All Analysis articles – Page 3
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Marginal gains in fuel prices bring down CMA ire on supermarkets
Supermarkets have been playing fast and loose with fuel pricing for years but the folly of their actions has finally come back to haunt them. John Wood reports on what led up to this week’s damning CMA report into the road fuels market
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AnalysisFuel Market Review 2023 – resilience despite intense pressures
Hard work and adaptability are continuing to pay off for the fuel retailing sector, according to Forecourt Trader’s latest Fuel Market Review.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: EG Group maps out the future as Asda takes over the present
EG Group and Asda are both set for new chapters in their development as EG Group explores the future of alternative fuels and Asda becomes the second biggest owner of forecourts in the UK.
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AnalysisSERVICE CENTRE: Card payment confusion - Fire station or Service Station?
I got an email from Jon Brownsey in Hampshire saying: “I have an interesting situation which, while not causing me a problem directly, is resulting in a number of customers ’phoning to check they have paid me and not someone else.
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AnalysisMONEY TALK: Assets and depreciation
Perhaps you’re in the fortunate position where you’ve just been able to invest a lot of money revamping your site. New tanks, pipework and some the latest very flash pumps, just for starters.
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AnalysisTECH TALK: Politicians are beginning to realise that EVs are not the only answer to Net Zero
It was encouraging to see so many insightful proposals on decarbonisation announced recently by the cross-party Transport Select Committee’s Fuelling the Future report – many of which chime with our own view on how the UK can most effectively achieve Net Zero.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: EV charging industry sets up association to help shape its future
A new trade body for the burgeoning EV charging industry is aiming to provide a major impetus for the sector. John Wood reports
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AnalysisMONEY TALK: Inflationary issues
According to the Office of National Statistics, the inflation rate in the UK (using the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) in the 12 months to March of this year (the latest available figure) was 10.1%, which was slightly below the rate in February (10.4%); this following an annual rate overall of 9.1% during the calendar year 2022.
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AnalysisSERVICE CENTRE: Queries about vapes and staff
Which vapes should I stock? This was the question posed by my old regular correspondent who styles himself as ‘Gassing Around’ (GA). A simple query that raises many complications.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Planning for more EV chargers
While charge point operators (CPOs) such as Fastned are ready to invest millions in the UK, cumbersome planning regulations are slowing the rollout down. So says Tom Hurst, UK country manager at Fastned.
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AnalysisSERVICE CENTRE: A very chilling problem
I got a call to the helpline from Jagdish Radia, who runs Leaway Service Station in Birmingham, regarding his freezer from Caterquip.
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AnalysisMONEY 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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AnalysisANALYSIS: 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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AnalysisPIT STOP: Ascona, Parker Drive, Leicester
Our mystery motorist on a mission at Ascona, Parker Drive
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AnalysisSERVICE 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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AnalysisMONEY 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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AnalysisANALYSIS: 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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AnalysisSERVICE 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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AnalysisMONEY 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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AnalysisCOMMENT: 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’.