Opponents of plain packaging (PP) in Australia and elsewhere have claimed that the legislation would create confusion for retailers attempting to locate packs of uniform appearance. This, it was claimed, would result in increases in pack retrieval and overall serving times, 10 impatience with queuing among customers, and a consequent shift in patronage, sales and profits from small mixed busine...

BACKGROUND The contemporary Scottish diet is unhealthy and a risk factor for poor health outcomes including obesity. Over a third of Scottish children are at risk of being overweight or obese, and there have been calls to strengthen the evidence base on the role of the food retail environment around schools in influencing the consumption of unhealthy foods. METHODS We examined the food retail...

Welcome to the third annual Swedish theme issue of BJSM! The Swedish Society of Exercise and Sports Medicine (SFAIM) is proud of the ongoing collaboration with BJSM, and we are happy to continue to offer our members the journal online, as part of their national membership benefits. Today, new discoveries have many ways of finding a wide audience including through e-journals, the web, Twitter an...

Looks at the beginnings of Internet law in the UK. Examines two traditional areas of law which are currently coming under pressure in the English legal system – defamation and copyright. Briefly presents verdicts of actual cases from US and Australian law, and speculates on the outcomes of these cases had they been put before UK courts. work made by a fellow scientist on the Usenet public messa...

Conventional high street retailers face a multitude of challenges if they are to survive and thrive. Some of these difficulties arise from structural and economic issues; others may be sociological and demographic. However, to thrive, retailers must be perceived as being competitive, and must adopt innovative and invigorating strategies to maximise the potential of their situations while offset...

Conventional high street retailers face a multitude of challenges if they are to survive and thrive. Some of these difficulties arise from structural and economic issues; others may be sociological and demographic. However, to thrive, retailers must be perceived as being competitive, and must adopt innovative and invigorating strategies to maximise the potential of their situations while offset...

E-Business is expected to dramatically change the way business is conducted internationally, nationally, within states and at the local area level. Moreover, these changes are very likely to happen well within the planning time frames required for provision of transport infrastructure and services. E-business is defined as including e-commerce, either between Businesses to Business (B2B) or Bus...