All Convenience articles – Page 42
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Scotmid hails 'transformation' from electronic shelf edge label rollout
The rollout has ’transformed how the store looks and how we work’ says Scotmid, ’boosting morale and increasing our pride in store standards’.
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Rav Garcha transforms former Sainsbury’s Local store to Nisa
The Midlands-based Nisa retailer, who now owns four stores, relaunched the site, which had been vacant for six months
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Co-op trials reduced lighting in stores to lower energy costs
The convenience retailer, which operates more than 2,500 stores across the UK, is trialling dimmed or reduced lighting in a number of locations
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Analysis & Features
HFSS: Small convenience stores call for more detail on exemptions
On the surface, exemptions to the HFSS rules are simple. But franchise agreements complicate matters
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One Stop introduces new eco measures in mission to be carbon neutral by 2035
One of the eco moves it has taken is switching to paper bags for home delivery orders across 600 company-owned stores
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Snappy Shopper boosts online orders for 50 c-stores with 1p bundle promotion
Snappy Shopper will be launching another bundle promotion later this month with selected retailers throughout Scotland, England and Wales
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Iceland enters wholesale trial with Bestway for independent retailers
It is understood a range of the discounter’s products are being trialled at the Costcutter Nuneaton store
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Comment & Opinion
HFSS legislation is confusing, arbitrary and hard to enforce. Will it really make a difference to our health?
Retailers have done their best with this complicated legislation but the picture remains unclear as to its benefits, says Steve Dresser, CEO of Grocery Insight
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M&S Food strikes exclusive partnership with Ireland’s Applegreen
Applegreen operates 500 forecourt sites across the UK, Ireland and the US. It currently has almost 200 locations in the Irish market
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Cost of living crisis impacting top-up missions and impulse purchasing for c-stores
Report highlighted the impact on top-up missions of shoppers trading out of convenience in search of more competitive prices at supermarkets and discounters
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Eat 17 pauses hunt for franchise partners to focus on existing estate
It announced the franchise arm pre-Covid and published a prospectus for potential partners in 2021
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Analysis & Features
Smaller retailers are feeling the brunt of HFSS confusion
One of the biggest areas of confusion has been which businesses are included and which are exempt, says James Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores
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Convenience retailers concerned over arrival of vape brand Elf Bar at Tesco
The supermarket giant is launching a range of 12 Elf Bars this week
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AF Blakemore helps 108 colleagues gain LGV driving licence
Seventy-seven colleagues have gained a Class 1 licence and 31 have gained a Class 2 licence
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Bestway raises $2.3m for Pakistan flooding victims
Money will build homes or shelters for 5,000 families, provide water for more than 100,000 individuals, and deliver food and medical supplies to over 20,000 people
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Brakes launches 10% cashback offer for Christmas
Brakes is offering 10% cashback, until 31 December, across key categories including meat and poultry, Christmas tableware, wine and champagne
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Paul Cheema returns to Costcutter after eight years with Nisa
Cheema, who runs two stores in Coventry with his family, joined Nisa in 2014 at the height of the Palmer & Harvey supply challenge period
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The Co-op’s incubator scheme winners hit the shelves
Successful suppliers focused on innovative solutions around sustainability, food waste, plant-based, and non-HFSS classified snacks
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Premier drives focus on sustainability and tech as it reaches 4,000 stores
The Booker-owned fascia has begun trialling a number of features at a newly refurbished store in Bournemouth
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Fuel10K challenges Quaker Oats with instant porridge sachets launch
The new format provided ‘a quick, delicious and economical option’ amid the cost of living crisis