LEGAL: Prospect of plain-clothes police on licensed premises
Our ‘legal doctor’ Robert Botkai discusses the call to have plain-clothes police officers in licensed premises to help protect women
SECURITY: Be extra vigilant to prevent forecourt crime
Back in 1991, when BOSS was established, driving off from the pump without paying dominated forecourt crime.
SERVICE CENTRE: Problems with newspaper vouchers and smelly smokers
Jac Roper looks at how a newspaper voucher returns envelope problem gets resolved; plus advice on how to deal with a smelly smoker
E10 PETROL: The introduction of E10 and your wider forecourt strategy
Mark Griffiths, head of business development, Adler and Allan, supplier of environmental risk services, explains the maintenance impact of E10, and how the grade changes could affect your wider site operation.
SHOP TALK: March 14 - the Mother of all occasions
There’s good news and bad news when it comes to Mother’s Day, which this year falls on Sunday March 14.
MONEY TALK: The big boys in the playground
Naturally, the business and financial news in most of the media has continued to be dominated by Covid.
SERVICE CENTRE: An unhappy fuel supply ending
An unhappy fuel supply ending for Glasgow-based retailer
COMMENT: Green ambitions – the future of forecourts in the race to 2030
As Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s pandemic Budget edges closer (March 3) there is considerable debate over how the government will proceed with its mantra to ‘build back better and greener’.
COMMENT: The dawn for EVs is near, the time to prepare is now
In November, the UK government announced it will ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030 as part of its 10-point plan for a green ‘industrial revolution’.
SHOP TALK: Orange juices up chocolate sales
Some of you may have heard of the Netflix series ‘Orange is the New Black’, the title of which plays on the fact that the drama is set in a women’s prison in the US, where all the inmates wear bright orange jumpsuits.
LEGAL ADVICE: Welsh Covid regs and business interruption claims
Our ‘legal doctor’ Robert Botkai discusses new regulations in Wales as well as the Supreme Court case on business interruption loans