All Convenience Store articles in 8 December 2007
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News
Weird & Wonderful
Gaelle Walker reports on five stores in some very unusual places, from a remote island to a submarine base
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Features and analysis
Sound & vision
Select and Save retailer Mark Dean snapped up the chance to join an award-winning radio and CCTV link scheme in Stoke-on-Trent.
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Dear Jac
Unthank says 'no thanks'
Campaigners in Norwich are celebrating after Tesco's plans to build an Express store in the city were thrown out by councillors for a fourth time.
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Product News
Stick to your principals
Amanda Nicholls looks at which products are essential for convenience shoppers, and how to make the best of these basket basics
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Product News
Hot to Trot
There are plenty of new brews in the hot drinks sector, but don't forget your core brands, says Kate Miller.
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News
Tobacco displays next in the firing line
Retailers are facing further regulation of their tobacco sales, including restrictions on cigarette displays, under new plans revealed by the government.
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News
Future of independents hangs on 'flawed' data
The Competition Commission has received a series of warnings that the dataset used as a basis for many of its preliminary findings may be misleading.
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Dear Jac
Terminal illness - there seems to be no cure
Jatin Desai has lost his PayPoint terminal. The London-based retailer refused to cave in when PayPoint insisted he remove a 3R top-up terminal.
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News
Crisis meeting tackles gangs
A Costcutter store which suffered months of trouble from local youths has fought back with the help of the local authority and the police.
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News
Small stores fight corner to the last
As Convenience Store went to press, independent store representatives were preparing to meet with the Competition Commission (CC) in a last-ditch effort to influence the findings of its Grocery Market Inquiry.
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News
Community spirit wins recognition
Dennis and Linda Williams of Broadway Convenience Store in Oxgangs, Edinburgh, were chosen as the Federation of Wholesale Distributors' My Shop Is Your Shop Gold Medal Retailers of 2007 at a gala dinner at London's Café Royal.
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News
Timetable set for NMW rate changes
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) will inform the government of its recommendations for changes to the National Minimum Wage (NMW) in February, ahead of the government's announcement in March 2008.
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Dear Jac
The real deal? Get it in writing to be certain
If you get an offer from a cold-calling rep that sounds too good to be true, then rest assured it will be exactly that.
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News
More cash for training
The government has announced it is doubling funding for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC)'s Train to Grain skills brokerage service.
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News
Boos for a Booze Busters store sign
Martin McColl has encountered the wrath of residents in the North Somerset town of Portishead after erecting a large Booze Busters sign over its new highstreet store.
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News
Bold raid stuns retailer
A Costcutter retailer has spoken of his amazement at the brazen attitude of a ram-raid gang who launched a shocking attack on his store.
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News
Underage sales blitz under way
Retailers are being warned to be extra vigilant when selling alcohol over Christmas as the government launches a new test-purchasing scheme.
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News
Selling below cost is an unfair fact of life
Malcolm Thomas was ticked off to see that the Threshers next door had recently changed introduced newspapers which it is selling at half price.
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Dear Jac
And here are further beefs on those inserts
Irene Hewitt wrote from Bardney News that it is not the official inserts that she and most of her customers object to. It's the catalogues that add the weight.
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Dear Jac
Head off those rating bandits at the pass
Just when I should be writing about jolly things like the jingle of tills, I find it's the jangle of spurs instead. The cowboys are back in town.