All Convenience Store articles in 29 October 2005 – Page 3

  • News

    Landmark decision to change strategy

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Landmark Cash & Carry has changed its name to Landmark Wholesale.

  • News

    MPs call for unity

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The Home Office is calling on the retail trade to act in a more co-ordinated way to combat the problem of underage drinking.

  • News

    Tesco buys get okay

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    In the same week that the OFT agreed to reconsider its views on the effect of multiple grocers’ entry into the c-store sector, it gave the green light to Tesco’s acquisition of another 21 petrol forecourts.

  • News

    Budgens to go national

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The Budgens fascia is going national, as Musgrave Budgens Londis (MBL) announces plans to make its four regional distribution centres dual-branded.

  • News

    Buddy Marvellous

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    A tide of neighbourliness is sweeping across the UK’s convenience store trade, as Andrew Don finds out.

  • Product News

    Tea Brake

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    More adventurous shoppers are putting the brakes on sales of Britain’s favourite hot drink.

  • News

    Bob’s diary

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Spar retailer Bob Beatty reflects on how Tesco and Sainsbury have honed their c-store offer

  • Features and analysis

    Protection Bill is doomed to failure

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    A Conservative MP’s bid to resurrect a Bill giving store owners the right to use greater force against intruders looks set to be rebuffed by the government.

  • Product News

    Bar talk

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    What’s the latest instalment in the cereal bar market? Mark Wingett catches up on the sector’s health and wealth

  • News

    ANR pleads case to MPs

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The Association of News Retailing (ANR) has stepped up its fight with publishers over the future of the news supply chain.

  • News

    Alarm bells at NEF meeting

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The OFT’s rethink on the grocery market could be traced back to a meeting it held with the New Economics Foundation (NEF) in early October.

  • News

    Quake aid floods in for Asian retailer

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    An Oxford c-store owner has raised nearly £2,000 to help rebuild his family’s village in Pakistan, only days after hearing that 14 of his relatives had been killed in the Asian earthquake.

  • Features and analysis

    Stores are defiant after race clashes

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Asian retailers caught up in recent violent outbreaks in Birmingham have told C-Store they are determined to carry on trading in the area.

  • News

    Barometer man adds to pressure

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    A 54-year-old trader from Essex staged a sit-down protest against Tesco delivering six-days a week to one of its Express stores.

  • News

    OFT cracks under ACS pressure

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    The sensational U-turn came as the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) was putting the finishing touches to its legal challenge against the OFT through the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).