All Convenience articles – Page 3
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Promotional FeatureWhy are energy drinks big business for convenience stores?
Energy drinks are now worth more than £922m and continue to go from strength-to-strength. Here, Pippa Foster, associate director of commercial development at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), explains what trends are driving the category’s growth and how independent retailers can tap into this opportunity.
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Promotional FeatureWhy premium ice cream can get your tills ringing this summer
Summer is the time to tempt shoppers with your ice cream offering, but with ever-changing demands, what are the biggest opportunities this year and how can you win with shoppers in this category? Ferrero UK explains how premium options and innovation can help draw shoppers in.
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Promotional FeatureHow Bestway is supporting its Best-one retailers
When similar brands are housed within the same portfolio, it can be a challenge to market them both with sufficient differentiation. But Bestway is doing just that with its Costcutter and Best-one convenience stories. Here’s how.
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Promotional FeatureHow to boost your back to school sales
With the new school year just around the corner, consumers are looking for new healthier snacks to fill lunchboxes. Find out how one brand is cornering the market in cheese snacks and what opportunities can boost your sales.
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Features and analysisBank card users up c-store visits, while rapid delivery trips dip
Shoppers who pay by card are spending more in c-stores this year due to more frequent visits
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Promotional FeatureHow bricks-and-mortar transformations continue to boost loyalty and margins
With a number of its retailers moving across to the definitive Spar Market format, the result is a compelling offer that has its roots in local understanding, says UK retail director Ian Taylor.
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Promotional FeatureThe benefits of collaboration between retailers and suppliers
Convenience retail in 2023 is a fast-moving, innovative and high-pressured industry, but there may be a valuable tool to help retailers face the challenges in the year ahead.
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Promotional FeatureHow innovation could sweeten your confectionery sales
With retailers facing increasing pressures, now is the time to prioritise new products with high rates of sale and offering healthy cash margins.
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Promotional FeatureThe retail tech to invest in to make your store run better
Investment in retail technology and specifically electronic point-of-sale (EPoS) software systems and self-checkouts will continue to be a trend well into 2023.
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Promotional FeatureThe key ingredients for home delivery success
With home delivery services growing in popularity, it’s a natural progression point for convenience stores to expand the reach of their stores. See what four key components provider Snappy Shopper recommends to maximise your home delivery success.
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Promotional FeatureHow retailers can best navigate the HFSS legislation
Although some of the upcoming HFSS legislation has been deferred by government, convenience retailers still face a challenge when it comes to re-organising shelf space and prioritising areas such as aisle ends to non-HFSS products. KP Snacks gives some timely advice on the issue.
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Promotional FeatureBelfast-based Spar benefits from move to fully self-service
Spar Titanic Quarter in the heart of Belfast has implemented a brand new retail concept, becoming a fully self-service checkout store, powered by epos software, and enabling manpower and cost savings.
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Promotional FeatureHow post offices function as the heart of a community
Two people running village post office branches explain how a change of direction led them to become the centre of their communities.
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Promotional FeatureWhy convenience stores should invest in a home delivery partner
Today, home delivery is an essential part of the future success of convenience stores, enabling them to widen their community network and future-proof their business against the competition. Snappy Shopper reveals how technology can help.
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Promotional FeatureHow a Premier store in Sheffield has innovated its way to retail success
Despite all the challenges of the past 19 months, Mandeep Singh and his brothers Baljeet and Vrinder have brought in a host of innovations – from a beer cave to a thriving delivery service – at their Premier convenience store in Sheffield, and are reaping the rewards.
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Promotional FeatureEvolving store formats to support business growth
Nisa explains why its latest Evolution and Express store formats are worth investigating by independent retailers
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OpinionMaintaining the momentum in 2021 will be crucial
As we move into 2021, James Lowman of the Association of Convenience Stores stresses the importance of building on the progress made in 2020.
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NewsSimply Fresh and Sainsbury’s wholesale partnership expands
Following a successful trial, Simply Fresh and Sainsbury’s are expanding their supply partnership
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Features and analysisCoronavirus: Will the boost to local shopping last after lockdown?
New research from YouGov suggests the trend might be here to stay
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Advice GuideHow to retain customers post-lockdown
Business has never been better but what happens when customers start to drift back to the multiples? How can you keep the shoppers you gained during lockdown?
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