All Post Office articles – Page 19
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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...
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n It doesn't have to be a doom and gloom story about closure
What future for the village shop? Together with the church, school and pub, the local shop and post office has always been a key focal point to village life. Over the past 20 years, many villages have lost their local shop and discovered, too late,...