Inside Business
DRS trial a resounding hit with retailers and shoppers
The results from a three-store trial of Envipco’s Flex reverse vending machine clearly demonstrate that both retailers and...
Summit to chew on
Free samples aside, there was plenty for retailers to get their teeth into at the latest SGF mini-summit...
Food inflation continues to slow
The BRC–Nielsen Shop Price Index for May 2019 has shown that food inflation continued to decelerate in May...
Our man in Havannah
CJ Lang’s new Spar store in Havannah St in the east end of Glasgow is more than just...
Is own-label losing relevance in convenience?
There has been a long-term decline in convenience baskets containing own-label items, according to research from HIM &...
DRS: a retailer’s perspective
In the second of a new three-part series of forthcoming Deposit Return Scheme articles with reverse vending machine...
Number of Brits online grocery shopping falls by 4%
Brits now spend £12.3bn online grocery shopping, up 9%, but surprisingly the number of consumers buying online has...
Shopper pessimism around Brexit grows
Research among 1,000 shoppers carried out in the first week of March by HIM has confirmed a growth...
Retail employment falls for 13th consecutive quarter
The latest British Retail Council Employment Quarterly Report reveals that total retail employment has fallen for 13th consecutive...
Paypoint One: the all-in-one retail platform
As our six-issue series of articles working with PayPoint reaches its conclusion, we recap the key features of...