Awards profile: Tobacco Retailer of the Year
Winner: Mace, Edinburgh
Supported by: Imperial Tobacco
Thinking ahead: Ferhan Ashiq
East Lothian retailer Ferhan Ashiq’s new store utilises innovative thinking and new technology to make the most of a small space. Scottish Grocer paid...
Awards profile – Symbol Store of the Year (single-store) 2015
Winner:
Pinkie Farm convenience store, Musselburgh
Symbol Store of the year (single-store business) – in association with Scottish Grocer magazine
Interview with Colin Smith, owner (pictured...
Banking on category data
SCOTTISH food and drink brands are performing well, but they could be doing even better according to Amanda Brown, project director at The Knowledge Bank.
New directions
Kilwinning retailer Sandeep Dhaliwal has been running the family business for three years. His fresh ideas and a major refurbishment have yielded great results.
We...
Tailoring a service for convenience
There is no shortage of delivery options for retailers at the moment, with tech firms and entrepreneurs responding to the surge in demand for home delivery last year
Uncharted territory
In its first Convenience Conversation, Scottish Grocer invited a select group of retailers and representatives from the UK’s leading tobacco and tobacco accessories firms...
Awards profile: Bakery Retailer of the Year (independent store)
Winner: Giacopazzi’s, Milnathort
Supported by Warburtons
Autumn brings a fresh chance
The middle of September signals the start of freshers week: when swathes of young people head off to university and get ready for four years of (allegedly) hard work.
Awards profile: Health Promoting Retailer of the Year
Doonfoot Day-Today has an incredibly active social media presence with a huge reach. One post from the store has even gone viral and received five and a half million views.
Award profile – spirits retailer of the year
Winner: Great Glen Trading Centre, Fort Augustus
Award: Spirits retailer of the year
Sponsored by: Whyte & Mackay
New directions – Faraz Iqbal, Linktown Local Kirkcaldy
We ask some of Scotland’s young c-store retailers about their businesses and the key issues of the day.
Linktown Local in Kirkcaldy has been completely...
All pumped up after a revamp
FORECOURT retailer John Sommerville has joined forces with symbol group Mace to revamp his Bathgate store.
Taking the reins of a site he operated for...
Ask the expert – RVM Systems
RVM Systems Managing Director Claudia Marshall on DRS preparations and the benefits of reverse vending machines for retailers.
Someone to rely on
SCOTTISH Grocer’s Employee of the Year 2016, Katherine MacDonald, didn’t expect to ever win such an award.
Even on the night of the presentation, when...
Be careful what you wish for
May 31 was the World Health Organisation’s 2013 No Tobacco Day. One of the world’s biggest tobacco companies wonders if anti-smoking lobbyists have properly...
