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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>An industry mantra that smacks of Ratner…Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City UniversityBit by bit, the enormity of the obesity problem is being realised in Britain. Last week retailers, including Tesco and Asda, were up...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>independents can prosper as well as tesco...get real about kids...Some of the most startling figures in this week’s magazine can be found in our lead story where we report that in the four weeks leading up to Christmas, 53% of...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>> Tesco bids for adminstore; rivals warn of dire consequencesAs I suggested in this column before Christmas, anything is now possible in grocery retailing. And, as if to prove my point, up pops Tesco with the sort of audacious...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>> reflection is no bad thing…The Grocer top 50 independents...And now, the end is near...So it was that with these words Ol’ Blue Eyes (Frank Sinatra; not Carlos Criado-Perez) ended the Safeway EGM this week on a somewhat...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>sainsbury must be clear about its convenience strategyAnother day, another retailer. As mentioned in this column just two weeks ago, The Grocer’s Top 50 ranking of independent retailers is proving a useful shopping list for...
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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>Martin Oakes, board director responsible for Somerfield’s development within the c-store sectorOur new business development teams have been busy in recent weeks with the purchase of Aberness, the award-winning convenience...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Why tesco’s dominance might just prove its downfallSir Terry Leahy is a man of few words but he may come to rue his comments this week that Tesco is through the period of greatest risk, during which Wal-Mart entered the UK and the...
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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>retailers cannot work alone in improving diets. Susan Bromley, marketing development manager, Co-operative GroupOnly individuals can take the decision to choose to live a healthy lifestyle. However, that doesn’t mean others don’t...
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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>food needs good science – Colin Gutteridge, md, RSSL, provider of science outsourcing to fmcg sectorAmid the media feeding frenzy that accompanies takeover talk such as Morrisons and Safeway, one can almost be persuaded that the...
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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>How can the industry combat deflationary pressure? TONY SMITH, SALES DIRECTOR, UNILEVER BESTFOODS UKAs I’m writing this essay all eyes are on Safeway. After months of wrangling, a decision has at last been made and, as many...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>The commission’s decision will set new rules for store portfoliosAs the industry awaits with bated breath for the Competition Commission’s report into Safeway to be published, what I find so intriguing is not the debate about who...
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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>let’s get close to farmers – Paul Willgoss, head of agriculture and technical manager of protein foods, M&SAt Marks & Spencer our customers’ interest in where their food comes from and how it is produced has never been greater. Who...
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Early days of a new medium

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

Tesco has much work to do to create a convincing case to suppliers for its instore digital media, says Siân HarringtonThe jury’s out on Tesco’s screen advertising network trial. This week the Tesco board weighs up the evidence to...
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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

A year ago this month, Tesco launched a ground-breaking supply chain initiative. The move towards 'primary distribution' was a major - but logical - next step in the development of the company's supply chain. The aims were to make life simpler for...
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Possibly left behind by Ken

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

A member of The Grocer’s advertising team got a reminder of Grocery UK while on honeymoon in the Maldives.He was surprised to see a Morrisons carrier bag on the counter in the “broom cupboard of a shop” on one of the smaller...
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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>Is Chip and PIN really shaping up? jeremy wyman, business systems manager, safewaySome people have questioned whether chip and PIN might be an attempt at closer European integration through the back door. After all the French have...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>BEWARE ANTI-AGEISM LEGISLATION; SAFEWAY IS PROVING A DRAGWhen we last touched on the issue of ageism in grocery, we clearly hit a nerve with readers, as our coverage sparked a flurry of letters from those who felt they had failed to...
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Opinion

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>consumers will remain an unpredictable forceSafeway and obesity. On the surface these two words have little in common. But, as two of the biggest issues of the year for the UK grocery market, the circumstances around them display...
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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>Colin Breed, Liberal Democrat MP South East Cornwall, ON WHY RETAILER POWER MUST BE CURBEDThe recent news of Asda’s 30,000sq ft expansion of a Sheffield supermarket caused me some anger and frustration. Since Asda’s absorption into...
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The Saturday Essay

2003-07-26T00:00:00Z

>>Jeremy Baker, senior lecturer in marketing, London Metropolitan University – the Office of Supermarket regulator is nighThe supermarket industry is going to be very sorry that it ever got caught-up in the Safeway takeover. The...