All Convenience Store articles in 24 January 2020 – Page 5
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Wotsits brings back spicy and steak flavours
Wotsits is reintroducing Flamin’ Hot and Sizzling Steak flavours to its line-up after consumer demand to bring them back.
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Sterling cigarillos launched with menthol capsules
JTI has launched a new cigarillo product with a menthol capsule - Sterling Dual Capsule Leaf Wrapped
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Jamie Davison heads up new recruitment drive for Costcutter
Costcutter Supermarkets Group (CSG) is embarking on a major recruitment drive focused on explaining the key benefits of joining the symbol group through member and shopper testimonials.
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Old El Paso targets vegans in TV ad campaign
Old El Paso is on a mission to highlight its vegan-friendly Smoky BBQ Fajita Kit as a tasty meat-free meal choice in a £1.5m marketing campaign.
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Appleby Westward reports 5.6% like-for-like rise in festive sales
South West Spar distributor Appleby Westward has announced a 5.6% increase in like-for-like wholesale sales over the two-week Christmas and new year trading period.
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What’s keeping my tills ringing?
The new year healthy eating trend and Veganuary have led to a significant uptake of healthy groceries and snacking products in the opening weeks of January, says Sid Sidhu, of St John’s Budgens in Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
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US bans cartridge-based flavoured e-liquids to combat teenage usage
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a ban on the manufacture and sale of a wide range of flavoured e-liquids - including fruit and mint - for use in pod or cartridge vaping devices, in a bid to drive down the US “epidemic” of teenage usage.
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Doritos spices up tortilla chips
Doritos has given its Tangy Cheese flavour tortilla chips a Flamin’ Hot twist to ignite the nation’s taste buds.
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Mondelez unwraps Cadbury Premier League promotion
Cadbury is running a promotion offering consumers the chance to win a ‘once-in-a-lifetime experience’ with a former Premier League player.
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Police appeal for witnesses to “distressing” c-store robbery in Bedford
Bedfordshire Police are appealing for witnesses to a “very distressing” convenience store robbery in Bedford, in which a staff member was in fear of his life.
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Diet Coke runs follow-up ‘You do You’ ad
Diet Coke has created a new TV ad and limited-edition cans that encourage people to resist the pressure to change and instead celebrate themselves.
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Booker sales grow “strongly” over past 19 weeks, Tesco reveals
Booker’s like-for-like sales increased by 4.1% in the 19 weeks to 4 January despite a “subdued” market, according to Tesco’s third quarter and Christmas trading statement.
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Mentos adds fruity flavours to gum range
Mentos Gum is extending its Pure Fresh line this month with two new fruity variants joining its bottled gum range.
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Retail industry suffers “worst year on record” as overall sales decline
Last year was the “worst on record” for the retail sector, according to the latest BRC and KPMG Retail Sales Monitor.
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Nisa-supplied Co-op bacon sku named least salty among supermarkets
A Co-op own brand bacon sku has been named the least salty of all supermarket bacon products in a hard-hitting new study accusing manufacturers of putting “profits before the health of the nation”.
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Unilever invests £5.5m in new Magnum Ruby ice cream
Unilever is hoping for red hot sales from its latest innovation, which pairs ice cream with Ruby chocolate for the first time.
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Chicago Town delivers new vegan pizza
Dr. Oetker Professional has added a new vegan pizza to Chicago Town’s takeaway range.
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Greggs reports “exceptional year” on back of vegan sausage roll and core range
Greggs has reported a 13.5% rise in total sales in the year ending 28 December 2019, driven by strong demand across its traditional ranges and the “huge popularity” of its vegan sausage roll.
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JTI pulls more gantries from retailers convicted of selling illicit tobacco
Three further c-store retailers convicted of selling illicit tobacco have had their store gantries removed by JTI.
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Sainsbury’s festive sales down but convenience thrives on Christmas Eve
Sainsbury’s has reported a 0.7% decline in like-for-like retail sales (excluding fuel) over the 15 weeks to 4 January 2020, but its c-stores enjoyed their second best-performing Christmas Eve.