Sainsbury’s Tells Suppliers They Can Wait to Be Paid
Sainsbury's has entered the Forum of Private Business (FPB) "hall of shame" for slow payers. Extending payment times has allegedly left some small businesses wo...
Walmart Banks on Bluebird to Reach the Unbanked
Walmart hopes to convert unbanked customers to a prepaid debit card, dubbed "Bluebird," in efforts to gain share of the demographic. Bluebird is touted as an al...
Superheroes Rescue Healthy Food, Too
Stick pictures of kids' favorite characters, games, or prizes on packs of your product and you will sell more. Now researchers at Cornell University show it can...
Food Cos. Get Social with Young Adults
Today's received wisdom seems to be that young people are so wired to technology that it's the only way to reach them. At least, it's the best and most effectiv...
Independent Workaholics
According to a report from England's Association of Convenience Stores (ACS), some 60 percent of Britain's convenience store shopkeepers work more than 50 hours...
Protecting Integrity If Not Arteries
Rumor had it that Scottish fish shop owner, Lorraine Watson, who began deep frying Mars bars some twenty years ago was applying for Protected Designation of Ori...
E-Collaboration Among Indies Aims to Fight Big Chains
For independent retailers without the means to conduct e-commerce competitively, being able to offer seamless online shopping and delivery could be deemed Utopi...
Adding Dietitians to the Grocery Payroll
"There's been an explosion of interest in having a dietitian among grocery store retailers in the last three or four years." Should more supermarkets hire dieti...
Seniors In Retailers’ Sights?
Dealing (in every sense of the word) with an aging population is a hot topic globally as retailers worldwide seek new ways to make shopping easier and more attr...
Under-Age Checking – And Spending – Get Easier
The first-of-its-kind chip and pin-secured card has just been introduced in the U.K. for youngsters over the age of 12, which will control their spending, and p...
Happiness Is … Bringing Your Own Computer Devices to Work
Online business community Entrepreneur Country claims "it's surprising how something apparently as simple as allowing staff to bring their own computer devices ...
Big Food Turns Organics Into Big Business
The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) has increased the number of materials approved for organic foods from 77 to 250 since 2002. "Big Food" is said to p...
Campaign Brings Together Strange Dinner Fellows
For a brand, finding genuinely unique sales points (USPs) has never been easy. So when marketers stretch to make lateral connections with complementary brands, ...
Have App, Will Shop
American shoppers are experimenting with reality. An IBM-supplied augmented reality app is being tested at unnamed U.S. retail chains that lets shoppers specify...
Sharing the Real, Live Love With McDonald’s
McDonald's U.K. wants to engage with customers in a dialogue about the business. They want to know what people think, to encourage questions and provide answers...
‘Always On’ Execs Are Happier, More Productive
Always being on call apparently gives high level executives more control of their lives and is actually good for them. So says research by advertising agency an...
U.K. Suppliers May Get Protection From Retailers
A new Grocery Code Adjudicator may level the British playing field, ensuring supermarkets can't "scrap arrangements with suppliers at the drop of a hat," accord...
Managers Overestimating Staff’s Love
If you're a manager, you may have great ideas and a good opinion of the ways in which you communicate them to staff. If you're one of those staff members, your ...
FDA’s New Wrinkle on Nanotech Research
Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said in the past that it doesn't believe nanotechnology is "inherently unsafe," there are still questions ov...
Apps Deliver Food Answers in Stores
It's more about transparency than ever. Abbreviations, codes, scientific obfuscation can instantly be explained with a simple mobile swipe. All you need is the ...