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Sticky Learning Lunches #4: Use Your New-Found Time Productively Whilst Working From Home Get the secret to having laser-like on your productivity with episode 4 of the Sticky Learning Lunches. You Can Read the Full Transcript Below: Nathan Simmonds: Good afternoon everybody. Slight technical hitch and we still made it at one and a half minutes, just over the start time. So we are just getting pre...

Sticky Learning Lunches #3: 3 Principles to Know What to Wear When You Are Working From Home Understand the ‘3 Wardrobe Principles’ to make it easy to know what to wear when you are working from home. Use your time working from home to become the very best version of yourself. You Can Read the Full Transcript Below: Nathan Simmonds: Good afternoon everyone. We're just waiting for a few people to t...

Sticky Learning Lunch #2: How to Overcome Isolation When Cabin Fever is Starting to Take Hold Understand the 3 stages of isolation and how to overcome them, when cabin fever is starting to take hold. Use your time working from home to become the very best version of yourself. You Can Read the Full Transcript Below: Nathan Simmonds: Amazing. Welcome everybody. I'm just watching the screen on the ri...

Sticky Learning Lunches #1: How to Be More Productive Whilst Working From Home Find out how to manage yourself better with 'M' - The first of 7 best practices from the M.I.N.D.S.E.T model for working remotely and how to be more productive whilst working from home. You Can Read the Full Transcript Below: Nathan Simmonds: Amazing. So we're just, we're a couple of minutes early, we're just seeing who...

Grocery Guru Ep#27: Nett Revenue Management and How it Relates to Supermarkets Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the twenty-seventh episode which is about What is Nett Revenue Management? And how it relates to supermarkets. Plus, where did NRM come from, and how can it be used. They also share their NRM Pyramid model. You Can Read the Full What is Nett Revenue Management Episode Transcript...

Grocery Guru Episode #26: Discussing Sainsbury's Preliminary Results with Covid Costs of £485m Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the twenty-sixth episode of the Grocery Guru Discussing Sainsbury's Preliminary Results with Covid Costs of £485m, digital sales doubling, and 1,900 innovative products to be launched. You Can Read the Full Issa Brothers Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith:...

Grocery Guru Ep25: Issa Brothers Buy Leon & Cafe Nero to Grab the Electric Car Market For EG Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the twenty-fifth episode of the Grocery Guru discussing the Issa Brothers buying Leon and Cafe Nero to grab the electric car market. You Can Read the Full Issa Brothers Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Well, hello and welcome to episode 25 of the Grocery G...

Grocery Guru 24: Tesco Romping Ahead of Aldi in Kantar's Market Share Results 12 Week March 21 Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the twenty-fourth episode of the Grocery Guru discussing how Tesco is romping ahead of Aldi in Kantar's market share results. You Can Read the Full Tesco and Aldi Market Share Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to this week's weekly grocery guru wi...

Grocery Guru Ep 23: A Partnership Between Tesco and BMW - The Every Little Helps Car. Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the twenty-third episode of the Grocery Guru discussing the partnership between Tesco and BMW to launch the Every Little Helps car. The BMW Series 1 ELH. You Can Read the Full Tesco and BMW Partnership Episode Transcript Below: Darren A Smith : Welcome to the weekly episod...

Grocery Guru Ep 22: Retailer Results Season - Will they be Requiring Monies? Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the twenty-second episode of Grocery Guru discussing Retailer Results Season and many of the retailers who are coming to their year-end and negotiations will be tough. You Can Read the Full Retailer Results Season Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to the weekly epi...

Grocery Guru Episode 21: Hagglebots and Fishing Grenades Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the twenty-first episode of Grocery Guru discussing supermarkets using Hagglebots and Fishing Grenades You Can Read the Full Hagglebots and Fishing Grenades Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Hello. You're here with us on episode 21 with the Grocery Guru. Andrew, our grocery guru, how are you?...

Grocery Guru Ep 20: Morrisons' Preliminary Results Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the twentieth episode of Grocery Guru discussing Morrisons' Preliminary Results for the 52 weeks to 31st January 2021. You Can Read the Full Morrisons' Preliminary Results Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to episode 20 of our weekly chat with the Grocery Guru that is Andrew Grant. Andrew,...

Episode 19: Amazon Fresh Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the nineteenth episode of Grocery Guru. Today, the topic of discussion is the new Amazon Fresh store in Ealing, London and its innovative new checkoutless and frictionless operation. You Can Read the Full Amazon Fresh Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to episode 19 with the Grocery Guru, that is Andrew Grant. Andrew...

Grocery Guru Ep 18: Discussing the New Normal and Impending Supermarket War Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the eighteenth episode of Grocery Guru. Today, the discussion focusses on the new normal and preparing for a fierce supermarket war. Forecasting budgets will be very hard, and the only certainty is uncertainty. You Can Read the Full Supermarket War Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith:...

Grocery Guru Ep17: Micro Fulfilment Centres Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the seventeenth episode of Grocery Guru discussing micro fulfilment centres and the 15-minute ordering window. A new breed of start-ups competing with Amazon to take your order and deliver within 15-minutes. You Can Read the Full Micro Fulfilment Centres Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Hello, and welcom...

Grocery Guru Ep16: Using Shopper Language Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the sixteenth episode of Grocery Guru: The Importance of Using Shopper Language in your category. Not using industry terms or category terms because they are creating the buffer for what should be created. By eradicating industry terminology you will discover opportunities to communicate better with your shopper and...

Grocery Guru Ep15: Purchase Decision Hierarchy Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the fifteenth episode of Grocery Guru. This episode discusses the purchase decision hierarchy, shopper map, analytic hierarchy process, and consumer decision tree... Whatever you call it, understanding how the shopper shops is key to category performance. You Can Read the Full Purchase Decision Hierarchy Episod...

Grocery Guru Ep14: Range Reviews and Resets Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the fourteenth episode of Grocery Guru: Discussing Range Reviews and Range Resets. You Can Read the Full Range Reviews and Resets Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to episode 14 of the Grocery Guru with Andrew Grant. Andrew, how are you? Andrew Grant: Hi, Darren. Good, good. Thank you. You? Darren...

Grocery Guru Ep13: The Basic Principles of Negotiating Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the thirteenth episode of Grocery Guru: The Basic Principles of Negotiating and the Squredance. You Can Read the Full Principles of Negotiating Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to week 13 of the Grocery Guru, and we are with Andrew Grant. Andrew, hello. Andrew Grant: Good morning, Darr...

Grocery Guru Ep 12: Tesco Christmas Q3 Results Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the twelfth episode of Grocery Guru: Tesco Christmas Q3 Results - 80% of sales in large stores are through Clubcard. You Can Read the Full Tesco Christmas Results Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to week 12 with The Grocery Group. It is Andrew Grant. Andrew, hello. How are you doing? Andrew Gr...

Grocery Guru Episode 11: Grocery Sales Christmas 2020: Who Are the Winners and the Turkeys? Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the eleventh episode of Grocery Guru: Are there any Christmas Turkey Leftovers? It's that time of the year where we get to reflect upon the results of the Christmas 2020 trading period. Who were the winners and who were the turkeys when we take a look at the Christma...

Episode 31 – Leading Organisational Change: Interview with Jackie Lanham Jackie Lanham is Hilton Food Group's Chief People Officer, with a career history that tells a story of leading change in all its forms to help businesses to achieve their goals. It comprises of 3 key phases: HR Generalist and Business Partner covering all aspects of HR. Large leadership roles establishing and running HR centr...

Grocery Guru Podcast | Episode 10 - Good Riddance 2020! Our Predictions for 2021... Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith from MBMB in the tenth episode of Grocery Guru about 2021 Predictions. You Can Read the Full 2021 Predictions Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Welcome to episode 10, with the Grocery Guru that is Andrew Grant. How are you? Andrew Grant: Hello Darren. Yes, Merry Christ...

Grocery Guru Episode 9: The Three Ghosts of Christmas Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the eighth episode of Grocery Guru: The Three Ghosts of Christmas; Past, Present and Future. You Can Read The Full Three Ghosts of Christmas Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: Hello. Welcome to episode nine of the Grocery Guru. We're here with Andrew Grant. Andrew Grant: Hi, Darren. Darren A. Smi...

Grocery Guru Ep8: The Future of High Street Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the eighth episode of Grocery Guru: The Future of High Street. You Can Read the Full Future of High Street Episode Transcript Below: Darren A. Smith: ... keeping their staff safe, understanding the rules, blah, blah, blah. You're right. They've done it. Do you say they were cajoled into doing this? Andrew Grant: W...