UK convenience stores associations publish guidelines to help retailers faced with authorities seeking to curb alcohol sales

UK convenience store associations in the UK are making a joint effort to “produce new guidance” to help retailer members work through a program nationwide called “Reducing the Strength” and which aims to get stores to slash sales of hard alcohol items by making them less available.

The guidance sets out the competition risks associated with engaging with an initiative and provides retailers with a framework to assess the quality and effectiveness of an initiative before deciding whether to engage, said ACS chief executive, James Lowman.
There are over 84 different related initiatives under the program so the trade unions thought it would help retailers to provide them information on rights of competition so they would have some support “when they are approached by authorities running these initiatives.”