Greetings dear readers. I'm now in Manchester for the Tory party conference after experiencing the highs and lows of Labour last week and am about to head to the secure zone. As well as picking up a fringe guide, I'll no doubt stumble across the mini-shopping mall that is apparently trading in...
What’s to be made of the news that supermarkets have, in the words of the British Retail Consortium, ‘effectively halved’ the number of carrier bags they hand out? To be precise the seven-strong group, which includes Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Asda and Marks & Spencer, cut bag numbers by 48%, over a three...
While the likes of Tesco are hell-bent on converting consumers to their own labels, brands would do well to spread their risk, diversifying their energies into the independent sectors where accurate new sales insight is shining a light on missed opportunities. With the large multiples currently weighting...
The story surrounding Asda staff dumping newspaper inserts from rival supermarket Tesco is an interesting one in itself. The Daily Record have covered the story here , but what particularly caught my eye was a comment left by a reader responding to the story which ended: "Tesco should respond by...
