There’s a huge public appetite for reducing plastic in retail, but there’s more to establishing a successful refillable solution than meets the eye. C-Store looks at the issues to consider With plastic now being seen as public enemy number one, a growing number of retailers are investing in refillable solutions, allowing their customers to actively reduce plastic […]
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As retailers gear up for the reopening of businesses with direct street access, in Inverurie measures have been continuing to help keep the public safe. Later this week, plans for the Safer Places scheme are due to be finalised by Aberdeenshire Council which looks at traffic and pedestrian flow in the town centre. In the
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Whilst we’re all living through unprecedented times, it has been warming to read about some of the positives that have started appearing in the national news over the past couple of weeks, pulling out the human stories that give us hope. The simple fact is that crises can bring out the best in people –
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Convenience retailers keen to join the “refill revolution” are being offered a new route in, with the help of new social enterprise LocoSoco which offers a wide range of refillable household products at value price points. The solution, launched in partnership with Delphis Eco, allows shoppers to buy a range of concentrated ecological cleaning “shots”
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The Heart of England Co-operative Society has agreed a new distribution agreement with LocoSoco, the social enterprise which offers a wide range of refillable household products, including sanitisers, at value price points. The distribution agreement will see 35 Co-op stores fitted out with LocoSoco eco-refill stations. Heart of England Co-operative Society ambient category manager Philip
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LocoSoco Group, which provides refillable household products at value price points, has signed up more than 150 shops in the past four months. The company agreed partnerships with store owners from symbol groups including Budgens, Costcutter, Nisa, One Stop, Premier, Simply Fresh and Spar in the fourth quarter of 2019. In addition, LocoSoco has added 10
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Symbol group retailers are increasing their range of eco-friendly and sustainable products through a new partnership with online wholesale start-up LocoSoco. The company, which partnered with its first store last month, helps retailers set up their own website to sell more environmentally friendly products such as dishwasher powder, snack bars and toiletries, which are supplied
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Community Foundations of Canada is excited to launch the SDG Guidebook and Toolkit for community foundations. This package provides a detailed introduction to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the context of community foundation engagement and philanthropy. It provides practical, real-life examples of SDG-based work in local community foundations, as well as ideas
VisitFlanders, the tourism organization representing the Northern Belgium region, used local input to rethink its mission, repositioning its stance from growing travel for the sake of the economy to creating an “economy of meaning,” according to its master plan. That includes, among other initiatives, linking visitors with locals who share their passions for things like
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Swedish vegan milk producer Oatly AB secured $200 million funding from a group of investors led by Blackstone Growth. Oatly sold around 10% of its business in a funding round that valued the company at about $2 billion. The group of investors includes Oprah Winfrey, Jay-Z, Natalie Portman, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Rabobank Group,
