Plastic leads to Mars recall
MARS Chocolate UK is recalling a number of products produced in the Netherlands after one was found to contain plastic.
The company is recalling batches...
Families snap up meal deals
Thousands of families have benefitted from a cash-saving campaign run by grocery delivery app Snappy Shopper.
Bravery rewarded
Graham's The Family Dairy has awarded one lucky consumer with a year’s worth of dairy products after a video of her pushing a dairy lorry up a hill during last month’s Storm Darcy went viral.
Scotland’s Top Brands: 7. Malcolm Allan
Spotlight on No.7 of the top Scottish food and drink brands of 2022, butchers Malcolm Allan.
Delamere points to popularity of flavoured milks
Dairy firm Delamere reckons c-store retailers can drive sales from its flavoured milks, which have enjoyed long-standing popularity and success.
Convenience in Brief | Snappy Group, Scotmid and Loch Lomond Distillery news
Scottish Grocer highlights three news stories that provide insights to convenience retailers about Snappy Group, Scotmid and Loch Lomond Distillery.
Single-use vape sales are in decline
Younger consumers across the UK have already began to swap over to refillable vape options ahead of the ban, according to research from the University College London.
Every Lidl helps
Lidl customers donated almost 40,000 packets of rice, tins of tuna, and cereal to the discounter’s ‘Teaming up to Tackle Hunger ‘initiative in the five weeks to Christmas.
Unitas launches own-label range
Unitas Wholesale has unveiled a new own-brand range, called Local Living, to help support retailer margins, as well as two new category guides.
Muscling in
Daniel Reeds, MD at health food marketing company New Chapter Marketing, considers what’s behind the high protein trend.
ONCE a niche sector dominated by powders...
Alcohol remains a driver for sales
Lesley Ann Gray, strategic insight director at Worldpanel by Numerator, offers some additional insight into the Top 10 Scottish Alcohol Brands in Scotland for 2025.
SGF offers advice ahead of the disposable vape ban
The Scottish Grocers' Federation has urged retailers across the country to not be caught out by the single-use vape ban when it comes in on 1 June.
Two more towns get their Greens
Latest expansion makes seven for Harris
Self service is made for forecourts
EPOS equipment supplier Point Four has launched a new self-service checkout facility that’s tailor-made for forecourt and convenience retailers.
ServeAssist checkouts have been designed to...
Asda Foundation funds Scottish foodbanks this winter
Supermarket charity initiative Asda Foundation has announced its has donated over £30,000 to Scottish foodbanks in time for the winter season.
Doctors back vaping option
E-CIGARETTES could potentially save millions of lives, according to a new report from the Royal College of Physicians.
The leading medical body says that...








































