-Christmas miracle! But are we ready for such a product?
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Comment & OpinionCo-op divi doldrums
The Co-operative Group’s ‘divi’ is an icon of the grocery sector - so this week’s announcement is a bitter blow…
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Comment & OpinionMorrisons finds reasons to be cheerful
As Morrisons unveils its Christmas TV advert, the retailer was finding reasons to be positive about its latest results…
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Comment & OpinionThe next guys
“The food industry is a meritocracy, and it’s really important that bright young people get recognised.” Which is what this week’s Top New Talent awards is all about…
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Comment & OpinionM&S food in rude health
A year on from his appointment as M&S’s executive director of food, Steve Rowe can be congratulated for making a good business better…
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Comment & OpinionEyes on Tesco
Tesco’s announcement that it is introducing advertising screens into stores that will scan the faces of customers seems like peculiar timing…
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Comment & OpinionCheese blocs
First Milk’s deal with Adams Foods is a live case study of the increasingly vertical integration taking place across the UK food industry…
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Comment & OpinionFair's fair
“We’ve all got rather used to supermarket price wars. But there’s a new fight we’re going to pick.” So says Sainsbury’s Mike Coupe on its latest spat with Tesco…
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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?