All Analysis articles – Page 3
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MONEY TALK: Needed urgently - action on diesel prices.
As any regular readers of this column may have noticed, it is not very often that I find myself agreeing with the ‘consumer champions’ who accuse the forecourt retail industry of ‘over-pricing’ fuel.
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ANALYSIS: Affordability will prove to be the key to unlock consumer demand for EVs
The government is piling on the pressure to develop the EV sector, but are the majority of drivers ready to buy them. John Wood reports
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PIT STOP: Ascona, Parker Drive, Leicester
Our mystery motorist on a mission at Ascona, Parker Drive
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SERVICE CENTRE: What use is a broken-down ATM?
When Stanley Kydd got in touch, the ATM at his store – Frances Street Filling Station, in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland – had been on the blink for quite some time.
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MONEY TALK: It’s all automatic. Or is it?
Having recently been asked to help ‘sort out’ some company accounts that were ’a little behind’, it came as something of a shock to log in to their accounting system only to find the first screen showing over 700 (yes, that’s seven hundred!) unreconciled bank transactions on just one of (several) bank accounts.
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ANALYSIS: Price watchdog could savage independent sector
A proposed fuel price watchdog, which has gained support from a group of backbench Tory MPs, could wipe out many independent filling station businesses. John Wood reports.
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SERVICE CENTRE: A distinct abuse of power
I received a lengthy email from Tom Dant, who is the MD of Lincolnshire-based Gill Marsh Forecourts/TAG Retail, setting out the very distressing experience he had with Scottish Power.
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MONEY TALK: Problem tenants
It seems that yet again a quick look at the Forecourt Trader’s news pages reveals another story highlighting various illegal activities associated with the hand-car-wash (HCW) brigade.
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COMMENT: We’re NOT on track to reach 300K EV charge-point target by 2030
There is much to be welcomed in New Automotive’s ‘On the Road to 2030’ report, and in particular its important recommendation that we must ‘not slow the uptake of EVs in order for infrastructure to catch up’.
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Hydrogen: A fuel of the Future?
The climate change effects, pollution costs, and environmental awareness are driving towards alternative solutions to diesel and petrol vehicles in recent years, so clean energy fuelling choices are gaining popularity.
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TECH TALK: While sales of EVs have surged, we ignore other technologies at our peril
While sales of electric vehicles (EVs) have surged in recent years and are seen by some as the best and only solution for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from transport - the reality is that we forget to nurture other technologies at our peril, warns UKPIA.
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SERVICE CENTRE: a gesture of goodwill and slapped with a £90k fine
Steve Smyth, who is the manager of Harwood Bros Motors (Wootton) Limited on the Isle of Wight, got in touch for “just a bit of advice please”.
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MONEY TALK: What price a litre?
The run-up to Christmas produced a rash of stories in the media regarding retail fuel prices, with the usual claims that someone was over-charging (again) and that forecourt prices should have been ‘x’, ‘y’ or ‘z’ pence per litre lower than they actually were.
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MONEY TALK: What a year it’s been
Just 12 months ago, there was a quiet optimism (within ‘retail’ – if not necessarily in other sectors of the economy) that 2022 would bring some degree of recovery after two years of the ravages of Covid-19.
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SERVICE CENTRE: Software headaches and AI targeting shoplifters
Sebastian Nonis, who runs Forfar Rd Service Station in Dundee, asked Service Centre to try to intervene in the ongoing problems he has with his software from TLM.
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ANALYSIS: Plugging the gap
When the government finally published its UK Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Strategy in March, its target of a minimum of 300,000 public EV chargers by 2030 already sounded challenging, and events since then have only increased the likelihood that it will fail to meet it.
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LEGAL: The complexities of the new Register of Overseas Entities
Some readers may own petrol stations through an overseas entity. Others may be looking to do so in the future and so this article makes for important reading.
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COMMENT: Clamping down on illegal vape sales
One of the fastest-growing categories in the convenience sector is the e-cigarette or vaping market.