All ACS articles – Page 34
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NewsACS calls for help with fighting fund
The Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) has warned that independent fuel retailers will need to raise their game to survive as it launches a fighting fund to stave off the march of the supermarkets. With the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) expected to publish an interim verdict on whether or ...
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ACS slams test schemes
The Association of Convenience Stores has pledged to fight on behalf of retailers, following evidence of aggressive test purchasing practices by police and trading standards officers in Essex and Liverpool. ACS chief executive David Rae said: “Test purchasers should not be allowed to lie about their age, and they should ...
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NewsACS seethes as Tesco gets OFT go-ahead
The Office of Fair Trading has cleared Tesco’s acquisition of 21 former BP/Safeway forecourts from Morrisons.
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ACS fuels review
The Association of Convenience Stores is using hypermarket fuel pricing as evidence of below cost selling as part of its wider evidence to the Office of Fair Trading calling for a review of the grocery market.By setting the average selling price of the four major supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda ...
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Top ideas at ACS conference
Delegates who attended this year’s ACS conference left Warwickshire bursting with new ideas and increased confidence about how to work with their customers, staff and suppliers to make their business a cut above the rest, according to chief executive David Rae. Motivational speaker Martin Hayward set the tone by urging ...
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ACS offers advice amid Sudan 1 chaos
Retailers have had a major headache on their hands since the warning announcement this month from the Foods Standards Agency about food products containing Sudan 1. Many have complained that not enough information has been forthcoming from official sources – but there has been plenty of speculation in the media ...
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ACS fights for fairer post office contracts
The Association of Convenience Stores has lodged a complaint to the Office of Fair Trading in its battle for fairer contacts between the Post Office Ltd and subpostmasters.Described as a “ground-breaking complaint”, it could signal an end to the charges by Post Office Ltd on National Lottery commission and to ...
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ACS calls for support in bid for regulation
The Association of Convenience Stores has called for independent retailers to sign up to membership in a bid to create a stronger voice in the battle for fair regulation in the grocery market.The move comes as ACS urges the Government to introduce safeguards for the whole grocery sector following Sainsbury’s ...
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NewsACS campaign tackles planning
Retailers across more than 40 constituencies are poised to kick-start the first Association of Convenience Stores ‘Campaign Champions’ campaign by lobbying their local MP on the issue of planning.Campaign Champions has received a brief from the ACS outlining the Government’s proposed changes to current planning laws and the implications for ...
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NewsACS votes to axe ’big four’ grocers
The big four multiple grocers have been excluded from membership of the Association of Convenience Stores following a vote at an extraordinary general meeting held during its Blackpool conference last month.At the meeting, members voted for a special resolution proposing an amendment to the ACS constitution regarding membership criteria. The ...
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ACS focus on crime
Forecourt Trader Award-winning retailer Jonathan James gave an entertaining speech at the ACS Conference about how he was attacking crime proactively in his stores, so he is not seen as a ‘soft target’ by criminals. He was asked to do the presentation on a newly introduced ‘Independents Day’ – separate ...
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We need industry safeguards, says ACS
The Association of Convenience Stores has renewed its call for safeguards for the whole of the grocery industry in the wake of another purchase of a convenience store chain by a superstore giant.Last month J Sainsbury purchased the 54-store Teesside-based Bells Stores group, a move which the ACS believes should ...