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Blunders : “Tesco’s handling of Twitter is neigh joke” / Paul Sutton

Tesco are giving treble points on your Clubcard for all burgers and petrol, starting Monday.The deal is called Only Fuel and Horses. — Will Corry (@slievemore) January 20, 2013 Will Corry‘s insight:  Get to the Tesco special offers quickly. They

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Blunders : ‘Boots presents a family image – since when did it turn into Ann Summers?’.. Alison Savory

A disgusted mother is boycotting high street chemist Boots after she found her children playing with a sex toy near the checkouts. Alison Savory wrote to Boots chief executive Alex Gourlay after her sons, aged six and eight, picked up

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Comment on the M&S Q3 trading results / John Oswald, Business Design Lead at Fjord

You may have seen the news this morning that Marks and Spencer announced its Q3 trading results. Key findings: Overall sales were down 1.8% Food business reports like-for-like sales from stores open more than a year up 0.3% Sales from

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Blunders : Sale sacks social media chief – she described fans as “absolute f***wits”

Rugby Union club Sale Sharks has confirmed that it has sacked its social media executive after she described the clubs fans as “absolute f*@kwits” on her Facebook page.

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Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily, his much-trumpeted iPad newspaper

Murdoch closes iPad paper The Daily – Rupert doesn’t really get new media does he? By Stephen Foster on December 3, 2012 Fairly fresh from losing over $500m on MySpace, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily,

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