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MoneyGram, the global money-transfer business, has renewed its partnership with 7-Eleven Australia for another five years. It says the partnership will ensure “consumers continue to enjoy the convenience of initiating MoneyGram transfers at more than 600 7-Eleven locations in Australia”. The continuing partnership will give consumers more transaction choices, MoneyGram …

A peak motoring body has urged drivers to check their batteries ahead of the upcoming long weekend for Easter. The warning comes from the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ). It has revealed that a flat battery was the number-one reason motorists needed RACQ Roadside Assistance during Easter last year. …

Australians are gambling less across all categories, according to new research, reflecting “a large drop” in the past decade. This is the overall finding of Roy Morgan’s ‘Gambling Currency Report’, which includes detailed questioning of more than 7,000 gamblers. Ten years ago, nearly two thirds of the Australian population aged …

A service-station attendant has become an unlikely internet sensation after he used a fire extinguisher on a defiant smoker. The incident took place at a service station in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in eastern China, according to The Daily Mail. Surveillance footage shows the attendant spraying a driver through the open …

Coffee and sustainability have been the twin drivers 7-Eleven’s recent success, said CEO Angus McKay at this week’s 2018 Supplier Awards and Business Update in Melbourne. McKay, who hosted the awards, claimed the company is reaching higher than ever to delight its customers, and is succeeding. Holding court The awards …

The NRA has welcomed Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s proposal to implement a single-use plastic bag ban nationwide from 2021. National Retail Association Manager of Industry David Stout says the retail sector applauds laws that are consistent across the country and allow enough time to avoid disruption. “Retailers are happy to …

US convenience stores enjoyed a 16th straight year of record in-store sales in 2018. But fewer visits makes the right marketing crucial. This is the message from the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) State of the Industry report. NACS describes the report as one of “the convenience and fuel-retailing industry’s …

Labor Leader Bill Shorten has laid out a plan to introduce Australia’s first national electric vehicles (EV) policy. It comes in response to Australia lagging behind its competitor countries in EV uptake and vehicle-fuel efficiency. In fact, Australia has ten-times lower EV take-up than the global average, Mr Shorten says, …

Drinking sugary drinks, or sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB), heightens the risk of premature death, according to new research from Harvard University. According to the study, led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the main cause of this premature death is from cardiovascular disease (CVD). To a lesser extent, …

Woolworths has completed the sale of its petrol business to EG Group and will return the proceeds via a buyback. The buyback will be off market and return $1.7 billion to shareholders, Woolworths says. The offer period will open on April 16. Shareholder value Woolworths Group Chair Gordon Cairns says …