By Denis Campbell
With the formation Monday of the new Cardiff Business Partnership by several large, key employers based in and around the capital, they do seem to have strangely gone another “bridge too far.”
In a statement Tuesday on the Cardiff and Co website lauding Monday’s announcement, Chairman Bill Savage inexplicably wrote:
The Board of Cardiff & [...]

By Denis Campbell

Coincidence? You decide.

A little over 3 weeks ago we ran a UK supermarket pricing story and its accompanying photo essay in partnership with BBC Wales’ X-Ray consumer news programme.

Tesco, PLC “cherry-picked” items I discovered from the X-Ray programme and attempted to discredit my findings with a written statement to X-Ray’s producers read, as sent, [...]

With big chains reporting billions of pounds in profit for the current period, do Tesco, Sainsbury and ASDA ‘featured deals’ help or hurt recession-beleaguered consumers? Over a seven-week period, armed with a shopping list and iPhone camera, Denis Campbell checked and found in nearly every chain, so-called ‘deals’ were often not even the best available [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
United Airlines flight 921 was the outbound on 21 May. The crew was London-based, cheerful, helpful and the flight comfortably uneventful. UA 922 on 29 May was the return leg led by a US-based crew: surly, arrogant, griping, worrying aloud about job losses, lacking in decorum, full of silly and rigid rules, ridiculously [...]

…ABBA is back!  (Waterloo plays instead of Jaws ominous duh-dum theme…)
After a 16-year absence, they hold this week’s number 1 spot on the UK Pop chart thanks to the sleeper hit movie of the summer – Mama Mia!
Created from the West End and Broadway stage musical where a young woman invites three men one of [...]

Most consider it an honour to be pilloried by Mad Magazine’s “Usual Bunch of Idiots.” Everyone from the current Dark Night Batman movie to Harry Potter has been skewered by their classic satiric style. It’s good fun. That is until Al and friends messed with the gang at Circuit City.
One could not, until noon today, [...]

The BBC reported a Missouri, USA car dealership offered a promotion where if one buys a car or truck, they can get either $250 in petrol vouchers or a free handgun. UK laws forbidding gun ownership aside for the moment, if they were to change, could this be a marketing opportunity for businesses in the [...]

(Reprise Article) 
The Tesco, Sainsbury and ASDA chains have all recently attempted to jump on the green bandwagon. Turning out lights at night, offering replacement re-useable bags for plastic and other small but visible steps to help become more carbon neutral. The question on this Earth Day is

A centrepiece of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s environmental policy is the active building and promotion of so-called Eco-towns, specially designated areas of land upon which specially designed zero carbon footprint ecologically smart homes, schools and retail establishments will rest. Green projects have attracted enormous investor interest but the six-month long collapse of the home mortgage [...]

British shopping institution Marks & Spencer lost 25% of its share value yesterday when its Executive Chairman Sir Stuart Rose announced that due to a lack of consumer confidence, same period store sales were down 5.3% and revenues for the full calendar year would fall by 20%. It must be really bad if people have [...]