All Post Office articles – Page 18
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Rural shops: Country ways
Rural shops would be at less risk of shutting if they diversified into more services and opened for longer writes Helen Gregory Images of dusty cans of peas and faded parish posters are sadly redolent of village stores. For many, this outdated...
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Post office with an adjacent 4-bed home
Broadsea Post Office in the High Street of Fraserburgh, a coastal town in the north-east of Scotland, has been operated by the same family for 40 years. Now fully computerised, the business comes with a post office salary of £46,000 a year and an...
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Post offices: Benefits loss makes for risky times
Every so often a retailer spots a post office going out of business nearby and asks me how to go about getting the service shifted into their own business. The sub-post office, that weird mix of public and private enterprise, can be a golden...
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clicks not bricks: Locking out the hacker
E-tailers face hefty charges if they fall victim to persistent online fraud. But credit cards were not designed for use online, so is anyone developing a cyber-age alternative? Helen Smith reports Barclays, Safeway and Woolworths are among the...
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Small stores: Boost as sub PO fee goes
The abolition of hefty licence fees charged by the Post Office Network to retailers wishing to run sub post offices will give the market a huge boost, according to property agents Christie & Co. Since 1989, retailers taking over a sub post office...
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Costcutter snaps up two Londis stores
Two West Country Londis stores have been sold to Costcutter through agent Christie & Co. The first is the Forches Post Office and Londis in Barnstaple, Devon, while the second is the Dash Convenience Store in St Ives Road, Carbis Bay, St Ives. The...
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Robert Wiseman Dairies Awards: Winning ways that build confi
Three happy c-store retailers can celebrate Christmas in the sure knowledge that they have won the confidence of their neighbourhood. Margaret Low, who manages the 900 sq ft Spar store in Munro Avenue, Kilmarnock, and Jane and David Scott, who run...
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News review 2000: Win-win all the way
Multiples popped their corks in the c-store sector in Millennium year, but the major symbol groups carried on partying The multiples' headlong rush into the already crowded c-store sector continued with Sainsbury securing a deal with Shell to...
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Crisis in the countryside: White Paper's rural lifelines att
Retailers' representatives have given a lukewarm reception to government proposals to help village shops, contained in its rural White Paper published this week. They complained the measures were too limited and that some did not represent new...
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Co-ops: United Norwest ambitious for growth
United Norwest Co-op is to step up its aggressive acquisition and refurbishment programme in the new year. The society plans to phase out the fascias of its Dawn to Dusk, Nevins, and AM/PM convenience chain acquisitions in 2001. Conversions are...
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Symbol Groups: Londis breaks 2,000 barrier
Londis membership has broken through the 2,000 store barrier, including 60 Scottish retailers who have joined the symbol group since May. Sales director Terry Bedford said: "We have already made a net gain of 75 members during the first nine months...
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Retail spotlight: CWS Market Town Maltby
facts & figures - Sales area: 10,000 sq ft - SKUs: 14,000 lines - Opening hours: 8am to 10pm (10am to 4pm Sunday) - Staff: 60 - Services: Post office, ATM, financial products and baby changing facilities - Checkouts: six for main store, three...
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Post Office Counters reluctantly OKs national minimum wage
Post Office Counters (POCL) has caved into demands for the national minimum wage from sub postmasters after intervention by Inland Revenue. But POCL is still fighting another case where four weeks’ paid leave is being claimed under the working time…
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The Grocer focus on pasta & pasta sauces: Retailers: brands
The market's booming in the independents. Ann Bruce finds out what's selling and why Jeff Roberts, proprietor JA and MC Roberts Week St Mary, Devon Roberts runs a c-store and post office in a tourist area, so he is at his busiest in the summer....
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Londis: Thousands of POs ripe for c-store conversion'
Thousands of sub post offices could be saved from extinction by bolting on convenience, but there's no need for another symbol group. That's the view of Londis sales director Terry Bedford, responding to Colin Baker, general secretary of the...
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Village shops: Sleeping with the enemy
It may have started as PR or as genuine community responsibility, but the cosying up of supermarkets to village shops represents just one aspect of a lasting change to trade dynamics says Steve Hemsley The Kent branch of the Council for the...
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Armed forces: New generation Naafi Max opens in Germany
UK stores will keep Spar fascia but uniforms and internal branding will change Exclusive John Wood, Sennelager The armed forces retailer Naafi has unveiled the first of a new generation of stores. The 37,670sq ft Naafi Max store at Sennelager in...
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Retail spotlight: Bringing a Smile
Its easy to get around the newest store in the Newshops estate. Julian Hunt went to Street in Somerset to take a look The residents of Street in Somerset were the first in the south west to get a taste of the new Smile brand being developed by...
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C-stores: Smile! It's a new convenience format
Exclusive Julian Hunt A new brand is being developed in the convenience and CTN sectors by Newshops as part of its ambition to be seen as the "best local retailer". Work on Smile only started in January. But the brand has already appeared at four...
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Rillington PO sold
Rillington Post Office, five miles to the east of Malton on the main A64 York to Scarborough road, has been sold. Price achieved is undisclosed although agent Christie & Co was quoting £210,000 for the freehold. Also operating as a convenience...