Archive of all Post Office articles – Page 19
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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...
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The only village store in Burniston
The Burniston Post Office & General Store in Scarborough, North Yorkshire comes with a five bedroom house and large garden. As the only store in this village it boasts a profitable retail trade which includes newsagency, off licence, national...
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Independents: Retailers sceptical about pledge of government
Independent retailers remain sceptical about the government's commitment to the Post Office network despite this week's pledge that it will halt all "avoidable" closures of rural outlets. The package of measures unveiled by trade and industry...
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In Brief: 5th May 2000
Babyfood manufacturers have slammed a Which? report claiming that sugar levels in leading babyfoods are too high. Symbol group Select & Save is planning a major relaunch in August. Bestway has opened a new cash and carry in Bolton its 21st...
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Will you take the Habit?
In the popular tourist village of Gosforth in Cumbria, the Lakeland Habit is an extremely profitable c-store, post office and newsagency. Located opposite the village's only major car park it also incorporates a first floor tearoom/cafe which is...
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Preservation order had to be overcome to give the Hook Norto
Tony Hurren reports A village store at Hook Norton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, where a series of proprietors stayed for only two or three years, has now been run by the same couple for more than a decade and, following a major refit, sales have...
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No room for a Soviet state
The Competition Comm-ission kept the Post Office busy again this week with another mail out to supermarkets. Just a whiff of the official postmark sets the adrenalin coursing through the veins of the industry and its media sideshow. But for all...
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Billingshurst sale
The Station Road Post Office in Lower Station Road in Billingshurst, West Sussex, is on the market. The business, which carries a Post Office salary of £16,000 a year and a gross margin of 35%, is loated close to the railway station. There is great...