All Post Office articles – Page 11
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MPs vote on post office closures
The Conservative Party has failed in its bid to prevent the closure of 2,500 post offices.The Conservatives lost a vote to suspend the closures by 268 to 288 in the House of Commons last night. Some 19 Labour MPs voted with the...
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Comment and Opinion
The minimum wage will drive small shops under
Inflation-busting increases to the national minimum wage are disastrous for small shopkeepers struggling with soaring costsIn how many industries does the boss often earn a lot less than their most junior staff member? Welcome to the...
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C-stores tipped to defy fall in property values
Convenience and off-licence property values are expected to remain buoyant despite a slump in the commercial property market.The US sub-prime mortgage crisis caused growth in retail property prices to slow towards the end of 2007....
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Local retailing
Many small shop owners believe their more personal service puts them in a different league to the multiples, and means they can still thrive by offering products and services catering specifically to the local community. Chris and Sue...
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Profiles and QandAs
Shop Profile David Sands
You won't hear David Sands muttering about the tough trading environment for the independents. And why would he? The David Sands chain of 24 c-stores in Fife, Perthshire and Kinross-shire - which has just been named Responsible Drinks...
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Shop Profile - David Sands
Store numbers: 24Staff: 530Turnover: £25mStart date: 1807Sales growth year-on-year: 25%Type of operation: c-store with extra services You won't hear David Sands muttering about the tough trading environment for the...
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Express opens in Sir Terry's village
Sir Terry Leahy now has a Tesco store on his doorstep, after an Express in Cuffley, Hertfordshire, opened controversially this week.The retailer got permission in August to convert a former Harvester pub in Sir Terry's home village to...
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Store visit Kingsgate Wines and Provisions
On a beam in Kingsgate Wines and Provisions is the Latin phrase 'multum in parvo', which means 'much in little'. The description is pretty apt considering the store, which sits between Winchester Cathedral and its public school, offers more than...
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Store visit - Kingsgate Wines and Provisions
Established: 1996Size of store: 700 sq ftNumber of lines: 1,500 plus 100 different winesTurnover: £400,000 a yearOn a beam in Kingsgate Wines and Provisions is the Latin phrase 'multum in parvo', which means 'much in little'....
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Shop Profile Proudfoot Group
Store Numbers: four Staff: 200 Turnover: £18.9m Type of operation: supermarket chain As the deadline for the Competition Commission's findings on the grocery market comes ever closer, Mark Proudfoot, joint MD of the Proudfoot Group, will be leading...
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Shop Profile - Proudfoot Group
Store Numbers: fourStaff: 200Turnover: £18.9m Type of operation: supermarket chainAs the deadline for the Competition Commission's findings on the grocery market comes ever closer, Mark Proudfoot, joint MD of the Proudfoot Group,...
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Shop Profile Mills Group
Heavy rains and flooding have hit the UK over the past fortnight but convenience retailer Mills Group has been weathering a different type of storm for a lot longer. Pre-tax profit plunged 24% on turnover down 2% as poorer-performing stores, the...
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stores and insurers count cost of floods
The clean-up operation after last week's flooding could result in an insurance bill of £200m for the grocery industry alone, experts have predicted.The floods caused havoc for retailers, with a number of stores in the worst affected...
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Shop Profile - Mills Group
Store numbers: 75Staff: 1,150Turnover: £50.8mType of operation: C-store/CTNHeavy rains and flooding have hit the UK over the past fortnight but convenience retailer Mills Group has been weathering a different type of storm for a...
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Is this the c-storeof the future?
It's a fairly safe bet that when c-store owners sleep, they don't dream of unattended vending environments and Near Field Communication systems. Yet they ought to. According to the retail futurologists, c-stores are on the cusp of a...
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Martin McColl puts 54 sites up for sale
Convenience store and CTN chain Martin McColl is selling off 54 of its 1,274 stores.Eighteen of the sites for sale are in Scotland and 16 are in the Midlands and west of England. A further 11 stores are in the north of England, with the...
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Ideas to Take Away
Ideas to Take Away, sponsored by Cadbury Trebor Bassett, is back once again at CRS with 10 different concepts to boost footfall and profit in stores. An Ideas to Take Away film will be shown on a big-screen TV throughout the...
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Retailers say... No to local councils setting rates
What would I gain? Nauneet Kishore Lees Newsagent & Post Office, c-store North Kensington Size: 1,600 sq ft. I can't afford the current level of business rates. I'm paying £9,000 per year. That's a lot of money when you have to...
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Profile Revisited
It already faced Tesco. With Asda's arrival on the Northern Ireland scene, the Henderson Group faces another big, aggressive supermarket. And M&S also is doing well with its Simply Foods format. Yet Henderson, a wholesaler and retailer, is...
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"Asda and Ocado are targeting the grocery market. M&S is focusing on non food. And Tesco is sizing up, well, everything"
All hell broke loose on the internet shopping news front this week. Asda announced plans to hire 1,800 staff as it gears up its web-based operations, Sainsbury's took its online offering to Northern Ireland, and M&S declared that it was keen to...