BETTER RETAILING FESTIVAL AND AWARDS
Improve your store with tips from the UK’s top retailers BR FESTIVAL
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LEARN TO SUCCEED Retailing Festival The inaugural Better with top advice on provided retailers businesses. ays how to improve their s the main takeaw ALEX YAU outline
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TACKLING RETAIL CRIM
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“Incidents are increasing is our staff to greet everyone in our stores and my worry major topic get in.” will go to work SHOP crime was a retailers who comesCo-op chief execu- that colleagues home safely. at the festival, with Central imand not return Robinson added: the right to rehighlighting the ongoing Explain- tive Debbie massive issue. My Everybody has I write to is a pact on their stores. turn home safely. the issue “Theft the prime go into schools to ing how she tackles Fiona colleagues and the home secretary, in an affordable manner, about violent attacks Not minister and every MP in a Stores & talk them. when there is Malone, of Tenby area the impact it has on re, particular also the moment, but Post Office in Pembrokeshi I share the graphic out in a just in fami- an incident. said: “Lay your store difficult on their lives and their detail of what’s happened.” it stop. way where it makes We lies. It has to for shoplifters to navigate.
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VAPE BAN ‘DEVASTATION’ • Government to outlaw disposables from June 2025, costing stores ‘sales, footfall and profit’ • Revealed: how to prepare your business for the crackdown P3
BUDGET
SHOPLIFTING
PRICE-MARKED PACKS
Stores to be hit by wage changes, alongside vape and tobacco duty
Newly released ONS figures reveal record number of offences across the UK
How to manage the challenges around the format across your shop
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MEETING COMMUNITY NEEDS
based products.” be food-serviceand continue to In a separate masterclass, re‘How to Do tough, Food GB&I but we are seeing IN Mars Wrigley’s Suntory Beverage & master- tough, pressure on household national account manager Ela Great Range Review’ wholesale duced That’s great news liot Sleath advised retailers to class, the supplier’s lead, spending. are this sector. People category development their own circles retailers within fre- look within engagement out to shops more Fiona Martin, said to boost going re- for community the relationhad an opportunity current quently. Convenience can “Look at the of the seg- ideas. retailimpulse sales in ally drive this part ships with your fellow doing are already climate. at ment. big de- ers, as many She said: “Just lookingpast “We know there’s things,” he said. the and more amazing fresher for the current market, have been mand couple of years