Ecochoice LEDs offer retailers good margins
Ecochoice LEDs are available across the convenience channel and can provide retailers with strong margins.
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Smartphone, mobile payment boom to impact retailers, SMEs
Cash is predicted to cease existing in the next decade: Consumer and business transactions conducted on smartphones through mobile point of sale transactions are expected to almost triple between 2014 and 2016 to $21.7 billion and digital wallets are soon going to hit Australia.
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Third tobacco excise takes effect
Three of four planned tobacco excise increases have now taken effect, with the government and tobacco industry continuing to “butt” heads over perceived outcomes of the tax.
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E-cigarette ban takes effect in NSW: sale to minors outlawed
New laws banning the sale of electronic cigarettes to children take effect in NSW from 1 September 2015.
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Convenience stores, premium fuels shine in Caltex half year
Caltex Australia has reported a higher net profit for the first half of 2015 to 30 June, with convenience store shop sales up 3.9% year-on-year to $1.2 billion.
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Woolworths Petrol to sell lottery products under more favourable terms than newsagents?
Concerns raised within Newsagents Association after move to allow Woolworths Petrol to sell lottery products.
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Whipped: cream canisters and ‘nanging’
The SMH has reported that some convenience stores may be selling whipped cream canisters to customers looking for a nitrous oxide high.
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BATA hits back at SMH allegations
The Sydney Morning Herald has revealed British American Tobacco Australia’s Freedom of Information requests.
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UK Public Health says e-cigarettes 95% less harmful than tobacco
A review has found that almost all of the 2.6 million adults using e-cigarettes in Great Britain are current or ex-smokers and suggests that e-cigs may be contributing to falling smoking rates.
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Tesco to end ‘unexpected item in the bagging area’
British retailer Tesco is to introduce a brand new audio voice to its self-service checkouts and the machines will no longer alert customers with the infamous phrase, ‘unexpected item in the bagging area’.
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Could convenience stores make better use of technology?
Insight into consumers shopping preferences shows potential for better implementation of technology
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ACCC releases June quarter 2015 petrol report
ACCC affirms that it is the market which determines petrol prices, at release of third quarterly report into Petroleum Industry
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Police investigate $1.7 million commercial theft of cigarettes
Police continue to investigate spate of break and enters and the commercial theft of $1.7 million in cigarettes from Sydney warehouses.
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