All articles by Gaelle Walker – Page 82
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NewsRetailers consider impact of spending review
Chancellor George Osborne's barrage of spending cuts has sparked varied reactions among the retail community and its partners.
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Product News
Stores demand consistency on age-restricted sales
Retailers and other elements of the licensed trade have repeated their call for more consistency and uniformity in the ways local authorities and police tackle underaged alcohol sales across the UK
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NewsIndependents ready to fight supermarket surge
Small stores have what it takes to fend off the competition – and win
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Products In DepthCash in: Tobacco - Roll Your Own
Value brands and hand rolling tobacco are all the rage, giving grounds for optimism despite the looming display ban threat. Gaelle Walker reports
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Products In Depth
Cash in: Tobacco - the retailer's view
Retailer’s view: Naweed Ashraf “Our tobacco sales are up compared with last year, not a lot maybe four or five cartons more a week, but there has been a wee change…
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Products In DepthCash in: Tobacco - Cigarettes
When it comes to cigarettes, these days less really is more. Demand for products which offer better value for money have surged over the summer (maybe it had something to do with all those stressed out footie fans smoking more) and manufacturers have moved into overdrive with an array of new cheaper brands and variants, smaller pack sizes and repositioned ranges.
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Products In Depth
Cash in: Tobacco - Cigars
With little over two months to go before the Christmas bells start peeling, now is the time for retailers to start unwrapping the cigar opportunity.
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Products In DepthCash in: Tobacco - The Challenge
JTI is committed to stamping out the illicit trade and has a variety of systems in place to do so…
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NewsA Broadway hit: Broadway Premier Store, Edinburgh
Dennis and Linda Williams’ Broadway Premier certainly has star quality, as Gaelle Walker finds out on a tour of the store
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Products In DepthCash in: Tobacco - making headlines around the world
Tobacco is big news here, but it’s also making headlines around the world. Here’s a snapshot of what’s going on globally
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NewsSmokers still in the dark on age limits
Government, local councils and Trading Standards must go further to support retailers in the fight against underaged tobacco sales, according to the Tobacco Manufacturers Association (TMA) after a survey revealed that more than a third of adult...
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News
Retailers splash out on store refurbishment
After two years of cutbacks, shop fitting is finally on the up as confidence returns and retailers invest in their stores
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Product News
A price-fighting rolling tobacco from Booker
Booker has launched a new price-fighting hand-rolling tobacco under its Red Band brand
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Product News
Tobacco summit tackles illicit trade
The UK's first-ever large-scale summit on how to reduce the supply and consumption of smuggled and counterfeit tobacco was held in Perth last week without representation from tobacco manufacturers, who were barred.
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News
Deflating interest hits local currency
They were supposed to unite communities and support local businesses, but local currency schemes are losing favour with busy retailers and shoppers, it has emerged.
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News
Waitrose damages newsagent’s trade
Waitrose is refusing to back down on its decision to sell newspapers and magazines in its new Cambridge convenience store, despite the protests of a neighbouring newsagent who claims his business is being "bled dry".
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News
Stores sign up for CCTV monitoring
Pilfering and vandalism could become a thing of the past for the hundreds of retailers across the UK who have signed up to Internet Eyes, the radical new security system which allows members of the public to monitor live CCTV camera feeds of...
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News
Staff costs driving retailers to the brink
Store owners are feeling the pressure as costs force cuts in staffing levels
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News
Appleby Westward closes two Eurospar outlets
Appleby Westward Group (AWG) is to close two of the three Eurospar stores it opened in the South West of England last year.
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Features and analysis
Public CCTV monitoring could cut store crime
Hundreds of retailers across the UK have signed up to a radical new security system which allows members of the public to monitor live CCTV camera feeds.