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Milk brand lends a hand

SCOTTISH dairy brand Graham’s has teamed up with mental health charities SAMH and Mind as part of its #MyGrahamsMoments campaign
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Full steam ahead for discounter

Lidl has announced it plans to create 220 new jobs in Scotland over the next 12 months.
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Global whisky sales up

SCOTCH whisky may play second fiddle to vodka in its home market but worldwide sales have been showing impressive growth. Scottish government analysis based on...
Prof Leigh Sparks’s (right),CPG meeting at Holyrood (left)

Nanny retailing?

Controversial research at the centre of the most recent meeting of the Cross Party Group on Independent Convenience Stores
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The party starters

No get-together or guising night is complete without some themed confectionery SWIZZELS’ themed variety bags are back for Halloween 2014, with bold new designs and...
Premier @ DUSA was crowned Best Soft Drinks Retailer of the Year at the Scottish Grocer Awards 2023.

Awards Profile – Best Soft Drinks Retailer of the Year

Scottish Grocer has been catching up with the team at Premier @ DUSA to discuss the store's ever-evolving soft drinks selection after it was named Best Soft Drinks Retailer of the Year at the Scottish Grocer Awards 2023.
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Retail boosters to run and run?

Functional drinks and glucose energy drinks provide some of food and drink retailing’s most valuable lines – sales growth in convenience stores has been...
Angela Constance, justice secretary for the Scottish Government.

ScotGov urges extension of post office compensation law

Angela Constance MSP has once again urged a UK-wide approach to clearing the convictions of sub-postmasters in a written letter to Westminster.

President Dan Brown

Musselburgh retailer Dan Brown has been inaugurated as the new president of the Scottish Grocers Federation

Awards Profile – Innovation in Impulse

OPENING a new store at any time can be a challenge but this must go doubly so during a pandemic. It was no small feat then, when Barry Oujla, owner of Barry’s Convenience Stores, and his son Steven, opened a new store in 2020.
Unilever has relaunched its Partners for Growth category advice programme.

New look for advice hub

Unilever has announced it is relaunching its category advice programme, Partners for Growth (PfG), with a new-look website.

Making the PayPoint

Scottish c-stores are helping to deliver important cost-of-living support through payment service provider PayPoint.

Getting ready for the menthol ban

MENTHOL cigarettes will be banned from 20 May, but there are some retailers, and plenty of consumers, who are unsure of exactly what this means.
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Society thrives in anniversary year

John Brodie welcomes positive figures for Scotmid as society celebrates its 160th birthday this month

Playing it cool is not for fools

THERE are few greater pleasures than a cold drink on a hot day, and with the school holidays bringing consumers out of the house,...
NHS report claims restrictions on volume deals have led to a drop in wine purchases

Multibuy ban ‘cuts alcohol sales’

NHS report claims restrictions on volume deals have led to a drop in wine purchases THE amount of alcohol sold in Scottish shops has fallen...