All Convenience Store articles in 23 October 2010
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News
Tesco wins Sheringham store war
A bitter 14-year battle by small shopkeepers to keep Tesco out of the Norfolk town of Sheringham has been lost by a hair's breadth. To the bitter disappointment of residents and local businesses who opposed the application, North Norfolk...
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News
Guilty verdict given to Gurmail killers
Two men have been found guilty of the murder of retailer Gurmail Singh, who died defending his c-store earlier this year. Muawaz Khalid and Nabeel Shafi attacked Gurmail at his Cowcliffe store in Huddersfield during a robbery in...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Out of space? Here’s a new sweetener from Mars
Kamlesh Patel from Fulford Road PO and KP Newsagents, Hartcliffe, Bristol, says he used to regularly get £16 reward vouchers from Mars for following a planogram, but lately it had halved (and that was after he negotiated it up from £6 to £8). The...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: The final note on music licences
Many of you have called both the helpline and the C-Store office querying our legal guide's view on PPL/PRS licences for in-store music (C-Store October 1, p28). There was an error in the copy. Contrary to what was stated, you do indeed...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Get out your stopwatch
Some councils must give their officials magnifying glasses. In September, someone from the council arrived at Minaxy Patel's store Dayatri News in Eastbourne, East Sussex at 6.45am and questioned one of the news delivery boys standing outside. He...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Where’s the sting in the tale?
Jas Dhesi, who runs Dhesi Stores, has sent me a cutting from his local Tamworth Herald about a series of police and Trading Standards operations at four locations across the town to stop adults buying alcohol for children. In one area it took...
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NewsFriendly Faces: Customer service at David Sands
The team at David Sands knows that the best possible customer service and a strong local sourcing policy are the group’s most important assets.
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Product NewsChoc full: Thorntons creation of chilled desserts
A range of Thorntons-branded chilled desserts has been created. The nine sweet treats include: Double Toffee & Vanilla Mousse; Double Chocolate & Vanilla Mousse; Toffee Secret Centre; Chocolate Secret Centre; Sticky Double Toffee Pudding;...
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Products In DepthCash in: Velvet's on-pack instant-win promotion for Triple Velvet
Velvet has launched an on-pack instant-win promotion for Triple Velvet as part of a £3m marketing campaign for the brand. The Triple Velvet Money Tree promotion directs customers to a website where they are asked to enter a code found on the pack…
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Products In DepthCash in: Tinned food
Tinned food may have some heavy competition, but it’s still a category in growth. Tracy West urges retailers to give it the respect it deserves
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News
Today’s Group builds for a strong tomorrow
Today's Group managing director Bill Laird has outlined a positive vision of the future of the group and the wholesale industry despite the challenging times. Speaking to Convenience Store shortly after the group's Suppliers and Members...
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BlogEditor’s comment: Cut crime, not budgets; Cider rules
The new government's spending review is the great debate of the day, and with good reason. With £80bn to be cut from government spending across four years, it's not just those who work in the public sector who will feel it. One way or another, it will affect us all...
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Features and analysis
Zero Tolerance: Broken promises - can you slash police budgets and fight retail crime?
The government has pledged to fight retail crime and support store workers while at the same time slashing police budgets. Can it do both?
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Product News
Oh, yes it is: Britvic's panto campaign returns
Britvic's panto campaign returns this year with a karaoke twist. The entire Robinsons range features packaging that encourages families to go online and make a three-minute karaoke panto that people can sponsor, with proceeds going to Barnardo's....
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News
Smart facts: Classic brands dominate the soup sector
If you are not stocking the traditional favourites in ambient soup, you're missing out
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Product News
Illicit tobacco traders get the boot
Thousands of illegally-imported cigarettes and large quantities of rolling tobacco were seized from traders during a HMRC blitz on one of Wolverhampton's largest car boot sales last week. Traders at the 'Rabbit Run' car boot sale were...
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Product NewsOn your marks: Nestlé puts best-selling brands in pricemarked packs
Nestlé has launched some of its best-selling brands in pricemarked packs (PMPs). Toffee Crisp, Aero Peppermint medium, Aero Peppermint Bubbles, Kit Kat four-finger milk, Kit Kat Chunky milk and Yorkie milk are available now with a 45p flash. It says…
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News
Londis is fresher than ever before
Sales of fresh produce through Londis stores have soared by almost 50% in the past year as quality, availability and lead times improved. Trading director Willie Hamilton said that more than 1,300 Londis stores were now stocking fresh...
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Products In DepthCash in: Cereal growth - cereal bars
Cereal bar manufacturers have had to work hard to keep their success going and, as Aidan Fortune finds out, they aren’t stopping their efforts yet
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News
Taskforce to unite shops and banks
Retailers can hope for better working relationships with their banks after the Bank Task Force laid out 17 new actions designed to restore lost faith in lenders. Commitments laid out by the recently formed taskforce of high street banks...