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FOOD BANK DEAL
QUINN’S HITS 6K COVID DELIVERIES
Baby and toddler food
NORTHER IRISH SPAR GROUP QUINN’S HAS DESPATCHED OVER
company Piccolo, backed
6,000 HOME DELIVERIES UNDER COVID USING THE APPETITE APP.
by Prue Leith, is running a ‘One for you, One for mum’ campaign with Waitrose until the end of this week. Every pouch purchased through Waitrose will be matched and gifted to a food bank. So far the campaign has seen the brand donate over 50,000 meals to vulnerable families.
BE KIND CALL With the prospect of nonessential stores reopening on 12 April, retail trade union Usdaw is calling on customers to follow the rules and respect shopworkers, and for retail staff to be prioritised for
Quinn’s Spar Group, which owns two Spar stores in Cookstown, Co Tyrone in Northern Ireland, is celebrating served over 6,000 home deliveries in 10 months since setting up the dedicated service for the local community. Martina Kilpatrick, co-owner, began home deliveries in April last year for those living in the area. She said: “We introduced Appetite shortly after the initial national lockdown in April 2020. The service was established as a community service during the lockdown for the vulnerable and selfisolating and for those who wanted the local service they were used to from visiting the Quinn’s group of stores. The service grew quickly, peaking at over £21,000 in May with average
basket spends of £54. Around 90% of Appetite users are new customers. Appetite is one of the only worldwide home delivery, click-andcollect and food-to-go apps that can be fully linked with Henderson’s EDGEPoS EPoS system, ensuring live stock reporting on the app and on EDGEPoS back office at the same time.
vaccination. Incidents of abuse towards shopworkers doubling during lockdown.
RECORD ONLINE SALES The latest ONS Retail Sales data for January shows that the proportion of retail sales that were completed online
BAG CHARGES SUSPENDED FOR DELIVERIES The requirement to charge for single use carrier bags used for certain types of delivery and collection has temporarily been suspended in Scotland until 31 May 2021, in response to the Covid-19 outbreak and at the request of retailers. The exemption from the requirement to charge will apply to: Q grocery deliveries, no matter how the order is placed Q collection of groceries ordered in advance (for instance click-and-collect services offered by supermarkets) Q both the collection and delivery of takeaway food.
reached a record high. Wider retail sales plunged at the fastest rate since the pandemic broke last year as January blues were heightened by further lockdown restrictions.
It should be noted that this does not prevent any retailer continuing to charge for SUCBs used for these purposes if they choose to do so, and does not affect the wider charge or the existing exemptions from it. The minimum price of a single use carrier bag is set to increase from 5p to 10p from 1 April 2021.
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