All Convenience Store articles in 9 July 2005
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News
Vaz support for retailers
Labour MP Keith Vaz is tabling an early day motion (EDM) in the House of Commons on the power of supermarkets.
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To Protect and Serve
The Co-operative Group has always vowed to put the safety of its customers and staff first, but by placing a police office in one of its c-stores, it has taken this one step further.
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The price is right
The UK retail property market is in fine form with c-stores, post offices and CTNs flying off the shelves.
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Londis ‘on track‘
One year on from Musgrave’s takeover, Londis retailers say the group’s new bosses are delivering on their promises and responding to their needs.
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Lease of life
Retailers need not lose out when the rent is up for review, as property consultant Richard L Daniels explains.
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Product News
Mama’s helper
When you talk about wet cooking sauces, you’ve got to be talking Italian, says Tracy West. It’s the ‘real thing’
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Going Local
Derek and Karen Hallett last year invested in a refit for their Cleethorpes store, which became the first in the country to sport symbol group Nisa-Today’s ‘Today’s Local’ format. Simon Linacre visited the Lincolnshire seaside town to meet the couple
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Latecomers face prison
Local authorities are warning that retailers who fail to get their alcohol licences granted in time will face prosecution the day the new regime comes into effect, on November 24.
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Product News
Fresh at the double
Nisa-Today’s has reinforced its commitment to provide its members with quality fresh produce with the
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: Sorry Wales, you just don’t ‘rate’.
Well, not when it comes to discounting business rates anyway. Pauline Anslow says she got “quite excited” when she read my June 17 column recounting Harjit Singh’s advice that anyone with a rates bill under £5,000 was entitled to a reduction of 50% . I’m afraid that Malcolm Merriott did ...
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: What do you have to show for a lifetime in retailing?
This is a rhetorical question prompted by a sad letter from Rita Henderson in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, who is going out of business at the end of August thanks to the government and the Post Office, which together have wiped out the hundred-year old tradition of the pension book. Rita’s footfall ...
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Features and analysis
New focus on retail crime
Home Office minister Hazel Blears has backed C-Store’s Zero Tolerance anti-crime campaign.
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Town and country difference exposed
Urban shoppers expect and generally get more from c-stores, whereas shoppers in more rural areas are more likely to be disappointed by what’s on offer, according to new research.
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Merger plan for Co-ops
The Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op (OS&G) and the West Midlands Co-op have announced plans to merge and become the fourth largest co-operative in the UK.
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Dear Jac
Dear Jac: NPower has responded to a retailer’s recent complaint over promised prices.
Last issue I reported on Tushar Patel’s complaint about the power supplier’s verbal promise to reduce his electricity bill and his shock at discovering that the opposite had happened. NPower needed more time to consider its reply and thus I bring it to you now.
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A simple calculation
Paul Giles of solicitors Browne Jacobson explains how the VAT flat rate scheme works and what it means for retailers.
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New view on branding
Nisa-Today’s has agreed a ‘best of both worlds’ approach to branding c-stores where the owner has developed a strong local name.
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Product News
Brand of Opportunity
Branded wine offers a profitable return for c-stores according to the speakers at Drinksummit 2005.
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Crackdown on booze for kids
An initiative aimed at stopping adults from buying alcohol for minors is to be launched in Hampshire.
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Features and analysis
Co-op police unit trial fits the bill
The number of Co-operative Group c-stores with integrated police offices could increase after the success of the first one, in south-east London.