All Convenience Store articles in 1 October 2005 – Page 4
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Features and analysis
Bid to heal crime scars
A campaign has been launched by the British Retail Consortium to push retail crime higher up the political agenda.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: News retailers and wholesalers continue to be uneasy bedfellows.
Keith Palmer emailed me with the beef that the Daily Mail was offering readers a free DVD if they picked up their copies from WHS. He wondered if this was legal.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Chocs away! Remember, customers eat with their eyes.
Here’s a story with a sweet ending. Mahendra Oza, who trades in one of London’s trendiest districts, Islington, found himself caught up in the food supply chain when a customer brought back a Snickers bar because it had turned a bit white. The date was fine: November 19, 2005. He ...
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News
Somerfield to test authorities
Somerfield is to appeal against the Competition Commission’s (CC) ruling that it has to sell 12 of the stores it recently purchased from Morrisons.
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News
Londis picks art winners
Londis has picked the 100 regional winners in its annual Bags of Talent children’s art competition for 6–12-year-olds.
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Product News
A fresh approach
The mints and gum market has been renamed the ‘mouth freshening’ category.
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News
Stocklines: Animated market
Wallace & Gromit Movie Sitcards is a new collection from Cards Inc, featuring images from the animated film Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit that rolls out across the UK from October 4.
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News
Vent red tape anger
The government is encouraging retailers to contact officials with details of business regulations that need to be scrapped.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Self-service stores will always be tempting to thieves. But are there double standards at work?
I frequently hear stories about inventive crooks. Amjad Farooq, who runs a Booker Premier at Bolton in Lancashire, offered me a good example. He has traded in the Halliwell area for 18 years and has suffered plenty of petty thievery. But this one was different. A ‘gent’ came into the ...
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News
All that Jas
Mark Wingett reports on a retailer who is determined to make a name for himself in the retail circles of his city centre.
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Product News
Stocklines: Newcastle Brown Ale
Newcastle Brown ale, from SCOTTISH COURAGE BRANDS, is being backed with a £1.5m multi-media campaign.
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News
Retailers cry foul over alco ‘sting’
Retailers in Scotland are upset at the decision to use youngsters as part of alcohol test purchases on c-stores.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: The Swiss are after European City Guide.
This will come as good news to retailers in this country who have been harassed by European City Guide (ECG), a company fingered as operating a scam by quite a few European countries. The high-profile website www.stopecg.org claims that 50,000+ businesses are fighting against bills they never expected to receive ...
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News
ACS to challenge OFT over market
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is to mount a legal challenge to the Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) decision to dismiss its request for a full investigation of the grocery market.
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News
Stocklines: cover2cover
* Business Week magazine has a one-off cover price increase from £2.75 to £3.40 for the December 16 issue, on sale December 26; Comag
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News
10 years of Dear Jac
Convenience Store’s editor Sonia Young made a special presentation last week to Dear Jac editor Jac Roper to mark 10 years of the column.
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