All Daily Bread articles – Page 127
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Comment & Opinion
'Bomber' Harris goes to war
Aside from Tesco appointing its next chairman, Philip Clarke unveiling a new strategy for the UK’s largest grocer, Sainsbury’s posting stellar profits and Ocado bizarrely blaming the bank holidays for a slowdown in sales while everyone else was struggling to match demand, it was shaping up to be a pretty quiet news day.
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Making hay while the sun shines
Time to crack open the Champagne? Last week The Grocer reported a record Easter for independents, while Booker and P&H were among the wholesalers toasting “massive growth” in booze as well as other essentials over the long weekends.
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Comment & Opinion
Ups, downs and notable omissions
Yesterday the Sunday Times published its annual Rich List. Once again, the ranking of the UK’s 1,000 individuals and families with the most cash to splash featured its fair share of figures from our sector.
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Comment & Opinion
Morrisons breaks out the bunting
Morrisons proudly revealed today that the bunting at Downing Street’s party for the Royal Wedding had come from one of its stores.
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Comment & Opinion
Sainsbury's family values
Last week The Grocer revealed Sainsbury’s was leading all other supermarkets in the promotional stakes.
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Comment & Opinion
Not a bad substitute for chocolate
It may have been all that sickly-sweet love in the air, what with the fairytale romance (or the hideously indulgent waste of taxpayers’ money, depending on your politics) set to unfold at Westminster Abbey.
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Comment & Opinion
Going loco for local
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Tesco. After those disappointing fourth-quarter results, its bank holiday began with the wrong sort of bang when a shiny new Express in Bristol was petrol-bombed by militants “dressed like ninjas”, according to one widely quoted bystander.
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Comment & Opinion
Laughing stockings
It must be the warm weather getting everyone so hot under the collar. In the papers it’s as if the silly season has started a couple of months early, with a bunch of dozy stories surfacing in the past few days that you’d normally expect to see only in high ...
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Comment & Opinion
Candid Clarke, Mk II
In recent weeks Tesco has been playing copycat with Asda over the latter’s price guarantee, with what you might politely call ‘mixed’ results. As well as being an avoidable PR own goal, Double the Difference also exposed Tesco to criticism that it has become uncharacteristically reactive of late.
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Comment & Opinion
Best food forward
Aptly for a government so concerned about waste, the coalition has been doing a bit of recycling over the weekend. It now wants to get rid of ‘best before’ labels, reasoning that people really do chuck away stuff that’s fine to eat because of the date on the wrapper.
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Comment & Opinion
Wine and reason
At the start of the year Constellation threw up its hands in despair at the UK’s habit of buying whatever wine is on promotion, selling its UK business to Aussie private equity group Champ at an appropriately hefty discount.
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Comment & Opinion
Indiana Bond and the Temple of Doom
Last week Andy Bond warned that the recession hadn’t yet hit home for retailers. Speaking at the Retail London conference, the former Asda boss said “an extended period of constrained consumption” was looming, resulting in a “long, long-term trend of trading down”.
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Comment & Opinion
Coke's hero to Zero
Tomorrow morning Wayne Rooney finds out whether he’ll cop a suspension from the FA for his potty-mouthed outburst down the Sky Sports cameras. While he’s sure to start against Chelsea tonight, Rooney certainly won’t be pulling on the hallowed red and white colours of Coca-Cola any time soon.
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Comment & Opinion
Competitive instincts
New figures from the BRC today had food inflation falling – down from 4.5% in February to a still considerable 4% last month. With salaries rising at nothing like that rate, no wonder there’s been a squeeze on consumer spending – as reflected in recent results from the likes of ...
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Comment & Opinion
Was it Alworth the effort?
From the ashes it rose – a gleaming purple-fascia’d phoenix that soared briefly, yet gloriously, across the retail sky. And back to ashes it has returned, with a sickening thump, to be tilled into the earth as food for the worms.
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Comment & Opinion
Mars's barmy army
It’s the nature of rankings like Britain’s 100 Biggest Brands that there are winners and there are losers. Or, to put it more generously, those that won less than others.
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Comment & Opinion
Feeling co-operative?
Today The Co-op unveiled some pretty dismal like-for-like numbers for food sales, down 2.5% on last year. That wasn’t a huge surprise coming off the back of a disappointing Christmas.
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Comment & Opinion
Nice weather for ducks
After last week’s gloomy news from the high street and a Budget that gave little cause for optimism to voters in our current weekly poll, today brought a raft of further statistical evidence proving what we already knew.
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Comment & Opinion
Buried alive
'Sainsburied’ screams the headline in today’s edition of The Sun. It’s a nice line. Just as pleasingly, though less dramatically, the Financial Times notes that ‘Good shares cost less at Sainsbury’s’.
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Comment & Opinion
The Irish example
These days Ireland’s economy resembles not so much the Celtic tiger of yore as a rather mangy tabby that’s gone through the spin cycle one too many times. So it’s novel for a commentator to look in that direction for an example of sound economic management.