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Independent retailers will need to offer their customers great value in order to weather the cost-of-living crisis – and invest in technology to future-proof their businesses. Those were two of the key take-aways from the Association of Convenience Stores (ACS) conference, which took place in Birmingham at the end of last month (April), attended by …

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