Australian and Chinese authorities have broken an international syndicate smuggling illegal tobacco into Australia, with more than 60 arrests in […]
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One Nation has escalated its tobacco tax position, proposing a 75 percent cut to the excise and a pause on
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Nhulunbuy sits on the Gove Peninsula in East Arnhem Land, about as remote as fuel retailing gets in Australia. Petrol
The ACCC is formally reviewing BP Australia’s purchase of a single service station, the bp Gateway site at Port Macquarie,
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The Fair Work Commission has ordered Endeavour Group to reinstate a 67-year-old Tasmanian retail worker dismissed over her response to
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Fuel excise is back at full strength. The 16 cents a litre of remaining relief expired at midnight on 2
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Illicit tobacco enforcement escalated on three fronts inside a week: a record fine of more than $1.1 million against a
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Australian fuel retail is a fortnight away from two price shocks landing at once. On 2 August the remaining 16
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Most operators can quote yesterday’s fuel volume to the litre. Far fewer could say whether their site margin moved up
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When the team behind a new Shell site in Dandenong went looking for dispensers, the safe advice was to go
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Australia’s illicit tobacco crackdown has entered a new phase, with enforcement now running hard in three states and, as of
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Ampol has completed its acquisition of EG Australia, finalising the deal on 30 June for gross consideration of $1.165 billion
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The Northern Territory has put an artificial intelligence model to work watching fuel prices, the first government in Australia to
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A group of California drivers has put fuel pricing software on trial, and the question behind the case does not
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The fuel excise relief that has held since April is not ending on 1 July as planned. It is being
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Most service station operators do not have a hiring problem. They have a keeping problem. Casual hours, night shifts and
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Ask most independent operators why they bought a service station and the answer usually comes back to freedom and a
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Viva Energy is understood to be weighing the sale of a portfolio of its petrol stations, most likely as a
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Legal tobacco has gone from a dependable convenience category to a problem one, as years of excise rises pushed customers
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The companies that dig up and replace service station tanks are consolidating, and the latest deal puts more of that
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In Part 1, we covered what every operator should have sorted before 30 June: stocktakes, reporting, hardware decisions and customer
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Three OTR convenience retail freeholds, one in Adelaide and two in NSW, go under the hammer at the Sydney Opera
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Four out of five cigarettes smoked in Australia are now illegal, and the states have stopped relying on fines to
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School holidays change the rhythm of a service station in ways that many operators do not fully capitalise on. Traffic
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Most customers who walk into a service station shop already know what they came in for. Fuel, a drink, a
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Ampol is preparing to more than triple its network of unstaffed U-GO service stations, following the ACCC’s approval of its
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The chairman of Chevron has warned that global fuel prices are likely to climb through June and July, as the
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The ACCC has approved Ampol’s acquisition of EG Australia, clearing the largest consolidation in the Australian fuel retail market in
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Independent service stations have something the major chains will never be able to replicate: a genuine connection to the local
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Every service station has them. The customer who fills up every Tuesday morning. The tradie who grabs a coffee and
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