Continent

I'm coming to you live from the Fusion podcast booth on the morning of day two of NRF's Retail Big Show Europe in Paris.

Joining me now is the head of e-commerce at Sonai MC and Continente.

And we're going to unpick how all these different bits of the business fit together.

Guillaume, Guillaume, can you start by introducing yourself?

Good morning.

Good morning, everyone.

I'm Guilherme Cardoso and I lead e-commerce for Continente.

Continente is Portugal's largest grocery retailer.

After an unusually hot, dry time with record-breaking high temperatures, we've seen the effects of drought, albeit slightly in Northern Ireland.

England, south of England at any rate, and the Continent have had it much worse, as have many other countries.

And for once, many have actually welcomed the rain.

Well, for a while anyway.

The house always wins, but the most romantic story in European football is still alive.

Welcome to On the Continent, your definitive guide to the week in European football.

I'm Andy Brassell.

And I'm Archie Rhind-Tutt.

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Well, with, with, with Elversberg, it's all about the climb, and with that in mind, I do remind you when you go to cover your first game there, don't forget the Timberlands and, uh, your guide rope.

Thanks for joining us as always, Archie, and thank you for joining us on On the Continent.

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In ten thirty-seven, he managed to seize control over England while his half-brother Harthacnut was still in Denmark dealing with Scandinavian rivalries.

Yet when the Norman queen Emma had already married both Æthelred and later Cnut, she positioned her son Harthacnut as heir in the English line, thereby creating a second faction that contested Harold’s claim from the Continent.

This split between native versus foreign claimants was crucial to understanding why England drifted toward fragmentation.

And we have to keep Emma of Normandy in mind, too.

[gentle music] Welcome to On the Continent, your definitive guide to the week in European football.

I'm Dotun Adebayo.

I'm Andy Brassell.

Um, it does feel like it maybe needs a team to just rise that bit longer, and maybe there is potential in Monaco, especially given the, the way they do seem to have got back to this idea of creating a bit of a, kind of a, a workable, uh, business idea in terms of being willing to sell promising players but keep it going, 'cause obviously, uh, Kamara was expected to go at the end of the window, um, but didn't.

And that's a wrap for this episode.

Thank you for listening to On the Continent, but you can join us again tomorrow where Andy and Larsh will be reacting to tonight's Champions League games.

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Andy, as always, thank you.

So for Nick to, uh, say that he thinks that he knows what, uh, Churchill would have said in, um, 2016, all he has to do is look at what Churchill actually did say in 1946 and 1948, um, and, uh, conclude the exact opposite.

Was Churchill's thinking in line with that of de Gaulle? De Gaulle famously said the Anglo-Saxon way is a different way of government and of, of economics from what we practice here on the Continent.

Yeah.

He didn't want Britain to join the European, uh, the common market as it was then either.

No.

Well, he said non famously in 1961, and also, um, uh, the day before I was born in, uh, January 1963, he also said non.

And, um, and his thinking and what he made, uh, quite clear, it went back to a conversation he'd had with Churchill in the, um, in Churchill's train the day before D-Day, when Churchill had said to him, um, "Nothing will get between my friendship, uh, between, you are not going to be allowed to get, um, in between my friendship with, um, with, uh, FDR, and any time that Britain has to choose between the Continent and the open sea," i.e., between France and America, "um, we will choose the open sea." And, uh, the open sea can also, of course, um, in Churchill's mind mean the Commonwealth, um, the, uh, Australia, Canada, and so on.

But what, what he's essentially saying and told de Gaulle to de Gaulle's, uh, fury, who, uh, uh, de Gaulle was, was angry all that day because he hadn't been told about D-Day until the day before.