All Convenience Store articles in 3 September 2005 – Page 3
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News
Tobacco crackdown
American c-store giant 7-Eleven has reached agreement with the authorities in 40 states to introduce stringent new measures to prevent the sale of tobacco to minors.
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News
New look for Co-operatives
New branding for several Co-op stores is being unveiled this week as the first stage in a re-branding exercise across the entire movement.
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Mag code dismissed
The Association of News Retailing (ANR) has branded attempts by publishers and wholesalers to draft a new magazine code of practice as “desperate and unnecessary”.
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Co-op closure row
The Co-operative Group is facing vociferous opposition as it attempts to dispose of around 100 of the stores it acquired when it bought the Alldays and Balfour chains. The group would prefer to sell the unwanted stores as going concerns. But where th
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Product News
Christmas Stocking
With so many confectionery products, how do retailers know what to stock?
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Can you club together to get cheaper video hire?
This was another service query and for obvious reasons I’ve kept the retailer anonymous because what he was suggesting turned out to be illegal. He thought that he might be able to run a ‘video rental club’ from his shop, signing customers up to a sort of library and using ...
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Campaign needs more support
Independent retailers are concerned that not enough wholesalers are embracing the My Shop is Your Shop (MSYS) campaign, a survey has revealed.
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Business ‘no’ to saintly holiday idea
Small businesses in Scotland have voiced opposition to a move by Scottish MPs to declare St Andrew’s Day (November 30) an extra bank holiday.
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Thinking outside the box
As it prepares to launch yet more new services, Mark Wingett talks to retailers about the new-look Post Office and whether it can open new lines of profit
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Coins of the realm, but which ones are bona fide?
Time to talk money. I was contacted by Binz Sidhu, who owns a small shop in High Ercall, at Telford in Shropshire. He took over from his parents last October and says he’s been baffled by the not-quite-the-full-ticket coins that have come across his counter ever since. “I’ve noticed that ...
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Bestway gives its Best
Bestway has launched the biggest promotion for its own-brand Best-in products, which gives consumers 100% extra product with some of its most popular lines.
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Bells course hits right note
Sainsbury’s subsidiary Bells Stores has become the first c-store chain to have its management training course accredited by a university.
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It’s all Wight for Southern
Southern Co-operatives has expanded its c-store estate with the acquisition of the Davids chain on the Isle of Wight. The deal, which comprises eight stores ranging in size from 1,200sq ft to 3,900sq ft, is expected to be completed by early November.
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Scots aim to hole bag tax
The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has slammed proposals to introduce a 10p plastic bag levy north of the border.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Join me, I’m celebrating! This column is into double figures age-wise.
The helpline page ‘went live’ on September 8, 1995 and has appeared in every issue, every fortnight, ever since. I may not know, even now, how to run a c-store, but on your behalf I regularly try on lots of the hats that you are forced to wear in your ...
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News
Sainsbury’s stores unite against crime
Sainsbury’s at Jacksons and Sainsbury’s at Bells are to pool their security resources to combat crime across their stores and Sainsbury’s Locals in the Midlands and North East.
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Features and analysis
Action on respect
Retailers have welcomed the formation by the government of a new Respect Task Force, which will work toward neighbourhood renewal, combating anti-social behaviour and supporting local alcohol and crime- fighting initiatives.
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