Shoppers become ‘patriotic’ about local supermarkets (photo by Terry Murden) Rab McNeil’s Week Poor old Sainsbury’s seems to be suffering in the Supermarket Wars, thanks to competition from German invaders Aldi and Lidl. The old, established chain is shedding 2,000 jobs in an attempt to cut costs by £500 million. Like most people, I have a […]
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How to be a rebel: eat chocolate and stay healthy
Rab McNeil’s Week Here’s a bit of careers advice: get into chocolate. It’s never going to go away, even when the mad, mid-market papers keep telling you that it’s bad for you and makes your hair pick up signals from outer space. Healthy chocolate is the holy grail and, if press reports are correct, Glasgow-based […]
All in all, Lego’s just another brick in the wall
Rab McNeil’s Week: Sad to see that Lego is suffering a downturn and shedding 1,400 staff. I say that even though I detest Lego from the bottom of my heart. Well, that’s putting it a bit strongly. Let’s strike a moderate tone here and just say I believe the toy bricks concept to be profoundly […]
Even Google can’t make up for our DIY failure
Rab McNeil’s Week Top readers among you may recall that, a couple of years ago, the head of one of the big (or formerly big) DIY chains claimed that the sector was failing because of an influx of eastern Europeans who, for some reason, can fix, build and maintain anything, in a way that we […]
How I lost my way in the corridors of power
Rab McNeil’s Week I like to keep abreast of developments at the old Scotsman building on Edinburgh’s North Bridge, where I spent many years in grinding toil leavened by moral relativism and existential doubt. Here, I first discovered that there was no god. All that aside, we read on this very website that the old […]