Convenience is freezer king
Pizza and confectionery lead the field in a year when frozen food sales value holds
LAST year was another year of growth for frozen food,...
Eliminate cash handling
WHEN considering the issue of store security, a review of cash handling and collection is often advised.
The Scottish Safer Business Guide, published last month...
Awards profile – Collectables Retailer of the Year 2015
Fleming Gifts, Whitecrook, Clydebank
Collectables Retailer of the Year – sponsored by Topps
Interview with Gulzar ‘Iky’ Ahmed, owner.
Winner details:
Size: 450 sq ft Staff: 3 Period...
Can retailers prevent tax?
Industry responds to ‘shape up’ message from FSS
FOOD industry bodies and c-store retailers have reacted with concern to growing calls for the introduction of...
Shopper concern shifts to sugar
SUGAR has become the number one nutrient concern of shoppers in the UK, according to Kantar Worldpanel.
Research from the consumer insight company shows that...
Off trade top 50 and most valuable brands
The range of drinks that convenience retailers have to consider, and potentially stock and display, has widened greatly in recent years. Today, with our...
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...
Minimum pricing better than tax?
MINIMUM unit pricing or alcohol-content taxation would reduce inequalities in health more than increasing alcohol duty under the current tax system or increasing VAT...
Healthy loyalty
AWARD-WINNING Premier retailers Dennis and Linda Williams are preparing to launch a new initiative to get local kids eating more healthily.
1,000 local schoolchildren are...
Protect store workers
SGF looks to rekindle attempts to get emergency service link.
THE Scottish Grocers Federation has called for shop workers to be given the same legal...
JTI launches TPD2 plan
BIG changes come to tobacco manufacturing this May and major changes will affect tobacco retailers a year later thanks to the implementation of the...
Tennent’s puts info on the can
TENNENT’S Lager is to print nutritional information on its cans and bottles from later this month. The move is the first in a series...
Reduce rates to counter NLW
THE Scottish Retail Consortium has urged chancellor George Osborne to cushion the costs to large businesses of the Apprenticeship Levy in his budget on...
Ready for the biggest night
WE’RE almost there. After months of judging visits that reached all across Scotland the finalists have been chosen and we’re all ready for the...
Alcohol Bill officially bites the dust
THE members bill brought forward by Labour Scottish Parliamentary health spokesman Dr Richard Simpson has officially fallen after MSPs in a full sitting refused...
Cards take 79% of total retail sales
ALMOST four in every five pounds of spending at British retailers is now made through debit and credit cards, according to new data. The...
