All Daily Bread articles – Page 127
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Comment and OpinionRiders on the storm
That’s more like it. Sainsbury’s today updated an expectant world on its second quarter trading and, in the context of the current market, the numbers are very impressive.
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Comment and OpinionThe windy City
Sir Terry Leahy today hailed the “tailwinds of recovery” as Tesco unveiled its interim results.
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Comment and OpinionWho feels like Chicken Tonight?
The received wisdom is that adverts should above all be memorable, by hook or by crook.
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Comment and OpinionA little healthy debate
If you didn’t work in the industry it would easy to miss how hard food and drink companies have worked in recent years to keep shoppers in shape.
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Comment and Opinion
Kraft's glass is half empty
The story reads like an April Fool prank, albeit not a great one. But last time we checked, it was September.
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Comment and OpinionThree out of four's not bad
Asda today discovered what hoops it needs to jump through to go ahead with its Netto deal.
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Comment and OpinionChosen by whom?
A few weeks ago The Grocer wondered whether Andy Clarke had stumbled into a ‘Ratner moment’ by admitting the quality of Asda’s food wasn’t up to scratch.
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Comment and OpinionThe American Dream
So even Sir Terry doesn’t get it all his own way. Today it was reported that the Tesco boss once drew up a £1.25bn blueprint for the most audacious invasion of America since the Beatles.
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Comment and OpinionRaising the rhubarb
To frustrated residents of Bray, home of the Fat Duck, the ‘Heston effect’ refers to the expansionist tendencies of the Berkshire town’s most famous son.
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Hanging baskets
Today the advertising regulator sided with Asda in the latest row over Tesco’s ‘real baskets’ campaign.
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Comment and OpinionBack to the food store
What do you get if you cross a supermarket chain and Doc Emmett Brown, the mad but genius scientist from Back to the Future who invested time travelling Delorean?
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Comment and OpinionSweet dreams are made of this
Thorntons is battling with sliding profits as today’s results reveal but the company is ploughing more money into its retail arm this year and its management is confident this will sweeten its sales in the long run.
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Comment and OpinionDiff'rent strokes
It’s the cautious traditionalist versus the high-tech upstart. The Bradford bruiser versus the southern dandy. For investors, it’s the safe bet versus the long shot.
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Comment and OpinionFire in their bellies
The Scottish government confounded the trade today by forging ahead with plans to go it alone on minimum pricing for alcohol.
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Comment and OpinionWide of the Marks
Those following the ups and downs of The Co-op’s acquisition of Somerfield would not have been surprised by the society’s negative like-for-likes this morning.
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Missionary Mars
Mars is cutting the dreaded satfats in its eponymous chocolate bars by 15%.
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Rage against the machines
Today’s headlines have been dominated by the menace of self-scan tills. (That, and the revelation some X-Factor contestants can’t really sing.)