The National Living Wage – the details
Staff costs changed significantly for many convenience retailers in the spring and there’s more to come with the NLW scheduled to reach £9...
A new style of retailing
From full-blown franchise store solutions, to parcel collections services, local dry-cleaning hook-ups, and opportunities to add a post office to a shop there are...
Food struggles again in May
RETAIL sales in Scotland in May continued their established pattern of year-on-year decline, said the latest Scottish Retail Consortium/KPMG Scottish Retail Sales Monitor.
The...
SGF talks tax at No 10
Minister says give us your online competition ideas
ONLINE grocery shopping and its effect on convenience retailing headed the agenda when the Scottish Grocers Federation...
Stocks running out say stores
STOCKS of price-marked packs of cigarettes are already running low, according to retailers.
Just a month on from the introduction of the EU Tobacco Products...
Thanks for the service
THE boss of one of Scotland’s main confectionery manufacturers, a long-standing newsagent and retailer and two men often said to have kick-started the UK’s...
Southern c-store chain heads for administration
MY Local, the convenience chain formed after the purchase of the M Local stores of supermarket chain Morrisons last September, looks set to go...
The summer slush fund
Much of Scotland was hit by an early season heat wave. What was the in-store effect?
LAST month’s heatwave boosted demand for summer food...
Sales grow but units slowing
C-stores will beat supermarkets while store expansion tails back
CONVENIENCE store sales should see significantly more growth than supermarkets’ in the next five years but...
Fresh foods rise for Nisa
WHOLESALER Nisa says sales to its store owner customers of fruit, vegetables and meat have soared since the launch of its fresh produce service...
One Stop pumps up the volume
MANAGED and franchised convenience store chain One Stop is running a special evening meal deal across all its stores as part of its latest...
Drinks register ticks the boxes
Scottish Wholesale welcomes new regulation
PRESIDENT of the Scottish Wholesale Association Eddie Lynagh has told the organisation’s members that the new Alcohol Wholesale Registration Scheme...
New chief at GroceryAid
STEVE Barnes, commercial and membership director at the Food & Drink Federation has been appointed the new Director General of industry charity GroceryAid and...
Research finds e-cigs users up
THE percentage of people in Britain who use e-cigarettes or vaping products has edged up to almost 7%, a result that is well ahead...
Discounters hit own-label
UK symbol groups have been investing heavily in their ranges of own-label products. But new research from FMCG market intelligence company IRI says own-labels...
Crossing borders for a kick-off
IRN-BRU agreed what brand owner AG Barr called its biggest signing of the summer when it was unveiled as the headline sponsor of the...
