The winners having a ball at the 2022 Scottish Wholesale Achievers Awards.

Awards are an achievement

The Scottish Wholesale Association’s Achievers Awards, taking place later this month, will be the biggest ever.
RBS branch

Bank closures hit retailers

RETAILERS pulled no punches when giving evidence on the effect of bank branch closures on the convenience sector.
MSP for South Edinburgh Daniel Johnson

Time to protect shop workers

ADDITIONAL protections under the law for retailers and other workers selling age-restricted products have been given a further push

Circularity Scotland on the brink of collapse

DRS scheme administrator Circularity Scotland has confirmed it is on the brink of collapse after admitting it may not be able to pay staff this month.

Heard it on the grapevine

THINGS are changing in the wine market and retailers offering more unusual grapes could do well in 2018
Colin Smith, chief executive at the Scottish Wholesale Association, stands at a lectern on a stage at the SWA 2025 Annual Conference.

Scottish Wholesale Association puts sector resilience centre stage

With one month to go, the SWA has announced further details about its upcoming Connex annual conference set to take place in Glasgow in May.
If teenage girls and early 20-something women make up a large proportion of your store’s customers you might want to stock a fairly wide range of haircare products.

The good hair years

If teenage girls and early 20-something women make up a large proportion of your store’s customers you might want to stock a fairly wide...
CALORIE-counting readers made Slimming World magazine the flavour of year on news stands in 2012.

Mags lose weight – Slimming World tops the charts

CALORIE-counting readers made Slimming World magazine the flavour of year on news stands in 2012. The monthly dieting mag saw its sales rise 11.2% year-on-year...

More chances to win

Camelot has announce a new Lotto rule that will see millions of people win £5 in ‘Must Be Won’ draws from November
Tim Oates of Imperial Tobacco, left, and Grant MacBean, manger of Lomond Service Station in Jamestown, Alexandria, close to Loch Lomond, discuss the store’s tobacco range.

SG workSHOP: Project 3, Tobacco

BUSY forecourt business Lomond Service Station, close to Loch Lomond in Jamestown, Alexandria, presented an interesting case in our workSHOP series. Tim Oates, tobacco...

Plans are afoot

Lidl eyes expansion with new multi-million pound Scottish headquarters North Lanarkshire Council has given the green light to discounter Lidl’s plans to construct a new...

Sunshine sends sales soaring

Warm weather enjoyed by many in Scotland in May helped supermarkets
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From SGF to you

IF you are a retailer reader of Scottish Grocer you should receive a bonus with this issue, the latest edition in the annual series...
Shoppers continued to benefit from severe price competition between food and drink retailers but it meant like-for-like food sales in Scotland in June were down on the previous year.

Giants could do better

Giant grocers cleared of systematic price abuse but told to make promo deals clearer Despite concluding that misleading pricing practices are not widespread or systematic among...

Getting the word out

Spending big on Orangina A MULTI-MILLION pound campaign promoting Orangina is underway with the goal of reaching close to two million consumers over the course...

June food sales shine

Value edges up despite continuing price deflation AFTER months of near relentless decline the value of sales of food in Scotland increased in June compared...