All Analysis articles – Page 4
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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.
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MONEY TALK: The storm is on its way and you need to act now
Retail businesses are in danger. It may be more acute than the financial crash of 2010, and even more so than the Covid lockdowns of 2020/21.
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PIPELINE: Rising E10 market share driving fundamental shifts
Trade in non-oxygenated gasoline blendstocks has hit record highs in Europe as the roll-out and uptake of E10 gasoline in the continent continues.
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EDITOR’S COMMENT: Celebrating the best
It was such a joy to see the prestigious Forecourt Trader Awards back to its best in October, as we celebrated the latest line-up of amazing retailers.
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COMMENT: Learning from the French fuel crisis
Thousands of Brits making their way across the Channel were greeted by chaos recently at half-term. Strike action taken by French refineries saw fuel supplies tightened and forecourts across the nation facing shortages – around a third of petrol stations were completely out of supplies.
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PITSTOP: Centra Mallusk, Mayfield Link, Newtonabbey, NI
Our mystery motorist on a mission visits Circle K-branded Centra Mallusk Service Station in Mayfield Link Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
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SERVICE CENTRE: The Night Porter: it has its critics
Well, it’s not really the film I’m referring to with that headline. Does your petrol station have a night hatch? I had no idea that it was such a love-hate service. But I watched an episode of Room 101 the other night.
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SERVICE CENTRE: Supply headaches and a call to lobby your MP
An uncertainty of supply equals one unhappy retailer. I had a call from Manpreet Bawa who runs Burnpark Service Station in Kilmarnock. It operates under the Gulf banner.
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TECH TALK: Acting responsibly in a time of drought
Although many of us have very recently started to experience occasionally biblical downpours, the situation only a month or so ago was very different indeed.
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LEGAL DOCTOR: EV charging kit on your forecourt - leases and licences
Our ‘legal doctor’ Robert Botkai discusses having EV charging kit on your forecourt and specifically, leases and licences