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Awards Profile – Innovation in Impulse

1 April 2022

Awards profile – Bakery Retailer of the Year (Independent Store) 2017

Whole new world

The main bakery fixture at Spar, Hillfoot Road in Ayr takes a prime position in Aisle 1 of the store. Wrapped bread and loose rolls take up the first section of the fixture. As consumers make their way down the aisle they pass morning goods in the second fixture section. The substantial local popularity of cake means those products take a large space in the third segment. To make way for the cakes, Spar-branded part-baked bread and world breads are merchandised in a free-standing display unit at the start of the fixture, and the products do well there. The main fixture ends with bake-off products.

Award profile – Bread and Bakery of the Year Award 2014

Play staff discipline issues by the book

Tanya Wilson winning employee of the year receiving her award

Awards Profile – Employee of the Year 2021

1 November 2022

Scottish Grocer caught up with Tanya Wilson, store manager at Spar Eastriggs and winner of Employee of the Year at the 2021 Scottish Grocer Awards.

The daily excellence – Bread and Milk Retailer of the Year

1 February 2014

CONSUMERS visiting the Best-one store and Post Office in the Dunbartonshire village of Cardross don’t all realise they’re popping in to an award-winning shop. It’s...

Award profile – spirits retailer of the year

5 February 2019

Winner: Great Glen Trading Centre, Fort Augustus Award: Spirits retailer of the year Sponsored by: Whyte & Mackay

Awards profile – The Dairy Award (Independent Store) 2016

6 September 2017

Winner: Spar, Renfrew The Dairy Award (Independent Store) Sponsored by: Müller

Awards profile – Chilled retailer of the year 2016

12 July 2016

Winner McLeish, Inverurie Chilled Retailer of the Year 2016 Sponsored by: Kerryfresh, Scotty Brand and McIntosh of Strathmore Winner details Size: 1500 sq ft - Symbol: KeyStore Staff:...

Joining the Club

1 July 2018

Retailer Iqbal Sadiq discusses the impact of the revamped Kensitas Club at St George’s Post Office and Spar Maryhill

Rolling with regulations

1 November 2017

Awards profile - Tobacco Retailer of the Year Award. Interview with Akhtar Muhammed.

Mitchells goes its own way

9 September 2016

Awards profile – licensed retailer of the year Winner: Mitchells Inverurie, Aberdeenshire Licensed Retailer of the Year 2016 - sponsored by Whyte & Mackay Interview with Keith Whyte, partner,...

SG interview: Daniel Johnson MSP ‘Time to act on retail crime’

1 March 2018

Assaults “unacceptable” says MSP.

Ask the expert – RVM Systems

1 November 2022

RVM Systems Managing Director Claudia Marshall on DRS preparations and the benefits of reverse vending machines for retailers.

Shakeel Arshad, Spar

1 June 2015

Shakeel Arshad owns two Spar stores, the 1800 sq ft Spar store and Post Office in Bishopmill, Elgin, and the 1000 sq ft Spar...

Awards profile – Sustainable Retailer of the Year

1 August 2013

Our winners: Life and Times Shahid (Mo) and Rukhsana(Roxy) Razzaq, owners, Mo’s Convenience Store, Blantyre, Lanarkshire – Scottish Grocer Sustainable Retailer of the Year 2013,...

Mackies at Taypack crisps are made at a fourth-generation farm in Perthshire.

Meet the Maker: Mackies at Taypack

1 February 2022

Melissa Hack, national account manager, talks crisps, provenance and the joys of pickled onion

Focus on the future

3 February 2016

Interview with Saleem Sadiq, owner of Spar, Paisley Road, Renfrew The winner of the Retail Technology Award 2015 – sponsored by the Retail Data Partnership Winner details Size:...

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Experts discuss how to make c-stores more profitable and sustainable

1 October 2019

In the third Convenience Conversation of 2019, the panel discuss the need for innovation to survive

SGF: “Prepare for the worst”

7 April 2015

C-STORE owners who have faced the challenge of a supermarket or discounter moving into their area told other retailers what to look out for...

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