Get your act together, crappy local shops – and stop moaning about Tesco
Enough with the whingeing, local shops. The supermarkets are stealing your customers? I don’t think so. Tesco aren’t rustling up shoppers, plonking economy bin bags over their heads and chucking them...
View ArticleGoodbye, online Nanny Supermarket – I want control over my weekly shop
So, the much trumpeted boom in internet supermarket sales turned out to be more of a squawk, peaking at just over 3 per cent of total food sales over the last few years. And according to research by...
View ArticleA 14-day sandwich is no sandwich at all
A sandwich that lasts two weeks is no sandwich at all. The statement from Steve Fox, the sales director of retail at Booker, says it all. “With a longer shelf life than most sandwiches, they are ideal...
View ArticleThe middle classes think automated checkouts are beneath them. Actually,...
The middle classes hate automatic checkouts. They claim it is because the supermarket machines are too impersonal, or because they never work. But these are just excuses. The real reason is obvious:...
View ArticleBritish asparagus in autumn – more choice, or a blow against seasonality?
Clever old Marks and Spencers have announced that, using some smart methods and a variety they discovered in the Mediterranean, they’ll be selling British Asparagus from September to November. Now, I...
View ArticleThis week pheasant and chips, next week fried pigeon please
Game on. A fish and chip shop in Norfolk has branched out, so that the residents of Wells-next-the-Sea can pick up pheasant goujons with chips instead of the usually battered cod for their tea. Marcus...
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