Just Selling Beans

A look at the UK retail scene from someone who spent 20 years on the inside. Please note the opinions expressed are just that, opinions. These are my personal views and do not reflect those of my past, present or future employers.

Wednesday, 4 January 2017

2017 And All That

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As is customary at this time of year, we have a selection of direly pessimistic and overly optimistic predictions for the coming 12 months. ...

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Thursday, 13 October 2016

Unileverage In The Great Grocery Game

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For as long as I can remember, there have been big spats between manufacturers and grocers over prices. At the end of the day, it's the ...

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Asda Keep On Spinning As The Ship Sinks

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Regular readers, if there's any left since I stopped blogging so frequently, will know I've long been critical of Andy Clarke's ...

Friday, 10 April 2015

When Your World Is Shrinking, Grab What You Can

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The reaction to the latest Kantar market share data says quite a lot about of the mood of the industry at the moment. A couple of months b...

Friday, 29 August 2014

"Sod This, We Give Up" Announce Tesco

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Today's profit warning wasn't really that surprising and an initial haemoraghing of the Tesco share price was probably exaggerated b...

Thursday, 17 July 2014

Keep Your Enemies Close…

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Once I’d stopped laughing at Asda after Sainsbury’s announcing a joint venture with Netto a few weeks back, I started to applaud the move. ...

Thursday, 1 May 2014

I'm Spartacus! or Dalton Goes Large

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Now we’re talking – a proper ding-dong of a price war is underway. For us veterans of the late 1990’s price wars, it’s felt like a cold w...

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HatmanPro: I'm privileged to have worked with the top 2 UK retailers - Tesco and Asda - and am now proud to work for a leading multi-category FMCG supplier

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