All Convenience Store articles in 27 September 2008 – Page 3

  • News

    Co-op joins the war against knife crime

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The Heart of England Co-op has made a stand against knife crime by removing all kitchen knives from sale at its 33 food stores. The society has also enforced a strict Challenge 25 policy for knife sales at its eight non-food stores. Heart of England...

  • News

    Store destroyed after four raids

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    A Lancashire retailer is distraught after his store was ransacked by thieves a staggering four times in one night.

  • News

    MSYS sets out action plan for Christmas cash-in

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Retailers who say they are too busy at Christmas to promote their store are missing out on a prime opportunity to stress their value to the community, according to the My Shop is Your Shop (MSYS) campaign.

  • Blog

    ACS in action

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    ACS chief executive James Lowman has been doing the rounds of the political party conferences

  • News

    OFT to investigate Tesco acquisition

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to investigate Tesco’s take-over of an independent supermarket in Barnstaple, Devon. Brian Ford’s Discount store was bought by a property firm on behalf of Tesco in 2003. It was only in August that Tesco’s...

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: A sore point about the competition

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    I had what I regarded as an odd complaint about Booker Cash and Carry. Alvin Wilkinson, who runs Countdown in Hornsea, near Bridlington in East Yorkshire, shops at Booker and stocks its Happy Shopper brand.

  • Features and analysis

    Crime: Roundup - October 3 2008

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    A store owner was stabbed in the arm after grappling with a knife-wielding robber at his store in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. The raider escaped with all the notes from the till at Jitu Patel’s Supamac store. But despite losing blood, Jitu...