News – Page 40
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Features and analysisOne in four shoppers witness physical or verbal abuse of shop staff
These incidents have included acts of racial or sexual abuse, physical assault or threats involving weapons
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Features and analysisHartlepool retailer stripped of licence after ‘dangerous vodka’ found on open sale
Trading Standards also seized 194 illegal vapes
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Features and analysisNewstrAid appoints Paul Bacon as operations manager
He will take over from Tom Rodger, who will retire at the end of the month
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Features and analysisRetail crime cost Scottish retailers almost £20,000 per store last year
The Scottish Grocers’ Federation has released its latest Crime Report
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Features and analysisEvri responds to retailers who say they’ll lose hundreds a year as volume bonus is cut
Independent retailers are up in arms about the cutting of the weekly bonus volume from delivery company Evri
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Features and analysisBestway to empower retailers with new social media initiative
Bestway Retail has announced the launch of a pilot scheme across a select number retailers
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Features and analysisGroceryAid Ball raises £717,267 for charity
More than 1,000 guests attended this year’s GroceryAid Ball
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Features and analysisJW Filshill achieves pledge to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 five years ahead of target
Wholesaler JW Filshill says sustainability still top of the agenda on 150th anniversary
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Features and analysis£500k worth of illegal tobacco discovered in storage unit
Walsall Council Trading Standards teamed up with West Midlands Police and a specialist search dog team as part of Operation Shadow
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Features and analysisSlush drinks should be banned for under eights, BMJ suggests
New research study finds that an ingredient in slushies can cause illness in the young
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Features and analysisHome Secretary praises retail industry in Second Reading of Crime and Policing Bill
Home secretary Yvette Cooper outlined the details within the upcoming bill to MPs
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Features and analysisFood to go sector predicted to be worth £24bn by the end of 2025, Lumina reports
Analysts Lumina Intelligence has just released its annual Food To Go report
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Features and analysisNational Convenience Show 2025: Hear from the women shaping convenience retail
The National Convenience Show takes place at the NEC in Birmingham on 7-9 April
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Features and analysisBRC's latest figures show modest retail growth in February as sector braces for an expensive year
The BRC has just released figures for February showing modest growth, but warns of other pressures on retailers
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Features and analysis80% of stores caught selling corrosives to minors in Gloucestershire undercover sting
The products sold included brick and patio cleaner, plughole unblocker and caustic soda drain unblocker
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Features and analysisThe ups and downs of the high street - by the Government and the BRC
Two announcements on our high streets’ fortunes arrive on the same day
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Features and analysisFood allergen information updated by FSA
The FSA has issued new best practice industry guidance on providing allergen information to consumers
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Features and analysisLocal shops lost £316m to retail crime in 2024
The ACS’s latest 2025 Crime Report found that shop theft has reached a record high
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Features and analysisAllwyn awards £20k to 11 lottery retailers in its quarterly prize draw
Operator Allwyn has announced it has awarded £20,000 in prizes to 11 National Lottery retailers
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Features and analysisInternational Women’s Day: Industry still has a 'long way to go’ in embracing inclusion
Glasgow-based retailer Nathalie Fullerton says women retailers have to “prove again and again” that they are, in fact, the ones in charge