All Convenience Store articles in 30 August 2008
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News
Tobacco petitioners swoop on DoH
Staff at the Department of Health (DoH) got a rude awakening on Monday morning when a group of angry independent retailers hand-delivered more than 7,000 postcards in protest against Government plans to ban the display of tobacco products in shops. The retailers, all members of the Tobacco Retailers' Alliance, ...
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Features and analysis
Retailer is in the right
A Kent retailer’s year-long nightmare has come to an end after he was cleared of assaulting a teenage vandal. Sheikh Tariq Mahmood grabbed one of several youngsters who had broken a window and door in an incident at his store near Dartford last...
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Worthitssalt
The crisps and snacks market is booming as more consumers buy into the category, reports Tracy West
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To the point
Alan Toft foresees a time when delivered wholesalers lose their appeal – and it could be very soon
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Picking up the pieces
Alan Carr refuses to let criminals get the better of him, as Sarah Britton finds out
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Features and analysis
Retailers slammed over vodka scam
Trading standards officers are targeting independent retailers after quantities of counterfeit vodka were found in stores across the country. It is thought that the Spar-branded fakes were sold out of unmarked vans. Bristol City Council said it...
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MPs to take part in retail seminar
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) is to stage a new event this year to help retailers improve the level of contact with their local MPs. The ‘Heart of the Community’ seminar will feature hints and tips on how to engage with MPs and the...
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Huge response to tobacco review
The Department of Health (DoH) has been inundated with retailer responses to its consultation into tobacco control, C-Store can reveal. A spokeswoman for the DoH said that “several thousand small retailers” had written in to indicate their...
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Features and analysis
Punishments too harsh, says study
Convenience store owners have lashed out at claims the government is too quick to convict young people who commit petty offences. In a report for King’s College London, Professor Rod Morgan criticised the government’s widening summary powers such as...
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Hancocks in Liverpool
Hancocks is to open a 16,000sq ft confectionery cash and carry in Liverpool later this month, just in time for the Christmas rush. Hancocks CEO Andrew Hancock said he was confident the depot would further strengthen the business. “We know that...
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News
Going for gold in HND
Martin McColl is to relaunch its home news delivery service with the help of a delivery specialist. Leicester-based retail consultancy the Fore Partnership has signed a three-year deal to manage newspaper delivery for the group’s 1,300 stores....
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Indies unfazed by Tesco local focus
Independent retailers say they are not threatened by Tesco’s goal of achieving sales of more than £500m from locally sourced products this year. The chain said that sales of locally produced items such as bread, meat and eggs had risen 40% this...
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Flying the flag
Get ready to celebrate local produce as British Food Fortnight gets under way again. Sarah Britton reports
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Publishers offer fast track plan
A new restitution system for publishers’ poor service has received an underwhelming response from newsagents. The Publisher Fast Track Restitution Scheme is based on a similar procedure for wholesalers and has been introduced after an ISSA-based...
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Features and analysis
Tool roots out fake ID
A ground-breaking new system which instantly weeds out fake ID and verifies a customer’s age has been launched in the UK. The new AgeSafe system from Idscan Biometrics has the ability to read and verify 230 different ID formats, including driving...
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Elderly neglected in stores’ design
The elderly are overlooked when it comes to designing stores, according to Newcastle University’s Institute for Ageing and Health. “Almost everything about supermarket shopping in the UK is wrong for elderly customers, from shelving that is too high...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Just give us the tools and we’ll deliver the goods
This is being written the day after the last bank holiday until Christmas. Patterns always become strange during bank holidays and none more so than that fag-end of summer one. How was it for you?
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: They do say nothing ventured, nothing gained
Many retailers will have been contacted by a new outfit called Channelcom, which is billing itself as the UK’s first advertising management company. Channelcom has been conducting what director Robin Gadsby described to me as a ‘stealth recruitment campaign’, which means the company has written to thousands of retailers to sign them up. The official launch will come later.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Urban myths: you know they’re not really true!
Superstitions abound on the internet… send this email to five more people and you will have something wondrous happen to you (beauty, riches, fame) in the next five minutes… delete it and your left arm (or something worse) will drop off. Why?