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Eco-Labeling: The Critical Questions to Ask

Andrew Winston | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Sustainability Consortium, Tesco, Eco-Label, Carbon-Labeling, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Carbon Footprint, Green Labels, Eco Labeling, Eco-Friendly Products, Green News

Will we see the day when all products carry environmental labels with data on carbon emissions and other impacts? Recent news tells us a definitive... maybe.

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10 Retailers With The Most Sales Worldwide

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.05.2012

Read More: Retailers, Tesco, European Debt Crisis, Sears, Global Recession, Holiday Shopping, Eurozone, Kmart, Retail Sales, Lehman Brothers, Carrefour, Home Depot, Business News

Regardless of the number of mom and pops around the world, a small number of retailers continue to dominate the industry as a whole. Of the top 25...

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Buffett: 'Major Flaw' In Euro System Can't Be Solved By Words Alone

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Tesco, European Debt Crisis, Video, Olympus, Ibm, Tungaloy Corp, Bank of America, Euro Zone, Warren Buffett, 'Oracle of Omaha', Business News

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Europe's debt crisis had shown up a "major flaw" in the 17-member euro zone system and it would take more...

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Tesco Price Cuts Set To Trigger Competitive Reductions

PA | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Pa, Tesco, Household Goods, Tesco Prices, Consumer Price Cuts, Consumer Price War, UK Economy, Home News

The UK's biggest supermarket, Tesco, has thrown down the gauntlet to its rivals after unveiling a Â£500 million price-cutting campaign. ...

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Technicolor Cauliflower For Veggie-Resistant Kids

Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Tesco, Tesco Cauliflower Rainbow Packs, Tesco Rainbow Packs, Technicolor Cauliflower, Brightly Colored Cauliflower, Food News

Tesco, the biggest British supermarket, has just announced a new strategy for getting kids to eat vegetables: make them more colorful. According to th...

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Virtual Supermarket Allows South Koreans To Shop In Subways With Their Phones

Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Tesco, Supermarket, Virtual Supermarket, Supermarkets, South Korea Supermarkets, South Korea Virtual Supermarkets, Tesco Homeplus, Virtual Supermarkets, Food News

Mega supermarket chain Tesco has designed a virtual supermarket in South Korea in hopes to gain more business than its competitor E-Mart. According to...

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A Beacon for a Green Future

Andy Atkins | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: Tesco, David Cameron, England, Friends of the Earth, Climate Change, Green Industry, Emissions, Shell, Green News

It's refreshing to see the UK step in and re-establish international leadership on climate change. The target to halve our emissions by 2025 is the most ambitious in the world.

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Banksy's New 'Bomb' Art Protests UK Big Box Chain

thisisbristol.co.uk | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: UK, Tesco, Stokes Croft, Mild Mild West, Support, Riots, Art, Controversy, Tescho Bottle, Bristol, Street Art, Stencils, Graffiti, Petrol Bomb, Banksy, Poster, Arts News

Bristol graffiti artist Banksy has launched a fighting fund for rioters protesting against a new supermarket on Cheltenham Road – by selling a poste...

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Supermarket Makes $25 Version Of Kate's Engagement Dress

StyleList.com | Erin Donnelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tesco, Royalty, Kate Middleton Dress Tesco, Kate Middleton Engagement Dress, Royal Wedding, Kate Middleton, Royal Wedding 2011, Style News

While the original wrap dress worn by the brunette Brit as she announced her engagement to Prince William has already sold out, UK supermarket Tesco a...

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Clear Is The New Clever: Lessons For Promoting Green Packaged Goods

Marc Stoiber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainability Index, iPhone App, Sustainable Value Networks, Goodguide, Wal-Mart, Yves Behar, Packaged Goods, CPG, Green Marketing, Innocent Smoothies, Clorox, Tesco, Advertising, Green Works, Sierra Club, Carbon Labeling, Green Claims, Business News

"Advertising is the price companies pay for being un-original." Yves Behar, speaking at TED For years I worked as a creative director in advertising...

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Glitter and Gloom: Kafka Goes to Tesco

Carmen Burcea-Haber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, Tesco, Prague, Ex-Communist Countries, Supermarkets, Capitalism, Customer Service, Czech Republic, World News

After living in Romania and Prague and observing the subtle misery, how some people hate their jobs, or because you're foreign, it seems it's going to take decades to witness a new mentality.

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UK Supermarket Tesco Helps Struggling Independent Bookshop

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Price Wars. Book Discounts, Independent Bookstores, Tesco, Bookstores, Bookselling, Grocery Stores, Supermarkets, Books, Independent Booksellers, Bestsellers, Amazon, Books News

It's no secret that, faced with cutthroat competition from the supermarkets and Amazon, independent booksellers are struggling to survive. But in a ch...

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Can Wal-Mart Think Smaller?

Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smaller Supercenters, E.F. Schumacher, Merrill Lynch, Wal-Mart, Suburbs, Tesco, Retail, Tom Shoewe, Aldi, Green Business, Sprawl, Commercial Real Estate, Business News

Wal-Mart is hinting at smaller stores. The reality: land is not available anywhere for the classic Wal-Mart supercenter, weighing in at over 200,000 square feet.

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Britain Embraces Faux Gras, An Alternative To Unethical Delicacy

Grist | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Acorn House London, Foie Gras, Faux Gras, Prince Charles Foie Gras, Raymond Blanc, Britain Foie Gras Ban, Waitrose, House of Fraser, Tesco, Britain Foie Gras, Marine Stewardship Council, Selfridges, Roger Moore, Ethical Foie Gras, Nobu Japanese Restaurant, Bluefin Tuna, Food Politics, Green News

LONDON--From foie gras produced without making birds suffer to "sustainable" fish, British retailers and restaurants are fast embracing politically co...

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Earthquake To Cost Haiti's Economy At Least 15% Of GDP

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

The earthquake in Haiti will cost the nation's economy at least 15 percent of its gross domestic product, said Pamela Cox, the World Bank's vice presi...

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Britain Bans Anti-Redhead Newspaper Ad

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tesco Redheads, Tesco, Tesco Redheads Ad, Britain, Virgin Media, World News

What do companies in Britain have against redheads? The Independent is reporting today that Britain's Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ...

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Empowering Consumers, One Square at a Time

Jeffrey B. Swartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tesco, Tesco Carbon Footprint, Green Business, Green Living, Green News

Last week, UK retailer Tesco added toilet paper to its list of more than 100 own-brand products bearing carbon labels.

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Green Edge 8 - Saving Lives on Farms in Latin America - Cultivar

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Living, Farm Workers, Dominican Republic, Pesticides, Cultivar, Cdh, Del Monte, Cede, Green Edge, Mexico, Incap, Pase, Nicaragua, State Department, Haitians, Tesco, Chiquita, Dole, San Francisco Chronicle, Fertilizers, Honduras, sa8000, U.S. Department of Labor, Usaid, Green News

The safety of U.S. food depends starts with the farms where our food is grown. Last month, congressional hearings on America's largest salmonella out...

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Grocery Store Misses Sales Target By 70 Percent

Los Angeles Times | Jerry Hirsch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tesco, U.S. Stores, Grocery Chains, Simon Uwins, Fresh & Easy, Recession, Grocery Stores, Shoppers, Business News

Fresh isn't turning out to be all that easy. With much fanfare, British retailer Tesco this fall billed its Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market chain of...

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18 Top Brit Companies Pledge To Help Curb Carbon Emissions

New York Times | JULIA WERDIGIER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reducing Carbon Emissions, Tesco, Bp, Green Britain, Carbon Emissions, BT, British Companies, Business News

Britain's largest companies are pledging to offer greener products and invest in research and technology as part of a wider push to reduce carbon emis...

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