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The city centre convenience stores may be trading much better then anticipated especially in London.
Although the footfall is obviously down, potential customers are probably shunning restaurants and just settling for takeaway. A round of sandwiches and a drink paid for by contactless in a safe environment with everyone wearing a facemask has to be the best option.
Greggs have just reported that their sales are back up to 72% of this time last year and rising so there must be truth in this argument.

Norwegian company Equinor are at the forefront of the development of a low carbon future for energy production with wind power and green hydrogen projects in their portfolio.
This transfer of part ownership of Bressay to Enquest is part of that move away from carbon fuels therefore it is a major benefit to both companies.

https://www.equinor.com/en/how-and-why/climate.html

Load 72 is on its way to Singapore aboard Minerva Zoe with an ETA of 30th August.

https://www.equinor.com/en/news/20200731-transfers-operatorship-bressay.html

Exceptionally good move!!!

Brent seems to be just trundling along sideways at the moment - I cannot see that changing anytime soon therefore equities that follow Brent, like Enquest, will just follow the same moribund pattern.

Presumably Ammu shares the view that there won't be much downside - otherwise he wouldn't have topped up on HUR -unless off course HUR get a takeover offer. But BOO is a dead horse - lots more nasties to be revealed.

Greggs are reporting that their sales have now recovered to 72% of what they were at this time last year - that has to also be good for M&S convenience stores.

It will be very easy for Amazon to send out a tin of baked beans, some biscuits and a pack of toilet rolls in a box but they don't seem to have considered how they are going to deliver half a dozen eggs, a pack of frozen peas and a kilo of bananas - until they can create the delivery network to deliver a whole range of products they are only ever going to be a bit player.

The important thing is to get repeat custom - Amazon do that with Prime, Ocado do it with Smart Pass with holders getting free delivery and in Ocado's case offers as well.
Ocado are very generous with discount vouchers to new customers - these vouchers more than cover the cost of a Smart Pass for the first year and entice customers to commit to a Pass and become regular customers.
So although free delivery may bring in new custom it may not help retain those customers.

HK is now on her way to Scapa Flo with a very healthy looking draught of 12.1m indicating a probable load of around 500k.

It could be, the article mentions fresh and frozen but it seems to be just a very local operation at the moment.
Amazon seem to be floundering to get a coherent workable delivery service together for perishables - they need temperature controlled delivery vans to offer this service.

It seems Amazon are still intent on pushing forward with their equivalent to Zoom and are now making the service free to Prime subscribers. The offering is available in parts of London and Surrey with a roll out planned in other cities this year.
The BBC article focusses on the effect this will have on other online retailers with little understanding of current market conditions. It makes no mention of the fact that this is yet another blow to bricks and mortar retailers who offer home delivery from their stores.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53559116

It seems Amazon are still intent on pushing forward with their equivalent to Zoom and are now making the service free to Prime subscribers. The offering is available in parts of London and Surrey with a roll out planned in other cities this year.
The BBC article focusses on the effect this will have on other online retailers with little understanding of current market conditions. It makes no mention of the fact that this is yet another blow to bricks and mortar retailers who offer home delivery from their stores.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53559116

AIS is poor but it does look as though we have another hook-up to lift the remainder of the load - it probably started about 15.30 BST.

Hopefully for pension funds - that would be a great endorsement.

Has anyone compared the fuel costs for a local bus company switching from diesel to hydrogen using their own electrolyser system?

No cheer in the market today - all Covid-19 led.

For what ever reason the hook-up was brought forward by a couple of days and is now paused.

HK is now due at Scapa Flo on Tuesday evening, so I guess we will see another hook-up tomorrow - she was originally due at Scapa Flo on Wednesday morning.

In a way there has already been the radical merger that you talk about with the purchase of 50% of Ocado Retail - that will have a similar positive effect on the business.
I think the board have quite enough on their hands dealing with the current surplus of bricks and mortar stores without adding to that. Maybe they could look at online retail businesses as acquisitions - especially smaller companies with potential to grow.

Also was Magnus crude held back in storage at Sullom Voe?