All Convenience Store articles in 11 October 2008
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News
Recycling at the tillpoint
Two Budgens stores in North London have introduced a ‘recycle-at-the-till’ scheme for customers to dispose of unnecessary packaging.
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Features and analysis
Preventing violence
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has developed a toolkit to help retailers reduce the risk of work-related violence. It provides practical advice on how to conduct a risk assessment and take action to prevent or control violent incidents. It...
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Opinion
To the point
Alan Toft wants retailers to show they’re the good guys when it comes to social responsibilty
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News
Pass this on...
C-Store is calling time on proxy purchasing – where adults buy age-restricted goods for the underaged
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News
Kishor outlines Nisa priorities
The new chairman of Nisa’s symbol group committee has set out his stall to make the fascia much more widely recognised as “a great place to shop locally”.
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News
Local shops vital in helping to reduce shopping miles
Convenience stores have a vital role to play in a more sustainable food delivery system, retailers have heard. Speaking at the ACS Environment Forum in Manchester, Tom MacMillan of the Food Ethics Council said that UK shoppers now travel a total of...
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News
Too hot to handle?
Selling hot food can be hugely profitable but it has to be handled carefully. Tracy West reports
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News
Girl power
An empty c-store was too much temptation for entrepreneurs Angie Stevenson and Sharon Butler. Aidan Fortune follows their first steps in the retail industry
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Opinion
Think tank: Singing the priases of locally produced food
Georgina Wild of HIM sings the praises of locally-produced food and offers retailers some advice
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News
Web portal makes IT easier
Costcutter is launching a new internet resource for retailers where they can view their invoice history, benchmark their sales and download information about legislation and store operations. Called My Costcutter, the service has been trialled with...
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News
Groups make a difference locally
Nisa-Today’s and Costcutter’s Making a Difference – Locally campaign is on target to raise more than £1.5m for members’ chosen local charities in its first year.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Friend or foe? Entrapment never used to be a police tactic
No one likes to take on the police. You want them to be Britain’s finest, on your side, fighting the villains. But they sure as hell ain’t perfect and here’s a really horrible story to prove it. Raj Patel, Leeds, rang to complain...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Sting in the tale – picking on the softer targets
And how about this one? Vijay Patel runs The Paper Shop in London’s Holborn, a district I happen to know well. Camden Council (notorious in many ways to us Londoners) sent in a tall 15-year-old boy to test purchase. “It’s cheating,” protests Vijay, “...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Like fine wine…it has taken years to perfect this software
I am still on the epos subject as John Middleton, of ShopEase Retail Software, broadens it a little. He says: “We have sold news agency software since the early eighties, which will operate on any up-to-date PC and does not require a link to epos.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: There’s software galore to manage the news for you
In our last issue Budhu Mal wondered if I knew of a software package that he could use to manage his newspapers and magazines. He wanted something he could load onto a laptop that would do all the price changes, holiday stops and starts and so on...
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News
Sweet deal for Mars
The creation of the world’s largest confectionery company is now complete following the acquisition of Wrigley by Mars. According to Euromonitor data, the enlarged company will now account for 14.4% of worldwide confectionery sales, leapfrogging...
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News
Waitrose’s c-store plan
Waitrose has revealed that Trinity Square, Nottingham will be the home of its first convenience store. The 5,815sq ft outlet is due to open on December 11 opposite the city’s John Lewis department store. It will feature a self-service food...
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News
Credit crisis halts retail expansion
Independent retailers have lost faith in the banking sector following the government’s multi-billion bail-out plan and fear tougher lending conditions will prevent business expansion.
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Product News
Run for cover: The debate over cover prices is dividing newsagents
The debate over cover prices is dividing newsagents, as Dave Visick discovers
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News
Council vetoes ‘ugly’ shutters
The owners of a store in Southport, Lancashire have had to remove their £2,000 shutter system and replace it with plywood boards after falling foul of local planning rules which say security systems must look ‘attractive’. Ken Wilkins and Martin Bos...