Comment: Surprise Co-op claim confirms UK gloom
By: Dean Best | 30 August 2011
Every now and then, while commuting into work, a business headline comes onto the radio that stops you in your tracks and, last week, the stark comments from The Co-operative Group's chief executive on trading in the UK stopped us in our tracks.
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Every now and then, while commuting into work, a business headline comes onto the radio that stops you in your tracks and, last week, the stark comments from The Co-operative Group's chief executive on trading in the UK stopped us in our tracks.
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