All Convenience Store articles in 18 July 2009 – Page 2

  • Opinion

    Down to you

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    David Visick says tobacco retailers have a chance to take their future into their own hands

  • Product News

    Dorito's hidden flavour

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Doritos has launched a mystery flavour competition, challenging consumers to identify the latest limited-edition variant in the range.

  • Product News

    Stocklines: Dogs' dinners

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Mars Petcare has relaunched the Pedigree range under the 'Good honest food' banner. The core range has had a packaging redesign with a new logo and bolder images. In addition, all the meat used in the dog food is now traceable back to the farm it...

  • News

    MPs demand POs get more services

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Government must do more to help local post offices, says a new report by the Business and Enterprise Select Committee. Post Offices - Securing Their Future, an investigation of the Post Office network and the role it plays in communities,...

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: A pressing problem - solved!

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Mollie Ingrey emailed from Stanton St John Village Shop in Oxfordshire with a solution to Khalid Khawada's wrinkled ATM notes.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Is there such a thing as no risk?

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    As if news wholesaler Dawson News didn't have enough clouds hanging over it, now retailers have complained about Tactic Games.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Railroading the retailers off their pitch

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Hurendra Bhatt, who has run a kiosk outside Highbury & Islington underground for the past 20 years, is being screwed by Network Rail.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Stamp theft is a sticky situation

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    You would think you could trust the Post Office to deliver Royal Mail books of stamps to your shop safely, wouldn't you? I mean if they can't do it, who can?

  • Product News

    Good old days

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    United Biscuits has repackaged its Brannigans crisps range - drawing inspiration from the original brown paper packaging. The move is designed to satisfy consumer demand for nostalgia. The range is available in roast beef & mustard and smoked ham &...

  • Product News

    Real quality, Real Crisps

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Real crisps has unveiled a new-look pack - the first time the range has been repackaged since its launch eight years ago.

  • Features and analysis

    Counterfeit criminals are going unchecked

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    A lack of action by many UK councils and Trading Standards on counterfeiting and piracy is giving criminal gangs a free rein, a leading coalition of retail trade associations and enforcement organisations has claimed.

  • News

    Stocklines: Pick and chews

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Walkers Nonsuch is now offering its 12 varieties of twistwrap toffees in 2.5kg bulk bags for pick and mix. The sweets are wrapped in metallised wax paper film, which ensures that they keep their shape and freshness, while remaining eye-catching. The...

  • News

    Sea Change: Nisa Local, Scarborough

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Daniel Wilson found setting up his third store on the coast was a world apart from his first ventures. Sarah Britton reports

  • News

    Campaign update: The real villains exposed

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Our campaign to see the law changed to stop adults buying cigarettes for children has highlighted what many retailers believe is the true route of supply to under-18s.

  • News

    Drinks trade unites for health campaign

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    A £100m advertising campaign to alert the public to the dangers of binge drinking launches in September with the support of drinks suppliers and retailers. Backed by the Department of Health, the Campaign for Smarter Drinking will feature the...

  • Product News

    Fridge Raiders' hunger busters

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Fridge Raiders has extended its Bites chicken snack range with 75g 100% chicken-on-a-stick Mighty Bite.

  • Product News

    Stocklines: Sun Burst

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Capri-Sun has launched a new pack design and advertising campaign that focuses on the natural appeal of the drink. 'Nothing Artificial at all' is the new slogan that will appear on packs in time for the back-to-school season. The 330ml individual...

  • News

    Boost sales, not costs

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    Aidan Fortune visits a store where a simple shelf makeover has added to sales with no increase in costs

  • News

    Delay to Health Bill gives stores a break

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    An unexpected delay in the passage of the Health Bill through parliament has given tobacco retailers a chance to show their MPs in person how the proposed display ban would affect them.

  • News

    The big deal: The news distribution merry-go-round

    2009-07-24T00:00:00Z

    It hardly seems that the dust has settled from our last change of news wholesaler, when we switched from T Cox & Son to Dawson News, that it's all change again.