All Convenience Store articles in 10 October 2009
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News
Shopping local makes Nisa's summer
Shoppers are flooding back to "vibrant" local stores, says Nisa-Today's, which has seen an increase in both value and volume of sales over the past six months
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News
Don't hamper our growth, stores tell Darling
A minimum wage freeze, delayed VAT increases and a rethink of the proposed rise in National Insurance contributions are among store owners' demands put to Chancellor Alistair Darling ahead of his pre-Budget report.
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News
Red letter days
Conveience retailers Vickram Karavadra, Tony Scott, Sharon Downdney and Lesley brown explain how they make seasonal events work for them
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Features and analysis
‘Big Brother’ could protect our stores
Retailers could soon benefit from the public's obsession with reality TV, when a new 'Big Brother' style security scheme which rewards people for monitoring commercial CCTV cameras from their home computers is launched next month.
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Features and analysis
Feeling the pinch: how shoplifting is hurting your business
No matter what part of the country your store is in, shoplifting is an issue that cannot be ignored, and the problem is getting worse.
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Blog
The Big Deal
With summer over and the bills piling up with the leaves, Hastings retailer Dave Newman succumbs to the October blues
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News
Work placements - what's in it for retailers?
Over the coming months, convenience retailers can expect a flurry of students looking to pre-book work experience placements, following the government's decision to introduce the Diploma in Retail Business in September 2010.
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News
London's free paper could set the Standard
The London Evening Standard's surprise announcement that it would become a freesheet from last week could cost the capital's news vendors an estimated £25,000 a day in profit, and have a knock-on effect on the sales of other titles.
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News
David Sands grows sales and profit
New store openings and a refurbishment programme helped boost sales at Scottish convenience store group David Sands Ltd by over 20% during 2008, the company reports
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News
Counter intuition
As a rundown area where crime is rife, Chapel Langley in Luton isn't an easy place to run a convenience store.
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News
Retailers to magazine suppliers: change or be changed
Retailers of magazines believe they must be given more control over copy allocation and choice of supply if the distribution chain is to avoid a further probe by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
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News
Battery take-back schemes for 2010
The Environment Agency has issued details of the first Battery Compliance Schemes (BCSs) which will collect batteries from c-stores from February under new regulations.
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Features and analysis
Stay at home chefs look to the shelves
Dining in is still the new going out. How do conveience retailers turn the restaurants' loss into their gain?
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News
Government not convinced by grocery ombudsman
A decision on whether to appoint a grocery ombudsman will be made before the end of the year, the government has confirmed
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News
Legal action tries to overturn display ban
Marlboro maker Philip Morris International (PMI) has joined forces with an independent retailer to sue the Irish government for outlawing tobacco displays, and says it will not rule out similar action in the UK.
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News
Tories target stores with licensing laws
A Conservative government would 'tear up' the existing licensing laws and close off-licences which repeatedly sell alcohol to children, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said last week. Addressing the party's conference in Manchester,...
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Product News
Home from home
Aimed at giving those watching their weight a little taste of home comforts is a new range of frozen ready meals from Weight Watchers, inspired by British home-cooked classics. The range includes Chicken & Dumpling Casserole, Beef & Red Wine...
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News
Government ignores its own statistics, says retailer
Campaigning retailer Steve Denham says the Department of Health (DH) is using outdated data to justify targeting retailers as the source of tobacco products to children.
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Product News
Ginsters: as seen on TV
Ginsters has returned to our screens with a new advertising campaign promoting its focus on quality and forming part of its £6.5m investment in marketing for 2009.
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News
Tesco holds fire on Holmfirth store
Tesco has withrawn its application to build a 5,500sq m store in Holmfirth, Yorkshire, home of the long-running BBC series Last of the Summer Wine. The supermarket chain had applied to build the store on a site two miles outside of the...