All Independents articles – Page 8
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Analysis & FeaturesIndies split over impact of Tesco-Booker merger plan
The independent trade is split down the middle on the merits of the shock £3.7bn Tesco-Booker merger
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NewsJempson's plans multimillion-pound refurbishment of Rye store
The new store will also incorporate the town’s Post Office
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NewsNew push against illicit tobacco launched by NFRN and Imperial
Fifty thousand anti-illicit trade kits branded with Imperial’s Suspect it? Report it! campaign are being distributed
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NewsToday's Group unveils NPD scorecard to rate potential success
New products will be judged on factors including packaging, price and marketing
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NewsBestway revamps category management offer for indies
New programme includes category advice, planograms, must-stock lines and sales insight
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Analysis & FeaturesCan digital save the high street?
Instead of killing off the high street, digital marketing is now being proclaimed as its saviour
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NewsIndependent retailer fury over Daily Mail digital marketing
The NFRN described the delivery performance of the Daily Mail as ’lamentable’
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NewsLia Rutter opens second Bargain Booze outlet in Macclesfield
Rutter has secured investment from Royal Bank of Scotland to open the store
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NewsMorrisons revives Safeway brand and trials Rontec food offer
The Safeway brand will be used on a range for independent retailers
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NewsPRS for Music tariff changes 'will squeeze smaller stores'
The ACS says the changes will cost convenience retailers £1.26m more each year…
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NewsMore independent retailers happy with their symbol groups
Two-thirds (67%) told Him Shopper Research & Consulting they “felt like a valued customer of their symbol group”
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NewsScottish Grocers Federation teams up with Awaz FM
Glasgow-based radio station hosted a live two-hour phone-in with SGF chief executive Pete Cheema and past president Abdul
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Analysis & FeaturesASH sets out to wean indies off their reliance on tobacco
The group claims indies could make more money if they cut down on tobacco to focus on more profitable lines. Does it have a point?
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NewsSupermarket c-stores rated higher than indies for food to go
Larger players scored better on health, value and quality of options
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NewsBestway: 'indies hiking tobacco in absence of PMPs'
Just 20% of independents are sticking to the manufacturers’ rsp following the introduction of new plain packaging rules
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NewsASH aims to get small retailers off the tobacco habit
Retailers are tying up too much money in a low profit category, says the pressure group
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Comment & OpinionIndependents have an opportunity to back Britain
Subjectively I perceive a real desire among consumers to support UK produced goods
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NewsDiwali and Eid 'missed opportunity' for independent retailers
Some 71% of retailers do not actively engage with customers around the occasions
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Analysis & FeaturesAre independent retailers stealing the wine show?
Five years on from the dark days of 2011, how has the independent off-licence sector evolved to cope?
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Comment & OpinionDigital is the way forward for loyalty
Despite looking at several loyalty propositions I have not found one yet that can be made to work in c-stores