Sector
Convenience & retail
Convenience retail pays on both sides — card charges on the takings that come in by card, and banking charges on the takings that come in as cash.
Audited in this order
- 01Cash handling charges per £100 banked
- 02Card processing across a very low average transaction value
- 03Electricity, driven almost entirely by chilled and frozen display
- 04EPOS licences and scanning hardware
What we look for
What tends to be wrong in convenience & retail.
Specific to this sector, and drawn from how the contracts and meters actually behave rather than from a generic savings claim.
Cash is not free to bank
Handling charges per £100 vary several-fold between tariffs. For a shop banking £8,000 of cash a week this is one of the largest single line items in the audit.
Chilled display dominates the electricity bill
Load runs 24/7 and barely varies, so the standing charge and night rate matter more than the day rate.
Symbol group agreements can restrict switching
We check the group agreement before recommending anything on card or EPOS.
Priority order
Where the audit spends its time.
We work down this list. Lines further down still get checked, they just rarely move the number.
- 01Cash handling charges per £100 banked
- 02Card processing across a very low average transaction value
- 03Electricity, driven almost entirely by chilled and frozen display
- 04EPOS licences and scanning hardware
Other sectors
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