All Post Office articles – Page 17
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n High brand penetration and benign pricing have been the ha
Napoleon might have uncharitably dubbed Jersey a pustule on Albion's backside', but when it comes to food retailing, the nation of shopkeepers could learn a thing or two from the grocers on the Channel Islands. Indeed, when Sainsbury was looking...
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Priced for a quick sale
With the price reduced to achieve a quick sale, the first offer of more than £60,000 takes the Spar store in Hillyard Row, Catterick, North Yorkshire, says agent Dowling Kerr. Close to the Army base, it is located in a main road position on a busy...
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Merseyside post office
In the same ownership for 34 years, Friar Street Post Office in Seddon Street, St Helens, Merseyside, is on the market only because of retirement. In a dense residential area, it carries a post office salary of more than £34,000 a year. In the...
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C&C standards given a massive thumbs up
Independent retailers have overwhelmingly backed the wholesale trade after accusations that it had rude and unhelpful staff, and its depots were expensive, dirty and often out of stock. The remarks came from restaurateur Paul Clerehugh when he...
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How do parties in the global B2B forum ensure they arereally
When it comes to communication, we have never had it so good. We can sit down at a computer and with a single touch of a button, talk to someone in Venezuela or Outer Mongolia via a webcam But the capacity for worldwide communication raises…
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Stuart Reed, Loxley Post Office & Store, Sheffield
We shall probably get a 25% increase on last year's figures from the beginning of December onwards. Letting people know which brands are on offer is important, and advertising the best bargains in the window helps. We are a c-store, pure and...
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At last, ID that deals with a retail dilemma
Grocer Club readers have voted unanimously in favour of the new government-backed Connexions identity card for teenagers. In a straw poll carried out this week, all retailers questioned by The Grocer said the card was a great idea and long...
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n The supermarkets' swoop on banking and other financial ser
Almost five years after the launch of branded banks by Tesco, Sainsbury and Safeway, the concept of buying customer-friendly financial services from the big supermarket chains has proved to be a winner. Now, it's the c-store operators who are...
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PO/newstrade strangleholds priorities for ACS's new chief
Combating restrictive practices in the Post Office and news sectors are two challenges the new Association of Convenience Stores chief executive has set himself. David Rae, who takes over as chief executive from Trevor Dixon on November 1, warned...
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Customer care at the heart of Connex's c-store philosophy
French rail operator Connex is on track to open the first of a new chain of 42 concourse convenience stores in Gillingham, Kent, in February. E-Connex md Olivier Jenoc said the train company is in negotiations with symbol and multiple groups and...
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The serious money's on the Costcutter
With a high footfall and limited competition, the Costcutter store in Sheepridge, Huddersfield, offers an opportunity to earn serious money', according to agent Dowling Kerr. A bonus is that the local post office owned and operated separately and...
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Rural action: Charles pushes local sourcing
Clive Beddall Chief executives of Sainsbury, the Co-operative Group, Spar and the IGD stood alongside the Prince of Wales at St James's Palace on Tuesday to give a high profile send-off to what could be the biggest ever boost for locally produced...
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Symbol groups: Spar's combined c-store and post office debut
Spar has opened the UK's first combined main post office and convenience store in London this week. Rather than sectioning off the post office behind glass windows, the open plan design at Westminster Bridge Road enables customers to pay for...
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Have we turned the full circle?
Sir; Consignia's initiative, Local Collect, which gives consumers an option to collect their mail-ordered items from selected post offices is interesting. There have been a number of such schemes mooted over the last year or so, mainly looking at...
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Association of Convenience Stores: Call for PO terms rethink
The ACS has warned of a further drop in sub post office numbers unless the Post Office Network makes the prospect of taking on a post office more appealing to independent retailers. In a new report, the ACS Post Office Committee claims retailers'...
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clicks not bricks: Internet delivery for independent retaile
Wholesale revolution Independent stores' reliance on cash and carries could be challenged by the launch of a new internet delivery service says Ed Bedington Blueheath's co-founder Douglas Gurr is keen to emphasise that his online wholesale venture...
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The vacuum that is A&L Giro-bank
Sir; I think the Alliance & Leicester business bank Giro-bank should be renamed Guru-bank Re-direct. I am a newsagent and on January 13, I placed a first class Giro-bank envelope containing cheques worth £359.58 in the postbox to catch the 5pm…
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General election 2001: top of my wish list
Time to deliver In the run up to the general election The Grocer asked senior figures across the food and drink industry to specify what they thought should be the priorities for the new government. With voting over this week, here's a reminder of...
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Jac Roper's advice centre: Universal Bank brings post office
Card transactions are now the way of the world and it's good to see the Post Office is finally catching up, by virtue of the lifeline it is being thrown by the government. Around 500 sub post offices are closing each year, and at a rate of around...
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Federation of Wholesale Distributors: Blueprint useless' in
The success of the Federation of Wholesale Distributors' Blueprint for Wine is being undermined by discounting in the multiple grocers and specialists. Kent independent retailer Phil Brown told the FWD Drinksummit conference this week: "A lot of...