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  • One in four shoppers witness physical or verbal abuse of shop staff

  • Retail crime cost Scottish retailers almost £20,000 per store last year

  • Hartlepool retailer stripped of license after ‘dangerous vodka’ found on open sale

  • NewstrAid appoints Paul Bacon as operations manager

  • Evri responds to retailers who say they’ll lose hundreds a year as volume bonus is cut

  • Bestway to empower retailers with new social media initiative

  • JW Filshill achieves pledge to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 five years ahead of target

  • £500k worth of illegal tobacco discovered in storage unit

  • Slush drinks should be banned for under eights, BMJ suggests

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Country Choice adds two new lines to Easter offering

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Country Choice has added two new products to its Easter range for 2025

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Pepsi becomes exclusive soft drink provider for Vue

2025-03-14T09:54:00+00:00

PepsiCo and Vue have signed a five-year deal 

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Staropramen launches new ‘Fridge Pack’

2025-03-14T09:39:00+00:00

The new multipack will roll out from 17 March

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Cadbury unveils Lotus Biscoff Dairy Milk chocolate bar

2025-03-14T00:17:00+00:00

The NPD would ‘tap consumer interest in new flavours and textures, and drive cross-brand excitement’ said Mondelez

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  • Councils unprepared for retailer licensing scheme to sell tobacco, vapes and nicotine

  • One in four shoppers witness physical or verbal abuse of shop staff

  • Hartlepool retailer stripped of license after ‘dangerous vodka’ found on open sale

  • NewstrAid appoints Paul Bacon as operations manager

  • Retail crime cost Scottish retailers almost £20,000 per store last year

  • Evri responds to retailers who say they’ll lose hundreds a year as volume bonus is cut

  • Bestway to empower retailers with new social media initiative

  • GroceryAid Ball raises £717,267 for charity

  • JW Filshill achieves pledge to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 five years ahead of target

  • £500k worth of illegal tobacco discovered in storage unit