All Convenience Store articles in 3 September 2005 – Page 3

  • News

    Tobacco crackdown

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Cover star

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    A magazine sales boom is helping the news category stay in the c-store headlines

  • News

    New look for Co-operatives

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Mag code dismissed

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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”.

  • News

    Co-op closure row

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Product News

    Christmas Stocking

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    With so many confectionery products, how do retailers know what to stock?

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Can you club together to get cheaper video hire?

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Wine Cellar sees c-store gap

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Off-licence chain Wine Cellar has moved further down the

  • News

    Campaign needs more support

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Independent retailers are concerned that not enough wholesalers are embracing the My Shop is Your Shop (MSYS) campaign, a survey has revealed.

  • News

    Business ‘no’ to saintly holiday idea

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Thinking outside the box

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Coins of the realm, but which ones are bona fide?

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Bestway gives its Best

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Bells course hits right note

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    Sainsbury’s subsidiary Bells Stores has become the first c-store chain to have its management training course accredited by a university.

  • News

    It’s all Wight for Southern

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Scots aim to hole bag tax

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) has slammed proposals to introduce a 10p plastic bag levy north of the border.

  • Dear Jac

    Dear Jac: Join me, I’m celebrating! This column is into double figures age-wise.

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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 ...

  • News

    Sainsbury’s stores unite against crime

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Features and analysis

    Action on respect

    2005-09-09T00:00:00Z

    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.