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The trade associations for the convenience retailing and wholesale sectors have teamed up with their members and major suppliers to launch a new Charter, defining and promoting standards of behaviour between individuals from different companies working together.  

The ’Dignity at Work’ Charter is a positive statement of high behaviour standards that companies can include in their own company policies and that businesses can sign up to.

The Charter sets out the following commitments for businesses to sign up to:

The government has announced today (25th June) plans to introduce a new law requiring food businesses to include full ingredients labelling on foods prepacked for direct sale.

Defra defines prepacked food for direct sale as applying to, “foods that have been packed on the same premises from which they are being sold. These might include a packaged salad or baguette from a shop that was made by staff earlier in the day, packaged in the kitchen and then placed on a shelf for customers to purchase.”

ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) is urging retailers to fill in an online template to help them respond to the Home Office’s call for evidence on violence and abuse against shop staff. The call for evidence is closing on Friday 28^th June and retailers can contact ACS if they need help with their response.

ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) has responded to the publication of HM Revenue and Customs’ report on the prevalence of non-duty paid alcohol and illicit tobacco in the UK. ACS is reiterating calls for targeted action at a local level to reduce the impact of the illicit trade on responsible retailers.

ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) is encouraging all convenience store retailers that sell tobacco to make sure that they have the codes they need to comply with the track and trace regulations.

The regulations came into force on 20^th May 2019 and require retailers to have an Economic Operator Identifier Code (registered to their business) and a Facility Identifier Code (for each of their stores) in order to purchase compliant cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco products.