Petrol station owners want thieves to lose their licences
Samantha Landy September 24, 2013 Herald Sun Petrol station operators say fuel thieves should have their licences suspended. Source: News Limited PETROL thieves should be stripped of their driver’s licences or lose demerit points, service station owners claim. Victorian petrol retailers are calling for a tough stance to discourage fuel bandits, which are reportedly costing servo owners up to $40 million nationwide each year. The Australian Association of Convenience Stores has been lobbying the State Government and police to take more serious action on fuel thefts in the wake of changes to the way intentional drive-offs are investigated in Victoria. As of July 1, Victoria Police will not investigate drive-offs unless there is clear evidence of a criminal offence, such as a stolen car or stolen number plates being used. Director of service station chain APCO Peter Anderson said his 18 Victorian franchises had seen an increase in fuel thefts…
Read MorePetrol theft is theft!
October 1st 2013 The Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) has again urged the Victorian Government and police to treat the genuine concerns of convenience store owners and their employees with due respect by taking petrol theft seriously, in terms of preventing and responding to this crime, and prosecuting the offenders. AACS CEO Jeff Rogut said service station owners, operators and employees have been left repeatedly frustrated at the lack of decisive action taken at a regulatory and practical level to prevent this crime and hold offenders accountable. Steal a confectionery bar from a supermarket or a lipstick from a department store and you will be prosecuted. But steal a tank of petrol from a convenience store or service station and unless the operator fills in onerous paperwork and provides all of the evidence to police, nothing happens. “Petrol theft is a serious crime which costs service station operators significant…
Read MoreNew Location Perspective in Retail: In the Zone
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Read MoreIreland Considers ‘Fat Tax’
NACS Online September 25, 2013 Food and beverage companies warn the government that such a tax would have little impact on obesity rates. ​DUBLIN – A tax on fat or sugar would do little to curb obesity in Ireland, food and beverage companies say, the Irish Times reports. In fact, such a tax would only drive shoppers into Northern Ireland to shop. The Food and Drink Industry Ireland warned the government that sugar or fat taxes would have little effect on obesity rates in the country. “Denmark has had discriminatory taxes on certain products since the 1930s and still has seen increasing obesity rates,†the group said. Denmark instituted a saturated fat tax in 2011, but repealed it in 2012 after concerns about cross-border trading, competition and jobs were raised. The industry pointed out that obesity rates continued to soar even though soft drink consumption dropped. With Ireland already staggering…
Read MorePetrol price war: Nine-month low after biggest single cut for five years
26 Sep 2013 Mirror UK Asda’s nine-month low of 128.7p a litre makes it the cheapest petrol in Britain after Sainsbury’s had ramped up the stakes An all-out supermarket pump war today saw petrol prices slashed by 6p a litre in the biggest single cut for five years. Fuelled by Sainsbury’s, prices tumbled as rival chain Asda joined the battle with its third drop in as many weeks. Tesco waded in with 5p off for shoppers spending £50 or more on groceries in its stores while Morrisons said it would remain “competitiveâ€. The forecourt ding-dong is great news for hard-up drivers, coming ahead of the weekend and saving an average of £3 on filling up a family hatchback. Sainsbury’s ramped up the stakes with its dramatic 6p cut, sending the cost of unleaded plunging from 135.9 a litre to 129.9p. The chain’s steepest petrol price cut since 2008 also brought…
Read MoreCoca Cola Amatil bolsters senior management stocks
Eli Greenblat September 24, 2013 The Age Coca-Cola Amatil has thickened its senior management ranks as it counts down to its December re-entry into the Australian beer and cider market after a two-year absence, appointing the former local boss of spirits house Campari as its new director of licensed alcohol. A new management structure sitting underneath CC Amatil’s Australian beverages managing director, John Murphy, has also been put in place that will span all of the Coca-Cola bottler’s alcoholic offering in the local market including beer, cider and spirits. It comes as CC Amatil is poised to unveil a fresh assault on the $11 billion Australian beer and cider market from December 17 after agreeing to stay away from the sector for two years. The self-exclusion deal was done as a condition of CC Amatil’s sale of its half-stake in in the Pacific Beverages brewing joint venture to SABMiller when…
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