BP

  1. Channel: Convenience
As the nation gears up to hit the road over the Easter weekend, BP has shared how people are expected to shop during one of the busiest travel periods of the year. BP anticipates sales of over two million chocolate eggs as customers stock up… This story continues at BP predicts record sales of over […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
BP has announced the appointment of former M&S franchise director David Phillpot as convenience trading director, Europe. Phillpot brings over 25 years of experience in diverse food retail roles. In his most recent role as franchise director, he led relationships and commercial plans with all… This story continues at BP strengthens convenience retail team with […]
  1. Department & Category
  You all know the old adage ‘When you can’t beat them join them’.  Well at Dash-In convenience stores they have been watching the ilk of Sheets and Wawa gobble market share by providing customers a once unique experience now a common place experience. That being restaurant quality meals from a non-traditional restaurant footprint and […]
  1. Shopper & Customer
  The fast-food sector drive-thru has set a standard for service or perceive fast, friendly, convenient service that consumers like. According to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® “elevating customer service in the minds-eye of the consumer that is equal too or better than the ‘drive-thru’ should be the goal of […]
  1. Channel: Dollar/Value
[[ by BP has appointed former Lidl UK marketing director Claire Farrant as VP of marketing for its mobility and convenience retail business in Europe. Farrant spent ten years in senior positions at Tesco prior to joining Lidl in 2015. At Lidl, she played a crucial role in expanding the retailer’s market share and was […]
  1. Merchandising
BP has strengthened its BPme Rewards loyalty scheme with the launch of loyalty pricing – giving customers exclusive discounts on retail store products. BPme Rewards Price discounts will be automatically applied at the till on selected products, including M&S Food and Wild Bean Cafe, when customers scan their BPme Rewards card or app at around […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
MAPCO has launched its second checkout-free store. The Grabango powered location can be found in Nashville, Tennessee. “We’re thrilled to bring Grabango’s seamless checkout experience to additional Nashville customers, who want quick and efficient visits,” says Frederic Chaveyriat, CEO at MAPCO. “We are seeing an increasing number of our shoppers opt for this faster, convenient […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
  When your competitors evolve and you don’t more often than not that spells trouble.  Here is why, consumers over acknowledge that they like change that is slow. What they do like even more than change is ‘discovery’ according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®. Johnson went on to say, […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
BP has signed a new agreement with Rontec, one of the UK’s largest roadside retail networks, to provide its market-leading fuels for the next five years. The deal covers 66 of Rontec’s sites across England and Wales, 64 of which BP currently supplies, expanding the agreement with two new sites. The collaboration with Rontec supports […]
  1. Technology & Innovation
It’s Friday, the weekend is almost upon us, so let’s kick back and reflect on another eventful week for the retail systems space. Here’s your briefing on the most important stories from the past five days, including Walmart, Salesforce, Rohlik Group, Halfords, Amazon, and Oxbotica. 1. Walmart and Salesforce team up to offer local fulfilment […]
  1. Media & Marketing
Prior to the pandemic, Starbucks’ founder, Howard Schultz, stated that the way forward for brands is making your branded space an “experiential destination.” At that time, Starbucks’ CEO, Kevin Johnson said, “To survive, merchants need to create unique and immersive in-store experiences.” Covid-19 changed things for Starbucks as the company post-pandemic focuses more on drive […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
  Thinking outside of the box can help you understand why and where your customers are shopping when they are not shopping at your food outlet.  More important looking outside the box can help you look a customer ahead according to Steven Johnson Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.   Convenience store retail […]
  1. Channel: Delivery
Bp has partnered with Uber Eats in a global partnership that aims to make more than 3,000 retail locations available on the food delivery platform by 2025. The collaboration will… The post BP teams up with Uber Eats in global retail partnership appeared first on Latest Retail Technology News From Across The Globe – Charged.
  1. Channel: Convenience
By Orly Bar Lev, Cybersecurity expert, Mimecast. The holiday season is fast approaching, and consumers are turning to online websites to they make purchases- leaving them exposed to fake websites impersonating legitimate brands consumers know and love. UK Finance, the trade body for the financial services sector, said more than GBP27m was lost to such […]
  1. CPG: NonFood
More than half of UK and Irish businesses plan to run their Black Friday campaigns as planned or with further investment than originally planned, despite the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. This could spell good news for customers in the UK and Ireland after a bargain on Friday 27 November, with 55.4% of businesses […]
  1. CPG: Food
Co-op has announced that more than one million shoppers have now downloaded it’s digital Membership app, unlocking extra vale and personalised offers for Members as part of the new refreshed Co-op Membership programme. Co-op’s Membership programme was refreshed four weeks ago, and since then the app has spent time second only to Track & Trace […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
Fashion and lifestyle brand, Hush, has broken its daily sales record, with transactions exceeding GBP1m, for the first time with a new mobile-first ecommerce platform developed in partnership with digital commerce agency and systems integrator Astound Commerce UK. Founded in 2003 by Mandy Watkins as a womenswear label, the brand offers contemporary fashion, as well […]
  1. CPG: Food
The global pandemic has impacted nearly every aspect of our lives this year, including Britons’ Christmas shopping budgets, according to research by the Fashion Retail Academy. On average, people are planning to spend GBP341 on gifts this Christmas — 6% less than in 2019. However, despite prevailing uncertainty about how Brits will spend Christmas this […]
  1. CPG: Food
UK factories could be making up to GBP4.8bn more goods for British retailers in the next 12 months as the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit prompt businesses to bring home production. The additional orders, largely of food and fashion but potentially including DIY products and homewares, would be equivalent to the country’s entire current clothing manufacturing […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
“If there is no deal, we will be one of the worst-affected areas of the country…” When Andy Street wants to show off the best of Birmingham to visitors up from London, the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands starts his tour in Centenary Square, a public space the length of two football pitches. To […]
  1. CPG: HBC
The Black Friday sale no longer lasts only a day – retailers have already started discounting in the run-up to 27 November. Here’s a roundup of some of the offers: o Aldi is running a Black Friday sale online and waiting until the day itself to launch its deal. It is offering a Nintendo Switch […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
Electric toothbrushes are, once again, featuring highly in adverts for the Black Friday sales, with retailers making extraordinary boasts about discounts. Amazon claims to have slashed the price of an Oral B toothbrush by 74% from GBP229.99 to GBP59.99, while at Boots, a Philips Sonicare brush is “better than half-price”, down from GBP140 to GBP50. […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
Marks & Spencer will keep 400 stores open until midnight in Christmas week as desperate high street retailers scramble to recoup billions of pounds of sales lost to lockdown restrictions. The UK’s biggest clothing retailer said its “longest-ever” store opening hours would kick in on Monday 21 December, with two-thirds of its 600 shops opening […]
  1. CPG: NonFood
Games retailers have been overwhelmed by demand for the latest Sony PlayStation console, which launched in the UK on Thursday. The rush for the Playstation 5 – which in non-pandemic times would have sparked midnight queues and camping outside high street stores – caused the entire John Lewis website to crash for nearly two hours. […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
The fashion chains Peacocks, Jaeger, Austin Reed and Jacques Vert have collapsed into administration, putting nearly 4,800 jobs at risk. The retailers are all part of entrepreneur Philip Day‘s Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group (EWM), which warned last month it was on the brink of collapse. The Cardiff-based budget fashion chain Peacocks, which Albert Peacock founded […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group is considering a takeover of Mulberry after upping its stake in the struggling luxury brand to 37%. On Thursday, Frasers, formerly known as Sports Direct, announced a fresh round of stake-building in the company, acquiring 4.3m shares from the Icelandic bank Kaupthing in a deal worth GBP6.45m. The sportswear billionaire’s interest […]
  1. Channel: Convenience
Marks & Spencer will keep 400 stores open until midnight in Christmas week as desperate high street retailers scramble to recoup billions of pounds of sales lost to lockdown restrictions. The UK’s biggest clothing retailer said its “longest-ever” store opening hours would kick in on Saturday 21 December, with two-thirds of its 600 shops opening […]
  1. CPG: NonFood
Games retailers have been overwhelmed by demand for the latest Sony PlayStation console, which launched in the UK on Thursday. The rush for the console – which in non-pandemic times would have sparked midnight queues and camping outside high street stores – caused the entire John Lewis website to crash for nearly two hours. The […]
  1. CPG: NonFood
Games retailers have been overwhelmed by demand for PlayStation’s latest console, which launched in the UK on Thursday. Web pages dedicated to the launch of the PlayStation 5 at John Lewis, Tesco and Game had all crashed on Thursday morning. Currys had introduced a queuing system that had tens of thousands of customers on hold […]
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Shoptalk always brings the best and brightest minds of the industry together for four days packed with insights, networking opportunities, trend predictions and so much more. This year, the spring event in Las Vegas was no exception. But like many other major industry events, Shoptalk can feel like you’re sprinting a marathon — there’s so […]
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Amid faltering demand for shoes and clothing as well as slipping digital sales, Nike Inc. said last week that it will bank a lot more on the thing it has spent the past several years turning away from: other retailers. Executives discussed those plans on Nike’s earnings call, during which it announced that while fiscal […]

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