All Convenience Store articles in 20 August 2005 – Page 2

  • Features and analysis

    Curse of the tobacco touts

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    A Tobacco Alliance survey has found that 35% of store owners are aware of fake tobacco products being sold in their area.

  • Features and analysis

    Crime

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    A teenage c-store worker in Leicestershire was forced to the ground and grabbed around the neck during an attempted robbery.

  • Features and analysis

    Tesco’s own cop shop

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Police have set up home in a Tesco c-store’s back office in a bid to combat anti-social behaviour in Dorset.

  • News

    Clubbing together

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    United Co-operatives is living up to its image as a ‘community retailer’ with an initiative to get children to eat a healthy breakfast.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Did you claim your licensing rights on time?

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    This magazine’s research suggests that up to 25% of c-stores didn’t make the August 6 deadline. Frightening figures.

  • Product News

    Rising to the challenge

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    There’s money to be made in the bakery category, so why are so many customers put off from buying bread at c-stores?

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Here’s a scam masquerading as a worthy police campaign.

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    This is the old familiar drugs awareness publication aimed at schools. Peter Smith, who runs Sutton Benger Post Office near Chippenham in Wiltshire, was approached a year or so ago by a rep selling space on behalf of Wiltshire Police for a booklet to be circulated to schools to prevent ...

  • News

    Budgens runs out of patience

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Budgens has withdrawn proposals to build a 500sq m store in a Norfolk seaside town, blaming the local district council for indecision over planning consent.

  • News

    The future looks bright

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    New research shows that Convenience Store’s readers are feeling more than a little confident about their businesses and are planning to invest in new fixtures and product ranges. David Rees gets behind the figures.

  • News

    Boom time for c-stores

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    UK retailers are optimistic about the future, prepared to invest in new shop fittings and product ranges and are embracing convenience trading more than ever before, according to new research findings from Convenience Store.

  • Product News

    Bake off

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Cuisine de France has added a handheld breakfast snack to its Pierre’s range.

  • News

    Awards boon for Mills team

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    The Mills Group is launching annual employee awards in a bid to boost performance across its estate of 31 CTNs and 51 c-stores.

  • Product News

    Spotlight on Ava strawberries

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    The Ava strawberry variety is grown by Scottish family growers Angus Soft Fruits, which has spent the last five years perfecting the fruit.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Can anyone recommend a decent shopfitter?

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    Kash Patel has been trying to find one as his Holy Lane post office and newsagent needs a complete refit to bring it up to a better standard – one suited to its green and pleasant location in a tranquil bit of Cliftonville in Kent, complete with a super sea view.

  • Features and analysis

    NFRN call for more action on crime

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    The National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN) has called on the government to do more to protect small businesses after a survey showed that 28% of small stores had suffered at least one crime.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Here’s a useful little tip about your tax.

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    I’m passing this on although I have no idea what the ramifications may be as, although I am self-employed, I do not personally have any staff (which I realise is a rather mixed blessing).

  • News

    Mills looks set to top £100m mark

    2005-08-26T00:00:00Z

    The Mills Group is expected to break through the £100m turnover mark for the first time at the end of its financial year on January 31, 2006.