All Forecourt Trader articles in August 2010 – Page 2
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Tesco trials UK’s first ’drive-thru’ supermarket
Tesco has launched the first drive-thru supermarket in the UK aimed at shoppers who don’t want to wait at home for a delivery. Run by the Tesco dotcom team, the trial started last month at the supermarket’s Baldock Extra store in Hertfordshire. Customers order shopping on the Tesco.com website in ...
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Food for thought
The Fraser Group had always found it hard to make a success of the food-to-go sector. Owners Robert and Hugh Fraser knew how important the category could be to a forecourt but somehow could not seem to make it work well enough for them until recently. The retailers, who ...
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Rate appeals top 2,000
More than 2,000 retailers have lodged appeals against the 2010 Business Rates. The figure was revealed by MP David Gauke in response to a Parliamentary Question who said there were 2,076 rating proposals outstanding relating to forecourts (excluding supermarkets) 1,966 in England and 110 in Wales. ...
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Go-ahead for M5 ’eco-site’
Westmorland Ltd has been granted planning permission for a new ’eco-friendly’ motorway service station on the M5 in Gloucestershire. Officials at Stroud District Council gave the £35m Gloucester Gateway project which will serve locally-sourced food and ban fast food outlets like MacDonald’s the thumbs up last ...
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Help and advice from jac roper
Chill out and save moneyIt’s been a strip-to-the-waist summer for much of the UK this year which will have put a severe strain on the chillers. Following my piece in the July issue on Jonathan James’ advice to put the doors back on them following astonishing savings, Mike Stayte of ...
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Tourists flock to site after Top Gear stunt
Fleet Services in Padstow, Cornwall, was recently given a starring role in an episode of Top Gear. The Jet forecourt was picked as a location after the three presenters faced a random challenge for the episode which was screened in July to build and drive their own ...
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All GO as chain opens it second automated site
GO, part of Northern Irish LCC Group, is this month due to open its second fully-automated site, at Belfast Road, Carrickfergus, Co Antrim.The new site follows the successful opening of LCC’s first GO pay@pump site in Cookstown in August 2008. The company said Go’s philosophy was to offer "competitive pricing ...
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Bag yourself some toffees
This year saw Walkers Nonsuch launch its new 150g bags of confectionery. Varieties include English creamy, liquorice, treacle, nutty Brazil, milk chocolate eclairs, assorted toffees and chocolate eclairs. To celebrate, the company is giving readers the chance to win a mixed carton of its newly-designed ’retro ...
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Bean feast
When it comes to a cup of coffee, us Brits are growing increasingly fussy. The likes of Starbucks and Costa Coffee have raised the bar on what we as a nation demand in a hot drink, according to Mark Rhodes, marketing manager at Westomatic.And this quest for a premium cuppa ...
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Beauty call
Forecourt stores are never going to be a consumer’s first port of call for their health and beauty needs they’ll go to the supermarkets, Boots or Superdrug instead. However, as full-blown convenience outlets, consumers will expect forecourt stores to stock the essentials. On a motorway or busy A-road site ...
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NewsUB rewards you with biccies
To celebrate the launch of McVitie’s first consumer biscuits ’collect and reward’ scheme, United Biscuits is giving readers the chance to win £50-worth of products. There are four prizes. The company says its McVitie’s VIP Club scheme rewards consumers by giving away tea break treats that can be ...
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Morrisons is victim of biggest-ever fuel theft
Police are still trying to work out how daring thieves pulled off one of Britain’s biggest-ever fuel thefts, by siphoning off £45,000-worth of petrol and diesel from a supermarket filling station. Morrisons, in Burton-on-Trent, was hit in a night-time raid on August 3, when the gang managed to ...
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Twix Fino - the new lighter bite from Mars
New Twix Fino is a lighter version of the best-selling countline bar. Based on the original Twix recipe, it combines chocolate and caramel but instead of biscuit, it has a light-textured wafer. Launching this month, it will initially be available through small independent retailers and other impulse outlets.Manufacturer Mars Chocolate ...
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Spar refit boosts sales at Hillcroft
Retailer Malcolm Williams has seen sales increase 15% since finishing a refit at his Hillcroft Service Station site in Newport, Wales. Malcolm, who has been a prominent local businessman in the area for the past 33 years, joined Spar in December 2005. Then his trading area was just ...
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Refinery sell-off may hit major fuel brands
RMI Petrol has warned that the mass exodus from the UK refinery market could result in the major oil company brands disappearing from the dealer sector. The comments followed US company Murphy Oil putting its Murco Milford Haven operation on the market meaning four out of the eight refineries in ...
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in brief
Fairbanks’ big deal Fairbanks has been appointed by Morrisons to provide tank alarm monitoring, wet-stock analysis and loss investigations. The company will also provide on-site meter calibration and verification services. This is all in addition to the risk assessment work it already does for ...
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Fancy buying a refinery?
Bad enough having a house to sell in uncertain economic times. But following Murphy Oil’s recent sell-off announcement (see News Extra, page10) how do you go about selling a refinery when you get the distinct impression they’re fast going out of fashion plus there are three others (out of ...
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Clocking on to profits
Everyone is familiar with the proverb about looking after the pennies and the pounds taking care of themselves. And never is it more true than in the delicate manoeuvrings of retail fuel pricing.But Andreas Jonason, director at global pricing consulant Simon-Kucher & Partners, speaker at our recent Top Indies Track ...
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Scoring with Costcutter
Costcutter Supermarkets Group has rewarded four retailers with a £1,000 prize for each adding extra zing to their in-store promotions during the 2010 World Cup. The company said the sites managed to boost footfall during the tournament by adding in-store theatre such as dressing staff in team kits, ...
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