All Convenience Store articles in 30 July 2011
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Features and analysis
Retailers welcome riot relief package
Prime minister David Cameron has announced a package of measures to help communities and businesses affected by the recent riots.
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Advice Guide
National Minimum Wage impact survey launched
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has called for evidence from retailers on the impact of increases in National Minimum Wage (NMW).
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Features and analysis
Riot-hit retailers remain defiant
Store owners have been left shell-shocked by the recent rioting across England but are vowing to continue to serve their communities.
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Features and analysis
Retailers warned to submit insurance claims immediately
Retailers affected by the riots across the UK have been urged to submit insurance claims as soon as possible.
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News
Sweet Charity launches emergency fund for riot-affected c-stores
Sweet Charity has created an emergency fund to help convenience retailers affected by this week’s riots.
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News
Nisa announces TV return
Nisa is to reappear on TV following the success of its first ever national television campaign at the beginning of the year.
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News
Subway eyes convenience expansion
Subway has revealed ambitious plans to treble the number of outlets it has within “non traditional” sites such as convenience stores in the next five years.
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Dear Jac
It might be you...maybe...perhaps
A few retailers have been in touch to ask how they could improve their chances with Camelot now that it’s been announced that there may be some new terminals on offer come the end of the year. I asked Camelot for some advice and got the usual…
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Dear Jac
Go where the buck stops: the top
Kirit Ved, who runs Ved’s News in Stoke Newington, keeps an eye on his property because, as I reported some time ago, his local council had him in court and made him change his shopfront in keeping with its listed building status even though Kirit…
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Dear Jac
Bright sparks having you on
If someone offers you a free compliance check, a just-to-be-on-the-safe-side sort of thing, odds are they will find something wrong that you will have to pay them to correct.
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Dear Jac
Bill and Ben...a point of law
My caller wishes to remain anonymous, purely from shyness I think. I’ll call him Ben since the story features the Old Bill. Ben is very polite. He says: “A gentleman called yesterday quite early. He told my dad, ‘You sold me a Tuesday copy of my…
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NewsHMRC smokes out illicit tobacco trade
Increased efforts to crack down on the UK's illicit tobacco traders proved effective last month, with a number of high-profile seizures reported. In Walsall, near Birmingham, HM Revenue & Customs officers uncovered an "Aladdin's cave"...
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News
Unwanted red tape gets the snip
Retailers have welcomed the government's announcement that a number of retail regulations will be scrapped or simplified. The proposals are the first results from the Red Tape Challenge, a public consultation which asked businesses and...
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News
Warning as thieves target van drivers
Van drivers are being urged to be vigilant following a rise in the number of reported incidents of diesel theft. Police across the country are responding to greater numbers of the thefts, in which thieves force open fuel caps to siphon...
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Features and analysisDoors to success
Chillers with doors opens up a wealth of money- and energy-saving opportunities…
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NewsStore’s community efforts are rewarded
Independent retailers Vince and Dennis Maloney are rejoicing after their Budgens store in Ascot, Berkshire, was crowned Small Company of The Year at the prestigious Business in The Community Awards. It is the first time in the awards' 14-year...
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News
Staff injured in Booker cash and carry raid
Staff at Booker's Sunbury depot in Surrey are recovering after a brutal raid in which several employees sustained head injuries. Four masked men smashed their way into the depot on the afternoon of Saturday July 23, before threatening and...
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News
More grants available to help tackle crime
The government has announced £14m-worth of funding to help communities combat crime and antisocial behaviour. Announced by crime prevention minister Baroness Browning, the Community Action Against Crime Innovation Fund has been allocated...
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Features and analysisStaff safety - Look after your own
The constant threat from crime could be affecting your staff’s health and your wealth