Tag: forecourts
BRC hails ruling on card fees
BRITISH Retail Consortium members have welcomed the decision by European lawmakers to cap the cost of processing debit and credit card payments. The issue...
Women no fuel fools
WHO are more likely to cause a mini crisis on your forecourt by filling up with the wrong type of fuel, men or women?
Well,...
Jet turns up the heat
JET’S 60th anniversary activity continues with a consumer promotion running until 7 September.
Visitors to Jet forecourts will receive a code voucher to enter online,...
Scottish sites aim to learn and teach
THE forecourt market may be challenging but there’s scope to succeed and a group of sites in Scotland might show the way forward.
That’s what...
Counting on cash
ATM-using forecourt customers spend more than others and more than eight in 10 consumers plan shopping trips with ATM availability in mind, says new...
Brand, brand, voom
SYMBOL group Spar is continuing its programme to recruit forecourt businesses across the UK with a specialised package that includes Spar-branded fuel.
The first...
Supermarkets pump it up
After years of tax and wholesale price hikes, things were looking better in fuel retailing. But in petrol, things are rarely simple for very...
What women want
Should you make special efforts to attract women to stop at your forecourt store and use it for a comprehensive shopping trip? An American...
Rolling out the subs
BRANDED food to go, including hot food to go, is being tipped as one of the product and service categories with greatest potential for...
Jet finds Scottish diamonds
SIX months into the brand’s 60th anniversary year, the team behind Jet reckons there’s plenty in Scotland to shout about.
It says there’s a healthy...
Official statistics support our case says FairFuel UK
FAIRFUEL UK, the campaign to reduce fuel taxes that’s backed by the Road Haulage Association, the RAC and others, has claimed that Government thinking...
Drive-in darkness
Tobacco sales are hugely important to many forecourts. But next April will see tobacco retailing in all impulse outlets change dramatically when the tobacco...
Making the change
Ian MacBean has operated the shop at the Old Toll Filling Station at Overtown, near Wishaw, successfully for several years. But can the site...
No time to sit still at Silicon Glen station
11 years ago Polbeth Service Station joined Spar. The constantly improving owners have refitted, tweaked and renewed the store several times since then.
DRIVERS in...
Still chasing Scottish sites
FUEL brand Jet is continuing its push to sign up new independent dealers and sees Scotland as now established as one of its core...
Forecourts have to grasp the market
FORECOURT sites with convenience stores have a major opportunity to achieve commercial success in the coming years but only if their operators know the...
