All Forecourt Trader articles in July 2024 – Page 2
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Moto to add five more Changing Places toilets
Moto now has 30 Changing Places Toilets installed across its network, with five more to come.
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Zapgo to put EV chargepoints in pub car parks
EV chargepoint operator Zapgo is planning to join forces with the pub industry, with a focus on areas and communities that are currently underserved by existing charging infrastructure.
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The Gardners hope to clean up with in-store launderette
The Gardner family are trialling a launderette inside their newly refurbished forecourt store in Huntley, Gloucestershire, which they hope will give them around three times the income that the same amount of external machines could provide.
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Equipment News
TECH TALK: Gardner Garages boosts customer loyalty with Noumi app
After a successful ‘proof of concept’ trial at Euro Garages’ Beehive site, Noumi is now rolling out its tap-and-go paperless receipt and rewards device to 150-plus forecourts.
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Lower borrowing costs help fuel forecourt property market
Stable inflation and interest rates, and lower borrowing costs made it easier to buy and sell forecourts in the first half of the year.
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Unpacking the ‘Co-op in a box’ franchise
The Co-op wants to roll out its convenience franchise into forecourts to re-build a strong presence in the sector after selling its 129 company-owned petrol sites to Asda in 2022. But what has this to offer potential fuel retailer recruits Forecourt Trader asks director of partnership development Martin Rogers.
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Focus On Feature
FOCUS ON FORECOURT SECURITY: A £100m-plus problem
In the past, drive-offs were the scourge of petrol stations. Yes, they still happen, but not as often as no means of payment (NMoP) incidents.
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Forest of Dean District Council to decarbonise its fleet
Forest of Dean District Council vehicles, including waste and recycling lorries, will be predominantly electric or powered by alternative fuels by 2030 after a new route map to decarbonisation was passed by the Council’s Cabinet.
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Building starts on battery cell manufacturing facility in Somerset
Agratas, a global battery business within the Tata Group, has announced the phased appointment of Sir Robert McAlpine as the official delivery partner for Building One of its state-of-the-art battery cell manufacturing facility, near Bridgwater in Somerset.
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Man jailed for shoplifting at BP site
A man has been jailed for 14 weeks after stealing items worth nearly £700 from a petrol station shop in Farnborough.
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Danish researcher patents new material that could replace lithium
A researcher at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has patented a new superionic material based on potassium silicate – a mineral that can be extracted from ordinary rocks – that has the potential to replace lithium in EV batteries.
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Top 50 Indie Karan Retail acquires first site in southwest England
Top 50 Indie Karan Retail has made the first of what it says will be many acquisitions in southwest England, with the purchase of Chivenor Service Station in North Devon.
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Home secretary targets illegal car washes with redeployed immigration officers
Car washes will be targeted by immigration officers as they step up enforcement action over the summer, the home secretary Yvette Cooper has pledged.
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Police launch appeal after petrol station worker attacked
Nottinghamshire Police have released an image of a woman they wish to trace after a petrol station worker was attacked on the forecourt.
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A1 Auto’s granted permission for new hand car wash
A1 Auto’s Ltd has been granted planning permission to open a hand car wash and valeting facility on a former forecourt in Hylton Road, Worcester. The site last operated as a car rental business.
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New Welcome Break to open early next year
Welcome Break’s long-awaited new motorway service area near Rotherham is set to open early next year.
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EV drivers use ‘ghost charging’ to nab parking spaces
New research from Sainsbury’s Smart Charge reveals that over half of EV drivers (51%) admit to ‘ghost charging’ – a growing trend of pretending to charge at an EV plug-in point when there are no other parking spaces available.
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Bramley fuel leak update: no quick fix as clean-up expected to take up to a year
Asda has admitted that there is no quick fix to the problems emanating from one of its sites at Bramley in Surrey, with the clean-up process likely to take a year.
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Indie forecourts escape relatively unscathed by Friday's IT outage
Most independent forecourt operators appear to have escaped relatively unscathed from Friday’s IT outage which brought down thousands of Microsoft computer systems across the world and led to Morrisons and Sainsbury’s unable to take fuel card payments at supermarket sites.
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Staff at Sewell on the go trial bodycams
Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go is to trial staff bodycams across its 13 forecourts in Hull and East Yorkshire in a bid to deter shoplifters and abuse.