All News articles – Page 410
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Fantastic Five: Sales Assistant of the year 2009
The judges of the Sales Assistant of the Year Awards can tell you it's nearly 300 miles from Plymouth to Braintree in Essex, and more than 250 from there to Aberystwyth on the Welsh coast. Those are just two of the journeys we undertook...
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Communities act to take back control
Local businesses across the country are soon to benefit from radical changes to the way their communities are run thanks to the Sustainable Communities Act, which is now in full swing. More than 300 proposals to tackle community decline...
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Furious newsagents consider action on Sun rate cut
News International (NI)'s decision to reduce retailers' cash margin on The Sun by 1.6p per copy has been met with “revulsion and contempt” by newsagents who say the move will take over £10m a year out of retailers' tills.
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Display ban: review or reverse?
Mark Prisk's speech at the ACS Heart of the Community seminar did little to reassure retailers that a Conservative government would throw out legislation to ban the display of tobacco products in stores. Most Conservative MPs opposed the...
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Campaign update: Stop tobacco proxy purchasing
Convenience Store has been campaigning for adults who buy cigarettes for children to be made liable for prosecution, as they are in the case of alcohol. An attempt to add an amendment banning proxy purchasing of tobacco products the...
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Dean caught out by testing times
An independent store owner who failed his first test purchase after more than 14 years of selling alcohol is urging his fellow retailers to redouble their efforts to prevent underaged sales in the lead up to the festive season, when purchasing...
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Chains in the frame to grab Threshers
Costcutter and Bargain Booze are among big-name retailers believed to be interested in snapping up stores from collapsed off-licence chain Threshers. Just under 380 First Quench retailing outlets, which also includes the Wine Rack and The...
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VAT change forces review of pricemarks
The UK's biggest tobacco company is temporarily phasing out pricemarked packs on certain lines to help retailers adjust to the end of year VAT change. Imperial Tobacco is ceasing production this month on pricemarked packs of Richmond King...
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Tories vow to turn the tide of red tape
The Conservative spokesman for small businesses has said the Party would "give independent retailers back the power to compete" if it comes to power in next year's general election. Mark Prisk MP, tipped by many as a likely minister in a...
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MPs slam government on Post Office closures
The government has been accused of displaying a “real lack of concern” over post office closures.
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Scottish stores join push to local foods
Leading Scottish retailers have made a commitment to supply more local food and drink in their stores.
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Poor start for ‘slapdash’ Menzies
Convenience Store columnist Dave Newman is fuming at the quality of service provided by Menzies Distribution since it took over the supply of newspapers in Sussex and Kent last month.
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Pressure on to resist minimum wage rises
Retailers have again called for a freeze on the minimum wage in a meeting with the Low Pay Commission.
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All abuse and no praise for underage sales refusals
A retailer who has never failed a test purchase is calling for more credit for the hard work stores do to combat age-restricted sales.
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Local is key for new chain Haldanes
New retail group Haldanes aims to return shopping to the heart of the community with an emphasis on locally sourced products.
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Shopping with mother: is this a proxy purchase?
BBC News last week featured a report on a woman who was fined £80 for buying on behalf of a child after she was seen buying vodka-based drinks with her 15-year-old daughter. Read more and give us yourr views
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Test purchasers' late night swoops catches store out
An independent store owner who failed his first test purchase in 14 years of selling alcohol in a closing time sting operation is urging his fellow retailers to stay vigilant at all times.
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VAT change forces review of pricemarked packs
The UK’s biggest tobacco company is temporarily phasing out pricemarked packs on certain lines to help retailers adjust to the end of year VAT change.
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Cigarette smugglers turn to stores for supplies
The scale of Britain’s trade in illicit tobacco trade has been demonstrated in a series of incidents which took place just weeks after MPs voted to burden legitimate retailers with the cost and disruption of a display ban.
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Prime Minister learns a lesson in local
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has visited a Scottish store to see for himself how the role community retailers play in their neighbourhoods.