Spar has opened the UK’s first combined main post office and convenience store
in London this week. Rather than sectioning off the post office behind glass windows, the open plan
design at Westminster Bridge Road enables customers to pay for groceries,
apply for a passport, collect benefit and buy travellers’ cheques at the same
till.
Tesco must be applauded for the deal it has struck with US supennarket chain Safeway to export its Internet shopping model. With Safeway adopting the Tesco model of picking goods from stores and abandoning its strategy of using dedicated warehouses for fulfilling online orders, it has signalled that the UK is the recognised world leader in grocery shopping via the Internet.
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Read MorePalletFORCE, the newest pallet network to be set up, has achieved its share subscription is is now preparing to launch a UK hub-and-spoke distribution operation.
Read MoreCulina Logistics has secured a rolling storage and distribution contract with leading cheese manufacturer A McLelland and Son for its total UK finished products business
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