All Convenience articles – Page 150
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Analysis & FeaturesGrocery Retail Structure 2015: how c-stores can keep up
As more shoppers eschew traditional weekly shops, c-stores are benefiting. But easy street it is not.
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Analysis & FeaturesConvenience stores on a mission: get smart and chill out
Convenience shoppers are on a mission. And if independent retailers want to help them they need to get smarter.
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Analysis & FeaturesSocial media masterclass: a modern way to engage customers
The world of social media can seem confusing, but the likes of Twitter and Facebook offer unprecedented access to consumer
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Comment & OpinionInconvenient truth: c-store business is changing fast
Booker’s deal this morning is just another thing that proves the sector needs to stay on its toes
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NewsBooker succeeds in £40m bid for Budgens and Londis
Londis currently has 1,630 convenience stores and sales of £504m in the year to December 2014, while Budgens has 167 convenience stores and supermarkets and sales of £329m.
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NewsNewsagents launch protest over PayPoint commission changes
The NFRN this week made a formal complaint to the Payment Systems Regulator, calling for a full market investigation into over-the-counter payment
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NewsTop-up boosts average c-store basket size to three products
The average number of items bought in a c-store has hit three products for the first time in 10 years
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NewsSpirits sales 'could add £280m to convenience category'
Spirits currently account for 21% (£1.1bn) of all alcohol sales in convenience, versus 26.6% (£2.7bn) in grocery
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NewsEat 17 forms new partnership with AF Blakemore
EAT 17 has two joint Spar convenience retail and restaurant sites in Walthamstow and Hackney
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NewsNisa survey to be 'key input' into Nick Read strategy plans
The survey was launched at Nisa’s annual exhibition, held this week at Stoneleigh, Warwickshire
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NewsOne Stop launches in-store Subway concessions
The first two concessions will be in Leicester and Burton Latimer
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NewsCamelot reports record lottery sales
Retailers earned £330m in sales commission in 2014/15, and Camelot raised £1.8bn for National Lottery Good Causes
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NewsDynamic Retail relaunches as Scotfresh as it eyes more stores
Dynamic Retail, which had been trading under the Premier fascia, has relaunched as Scotfresh
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NewsLondis reshuffles management team
John Ridgley, Paul Adam, John Taylor and Des Dunbar on the move
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NewsE-cigs: newsagent takes fight to specialists with new gantry
Kieran McDonnell claimed the one-metre e-cig gantry had allowed him to compete with specialist vaping shops by allowing more products to be stocked
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NewsC-store bottled ale sales could top £100m, says Marston's
Premium bottled ale (PBA) represents a £104m opportunity for the convenience channel, a brewer’s report has claimed.
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NewsThree senior directors axed at Nisa as new boss Nick Read rings the changes
Nisa chief executive Nick Read has become the latest new retail boss to make sweeping changes to his senior management team in a bid to arrest poor trading.
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NewsPub conversions into c-stores made harder by new planning rules
With more onerous planning changes that came into effect this week, the government has protected pubs listed as Assets of Community Value (ACV)
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Analysis & FeaturesRetail clubs: a perfect soft launch into symbol retailing?
What do retail clubs offer for indies that want to take on the mults but retain their independence?
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Analysis & FeaturesSourced Market has found a platform for success at St Pancras
Since arriving at St Pancras station in 2009, Sourced Market has gone full steam ahead