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Features and AnalysisBudget 2021: at a glance
Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the Budget 2021. What were the key points that impacted the convenience channel?
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Features and Analysis
Budget 2021: what it means for retailers
Business rates and National Minimum Wage increases dominated the Budget 2021 agenda amongst convenience retailers.
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News
Coronavirus: Staff “earning every penny” of new minimum wage rise
Hard-working convenience store staff who are going “above and beyond” to maintain stock and service levels during the coronavirus crisis are earning every penny of their new higher minimum wage, according to independent retailers.
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News
Retailers forced to react to “crippling” rise in National Living Wage
Independent retailers have been forced to react to the “crippling” upcoming hike in the National Living Wage, which will increase by four times the rate of inflation in April.
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News
ACS warns ministers over impact of 6.2% rise in National Living Wage
The upcoming 6.2% rise in the National Living Wage will put further pressure on struggling high street businesses, the Association of Convenience Stores has warned the government.
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News
ACS calls for urgent action on wage costs amid further retail job losses
The Association of Convenience Stores has called for “urgent action” in the Budget to help store owners offset the proposed rise in the National Living Wage, as new figures revealed the 15th consecutive quarterly decline in retail employment.
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Opinion
Domestic policy is back in the news
The Queen’s Speech last week, while still pretty Brexit heavy, was a refreshing return to government setting out its domestic legislative intentions in the coming months.
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News
Queen’s Speech includes tougher sentences for violent offenders
A proposed new Sentencing Bill to impose tougher sentences on the most serious and violent offenders was included in the Queen’s Speech on Monday.
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News
Store owners outline fears over proposed £10.50 National Living Wage rate
Retailers will be forced to cut staff hours and raise prices in a bid to offset new government plans to hike the National Living Wage (NLW) to £10.50 over the next five years, store owners claim.
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Features and Analysis
Political gains
Establishing a relationship with your MP can help you influence local and national policy – and even force global corporations to make changes. Retailers and MPs share their experiences.
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News
Chancellor outlines plans to raise National Living Wage to £10.50 per hour
The government plans to hike the National Living Wage (NLW) to £10.50 over the next five years, chancellor Sajid Javid announced at the Conservative Party Conference on Monday.
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News
Independent retailers’ investment plans fall to seven-year low
Fewer than 10% of independent retailers are planning to invest in their business in the future, according to the Association of Convenience Stores, marking the lowest figure since it began its Voice of Local Shops Survey in 2012.
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News
Most c-store owners have cut hours since latest NLW rise, poll reveals
Nearly three in four (72%) independent c-store retailers have reduced the number of paid working hours in their business since the latest National Living Wage increase in April, according to the Association of Convenience Stores’ annual NLW survey.
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Opinion
Staff costs demand attention
The stress of working in the convenience sector needs urgent attention, SGF chief executive Pete Cheema argues.
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News
Number of low-paid workers at lowest level since 1980
The number of low-paid workers in Britain has fallen to its lowest level since 1980, and low pay could be abolished altogether by the middle of the 2020s, according to a new report by Resolution Foundation.
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Dear Jac
Plenty of company
Dilbag Sandhu rang with a complaint about his post office contract. He runs Halfway House, a Local Plus post office, in Glasgow. He says he is doing more transactions than the main PO in his area and yet is being paid less.
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News
Three in four subpostmasters earning less than NLW, says poll
More than three-quarters (76%) of subpostmasters are earning less per hour than the National Living Wage from working in their post office, according to a National Federation of Subpostmasters (NFSP) poll.
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News
Retailers struggle to absorb latest National Living Wage rise
Independent retailers are struggling to absorb the cost of the latest increase in the National Living Wage (NLW).
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News
Government to review National Living Wage policy
The government is to launch of a review of National Living Wage (NLW) and National Minimum Wage policy, taking into account the employment and productivity effects of rising wage rates, chancellor Philip Hammond announced in the Spring Statement today.
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Features and Analysis
Cash in on rate relief
Retailers with eligible sites can expect to receive a discount on their next rates bill. C-Store outlines the detail and potential obstacles ahead.
