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Mumtaz Ali and his wife took to the Scottish Grocer Awards 2024 stage to receive the Tobacco Retailer of the Year accolade.

Awards Profile – Tobacco Retailer of the Year

6 January 2025

March 2025

6 January 2025
Flavours such as caramel and chocolate have been drivers of RTD chilled coffee, says Arla, the company behind the Starbucks products.

Starbucks RTDs says flavours fuel coffee demand

6 January 2025
Discounter Lidl has made forecasts across a variety of food and drink categories for this year.

Experts predict future consumer trends

2 January 2025
Scottish c-store owners were among the winners at the first Allwyn Local Retail Champions Awards.

Convenience, consumers and communities win cash

31 December 2024
Clare Redfern and John Upton run the Poolewe Village Store and say the PGMA is vital to their business.

Retailers buy into PGMA plus points

24 December 2024
Talysis says its new VOX system can provide insights when users simply ask a question of it – similar to Alexa or Siri.

Convenience in brief | Talysis, AI, Avens

23 December 2024
The new Belorante range of Italian wines from Treasury Wine Estates.

Market news | Belorante, Biona, Juice Burst

20 December 2024
Scoffable co-founder Daniel Jones says the partnership with Scotmid is exciting.

Scotmid teams up with Scoffable

20 December 2024
The Scottish Wholesale Association is among the organisations to give evidence to the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry.

Convenience in brief | SWA, BRC, Baxters

19 December 2024

Anger at rates relief decision

19 December 2024

Convenience channel shows resilience

16 December 2024
Producers, wholesalers and stores are being asked to make last-minute donations to the Scottish Grocer and FareShare Scotland Christmas Food Appeal.

Give a fair share to FareShare Scotland

11 December 2024

GroceryAid Scotland branch has new top team

10 December 2024

Meeting the party cocktail needs

6 December 2024

Mills Milk offers essentials help

6 December 2024
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