Showing posts with label supermarkets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label supermarkets. Show all posts
Wednesday, 6 August 2014

The case for cheap food...

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The map above (you can view a bigger version here ) shows the proportion of household income spent on food and the incidence of malnutriti...
Saturday, 26 July 2014

Taxing supermarkets won't save the high street...but it will stop the high street saving itself

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The 'supermarket levy' campaign has been around for a while and, thanks to the thoughtlessness of local politicians in assorted p...
Sunday, 3 February 2013

Sir Terry Leahy is right about supermarkets...

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**** About supermarkets: Asked if seeing boarded-up shops made him sad, Leahy said: "It does, but it is part of progress. People ...
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Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Transition Towns - or how to be less resilient and exclude the poor

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**** Maybe I've been asleep - I don't usually miss left-wing, green wibble - but 'transition towns' were a new one on me. ...
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Friday, 21 December 2012

Rotherham Council gives local supermarket £80,000 - or so they don't say

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**** Well that's what it looks like to me : Carl Battersby, director of environment and development services at Rotherham Council, ...
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Sunday, 16 December 2012

Doctor know everything...

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**** Including about marketing and pricing strategies : ...citing an article from a medical journal in 2009 by a leading liver speci...
Saturday, 20 October 2012

"I don't approve of you drinking" - Cameron's message to the English

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The softening up process - the drip drip of judgemental leakage that typifies Cameronism - continues as we're warned about the new ...
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Monday, 15 October 2012

Crying foul at supermarkets won't save the High Street. Getting the offer right just might...

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Skipton High Street - success in a small town with three supermarkets In an article containing a vaguely linked set of slightly le...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

I wonder what's in Bradford Council's rather secretive "markets review"?

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Solly's Fruit & Veg - from John Street Market but here on tour in Haworth Way back in May 2000 I became Bradford’s Portfolio...
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Sunday, 20 May 2012

A hearty meal

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We took a trip to Shan's who call themselves the premier multicultural halal supermarket. They're in Keighley - another premier ...
Friday, 18 May 2012

More evidence that planning stifles economic growth...

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**** Now this isn't to say that we shouldn't have planning but is to observe that, if we do have planning, then we must appreciate...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012

The Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill or how to raise food prices without helping suppliers

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**** The Queen’s Speech setting out the government’s proposed legislative programme is, as these things always are, something of a curate’s...
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Sunday, 18 March 2012

Tim Farron - Communist

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Supermarkets are evil, they are driving down the prices for suppliers forcing poor farmers to go out of business. This must be stopped...
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Friday, 24 February 2012

Too few people using The People's Supermarket it seems!

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**** There was a flurry of right-on, luvvie commentary about the People's Supermarket a while back: Arthur Potts Dawson, the mast...
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Monday, 11 April 2011

Dear Res Publica, taxing the shopping habits of the poor to subsidise the preferences of the wealthy is immoral and stupid

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I wasn’t planning to comment at length on Adam Schoenborn’s Res Publica report, The Right to Retail – indeed Guido’s comments might have su...
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