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Mandeep Singh Joins betterRetailing team
At the recent Independent Achievers Academy awards evening one of my family's stores, Singh's Premier at Herries Road, Sheffield was one of the winning businesses. My parents started the family...
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Dealing with local officials
I was kept busy last week, we were visited by an Environmental Health Officer and two Trading Standards Officers. It's two years since Trading Standards came last and six months for Environmental...
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Supermarkets going dark has given us a 30% boost in tobacco sales.
With supermarkets around our Sheffield stores shuttering their cigarette gantries ahead of the display ban deadline on 6th April, we have noticed a significant increase in sales. Booker, our main...
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Fun-draising with our local community
The 19th of May was a special day for Singh's stores in Sheffield as we were the key sponsor of a charity football event hosted by Sheffield United at their Brammall Lane stadium. The Singh's Charity...
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Working with suppliers to add value to our community
For me the community my family’s business serves is very important and we endeavour to do the things that will benefit the people that live around us. Apart from my family and retailing I have a...
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Building great business partnerships
I am a great believer in the value of partnerships to my business. The most important of course is the strong partnership that I have with my parents and brothers. It is this family relationship that...
View ArticleProdigious planograms produce preferable payouts
I am a member of the Partners for Growth retailer advisory panel along with 4 other great convenience store operators. One of the things that we all do is to test the planogram advice that P4G offers...
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Retailers Reveal #8: Mandeep Singh – Customer Service
What is the most successful idea you’ve ever tried out in your business? Taking out a gondola end and replacing it with a platform beer stack in 2006. Nothing else has ever given me such good sales....
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Retailers Reveal #19: Mandeep Singh – Doing Deals
WHAT'S THE SALES INSIGHT? You’ve got to go out and do deals: be cheeky and buy cleverly. If you’ve got a half-decent store you’re a valuable customer to your wholesaler and have room to bargain. I...
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Singh when your winning
On Saturday 18th May we held our second Charity Football Tournament at Bramall Lane home of Sheffield United FC. The first one was a year to the day last year 19/05/2012. Following the success of that...
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