BETTER RETAILING FESTIVAL
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Retailing Festival The annual Better with valuable advice provided retailers businesses thrive. on how to make their s the main lessons outline RETAIL EXPRESS
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they buy when they come in, That’s why we steered shared how higher. high-quality food. It from you?” Gray LEADING retailers Boost founder Simon customers towards to be first in the UK to ignore us they’re making urged retailers not (PMPs). stores dur- allows like gelato cakes.” packs come back to their mas- to trends Taylor- price-marked have seen ing the Retail Resilience Similarly, Chloe He said: “You of Spar Western Downs unique flavours for the chanterclass. Triple ‘a’ Green, in more is focusing on caAshan Chaudry, of nel and investment War- in Stafford, Foodhall in Nuneaton, focus tering to different occasions. PMPs, that’s because brands main meal his 21 are said s of the “There wickshire, consumer She said: in a week per cus- see the attractivenes is on “keeping the “Con- moments so local shops.” interested”. He said:are now tomer – are you prepared sumers’ expectations
LOCAL SHOPS STEP UP WITH HURRICANE MELISSA AID • ‘Big-hearted’ retailers and wholesalers
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shelfshop include electronic else. It guarantees edge labels, helping him save Torridon anybody KAUAL Patel, of Nisa added the future of your business. in updating promotions has the best time in south London, “You can have machine but and pricing. shelfrange and price, a reverse vending He said: “Electronic of the store, product one of make a differ(RVM) to the front edge labels are also Return this doesn’t despite the Deposit law un- ence if you don’t have people the best investments we have door. I can They can Scheme not becoming coming through the made for our store. every supermarket be costly in the short term, but til October 2027. really guarantee investment He explained: “We’re and will have an RVM.” term, Patel in the longer laying down that footprintwith Other investments his pays off.” creating that impressionbefore has made to future-proof customers, 18 months