Scotland’s Speciality Food Show – Tastefully special
Scotland’s food year gets off to a speciality start at Glasgow’s SECC this month
RETAILERS who take food seriously have the chance to meet...
HLP is out delivering messages
The Healthy Living Programme has been taking its healthy cooking and wellbeing advice on the road to keep people well informed on the charity's work.
Putting a price on c-stores
THE importance of local convenience stores to their communities is the subject of research being carried out at Stirling University.
Professor Leigh Sparks, of the...
Lidl not letting up on Scottish expansion
Discounter dealing with more local producers than ever.
Ice cream of the crop
Nearly 100 years after his grandad opened a small cafe in Hamilton, David Equi has helped Equi’s Ice Cream become one of Scotland’s fastest-growing firms. We asked him how.
Last call for the Cadbury Great Retail Ideas Exchange
Mondelēz International has urged retailers to get their final submissions in for the Cadbury The Great Retail Ideas Exchange before the competition closes.
Food sales growing
Covid restrictions had a negative effect on retail during October according to the latest figures from the Scottish Retail Consortium and KPMG
Food on the way back?
February sales fall but rate of decline below trend
COULD we be witnessing the beginning of a sustained food sales fight back?
Total food sales in...
Digital retail and rising costs lead to job losses
SRC claims public policy and evolving marketplace hurting employment
THE Scottish Retail Consortium has warned that rising costs driven by public policy — and a...
Customers go wild for the newest flavour of MD 2020
‘I’ve never seen anything like it,’ says retailer
Price hikes set for take off
After years of static or falling prices inflation is just around the corner
AFTER a long period of food price stagnation or deflation things look...
A start to changes for inflation?
Overall inflation is showing signs of dropping, providing some hopeful signs for the future. However, food prices remain stubbornly high.
Encouraging food growth
FOOD sales in Scotland outperformed total retail during January.
Sobieski brings a global option to vary it up
Bringing in a more premium, global option to stores could help to tempt consumers to trade up, according to LMB UK, such as with Sobieski Polish vodka.
SGF: “Prepare for the worst”
C-STORE owners who have faced the challenge of a supermarket or discounter moving into their area told other retailers what to look out for...
GroceryAid launches #notbuyingit campaign
INDUSTRY charity GroceryAid has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of issues affecting thousands of people in the trade, such as debt, loneliness,...
