All Campaigns articles – Page 5
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NewsStand up to Tesco
Tesco is increasing its brand presence across the country, but successful local action and a growing national campaign offer hope for c-stores
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Features and analysis
Second Walk & Shop Day makes its mark
Hundreds of independent stores were involved in the second My Shop is Your Shop National Walk & Shop Day, which took place on September 2.
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Features and analysis
Fight your corner: Size doesn’t matter
Plenty of small stores are standing up to the might of the supermarkets, from seeing off their planning applications to keeping customers’ loyalties
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Features and analysis
Power struggles: a burst of energy
There are two ways to cut energy costs – and we’re helping with both by giving you practical advice and increasing the pressure on suppliers
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Features and analysis
A chill wind fans energy bills
The price of electricity is rising, so convenience store operators need to use less, or pay less, or both. We offer some strategies to help keep power costs under control
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Features and analysis
Time for small stores to fight their corner
C-Store launches a campaign to help good independent stores become great – by reminding the public just how valuable their local shop is.
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Features and analysis
Election issues: The Post office
Post office closures over the past four years have hit the once-great network hard and communities and retailers that depend on branches to survive have suffered.
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Features and analysis
Election issues: Tobacco
With health officials claiming that smoking causes 84,000 UK deaths each year, the issue of tobacco control will always be on the political agenda, whatever political shade takes the helm.
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Features and analysis
Election issues: crime
Violent crimes against c-store staff have been in the headlines recently and all parties are sympathetic, in words at least, to the pressures stores are under.
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Features and analysis
Election issues: Competition
Only time will tell if any new government will be prepared to take on the grocery giants. If they do, we might just find out who's really in charge of the country
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Features and analysis
Election issues: Alcohol
Alcohol's role in health issues and anti-social behaviour puts it high on every political party's list of targets for reform, and its media profile will make booze a key battleground both in the election run-up and the first years of a new administration.
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Features and analysis
Election issues: next on the Agenda
C-Store looks at could some of the issues that will affect you during the next term of government
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Features and analysis
Election Special: who gets the small stores' vote?
Convenience Store has identified the key areas that will affect local retailers in the next few years and looks at what the main parties have pledged to do to help.
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Features and analysis
Election issues: Support for small businesses
All the main parties declare their support for willing entrepreneurs, but small business development is currently crushed under a weight of red tape and regulation.
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Features and analysis
The energy contract rollover trap: we’re still falling for it
Convenience Store has had its biggest ever response to its revelation of energy suppliers’ sly tactics – but many of you are still getting caught out
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Features and analysis
Best performing convenience categories 2009
C-Store’s annual product performance survey shows that some categories just can’t be held back
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Features and analysis
A power boost for micro-businesses
Ofgem has imposed restrictions on power suppliers which will make life easier for the smallest stores. But they and others will still need to stand up for themselves
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Features and analysis
Winning with a store makeover
Introducing the retailers and suppliers taking part in Convenience Stores' makeover project
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Features and analysis
Convenience Store campaigns: how did we get on?
Over the past year Convenience Store has been running four campaigns to help independent retailers protect themselves from the threats of big business and relentless regulation.
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Features and analysis
Name and shame
Tory leader David Cameron believes adults who buy alcoholic drinks for children should be named and shamed, with their photographs displayed around their home town