RGDATA featured in the media this week with a members survey revealing that 72% of shop owners have experienced loss of service since the changeover to the new terminals. Click here for the RGDATA press release.

RGDATA's Tara Buckley represented independent retailers' interests at the recent Planning Sub Committee meeting of the High Level Group on Business Regulation. Read more..

The 2014/2015 RGDATA Annual packed full of news, business advice and tips from leading independent retailers is being posted out to members this week.

A woman who sued for breach of her data protection rights has been paid €10,000 by a pharmacy that showed her husband CCTV footage of her purchasing a pregnancy test. For more information about Data Protection rights and CCTV footage go to www.rgdata.ie members' section.  

RGDATA Director General Tara Buckley will attend a workshop in Brussels on Retail Establishment on December 3.  Read more...

Jobs will be created in the retail sector if the 4.25% rate of Employers’ PRSI is reinstated, RGDATA told yesterday’s Retail Consultation Forum meeting which focused on the Action Plan for Jobs.  

RGDATA has written to Ministers Michael Noonan, Richard Bruton and Ged Nash expressing disappointment that Budget 2015 did not address the concerns of the retail trade 

Among the other winners were McCaughey's Top/Daybreak, Castleblayney who won Forecourt & Convenience Store of the Year (Category 1); Griffin's KCR Texaco/ Londis, Terenure, winner of Best Food to Go; and O'Sullivan's Topaz/Centra Innishannon, winner of the Best Use of Category Management.