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Challenge 25 success fuels agent crimes

Scotland’s top cop tells licensing board ID requirements haven’t stopped kids’ drinking sessions SCOTTISH retailers’ application of the Challenge 25 requirements of the licensing laws...
lunch to go

Friday to go

WHICH day sees British consumers most likely to buy lunch to go? It’s Friday, says market research specialist HIM. The company’s Food To Go study asked...
NATIONAL Lottery sales grew 6.9% last year, to reach an all-time high of £6,977.9m according to operator Camelot. Independent stores account for 83% of all lottery sales and last year saw the company added a further 8,000 stores to its UK network, bringing the total up to 36,700.

Camelot claims Lotto lift-off

But overall sales look static NATIONAL Lottery organiser Camelot says the increase in prize values and ticket prices on its Lotto product has revitalised the...
David Martin

Fashion not food grows ahead of festivities

THERE was every sign that it was going to be a late Christmas for Scotland’s food retailers when the final Scottish Retail Consortium/KPMG Scottish...
Symbol stores and independents saw sales rise almost 5% year on year, said Kantar Worldpanel.

Symbols continue to outgrow giants

FOR the second survey period in a row Britain’s independent and symbol stores have grown sales at a much faster rate than the supermarket...
Imperial Tobacco

Tobacco giant adds two

TWIN-TASTE technology has been added to Imperial Tobacco’s JPS Silver range of economy cigarettes and the firm has launched a new RYO line that...
Owner Shahid (Mo) Razzaq, above, at his new Family Shopper store in High Blantyre. The store has been built in part of what was the Whistleberry Hotel. Sales are good but, at the launch, Mo reckoned they’d increase considerably once the unit’s drinks licence was in place.

Discount debut – Family Shopper stores

ONE of Scotland’s most-awarded c-store retailers has opened the first of the new Booker-supplied Family Shopper discount symbol stores in Scotland. Jen Bowden visted...
Carlsberg

Carlsberg joins cider group

CARLSBERG UK has joined the National Association of Cider Makers (NACM). The beer firm launched its Somersby Cider in 2012. Bruce Ray, corporate affairs director at...
The McLeish c-store in Inverurie, the town with the fewest shop vacancies in the recent LDC / Institute of Retail Studies study of Scottish retail properties. The Aberdeenshire town’s vacancy rate was just 2%. Nearby Banff and Huntly both had vacancy rates of more than 30%.

Unused shops rate hits 14.5%

MORE than one in seven of Scotland’s shops are empty, in a third of the country’s top towns seven out of 10 of empty...
Pasta

Pasta a winner in austerity Britain

ARE we on the threshold of an economic recovery? Consumers don’t seem to think so. Research company JWT London, a sister organisation of Kantar Worldpanel,...
More than eight out of 10 convenience retailers were involved in some form of community activity last year, says ACS.

Positive outlook but only just

Theft and abuse drop a little and Scottish store owners are ready to invest. But optimism levels dip below rest of Britain SCOTLAND’S c-store retailers...
The new post office in Glasgow’s Spar Maryhill. Owner Iqbal Sadiq said feedback from customers had been positive.

City Spar adds post office

SPAR Maryhill in Glasgow is now home to what was previously St George’s Cross Post Office. Store owner Iqbal Sadiq and Spar wholesaler CJ Lang...
SGF public affairs adviser John Lee.

Pain but no gain from plain packs

Westminster surprised many when it said it would look again at plain packaging on tobacco. In Scotland the powers that be are ready to...
After more than two decades as a non-affiliated independent the Arif family’s store in Glasgow’s Pollok has been refitted as a new Day-Today.

City shop is a small wonder

VIRTUALLY every piece of research published on the subject in recent times says symbol (or fascia) stores are booming. Wholesalers with fascia operations can...
Ronald Maclennan, right, helps some very important people cut the ribbon at Maclennan’s Supermarket on Benbecula.

Island dream – Makeover for Benbecula independent

Ronald Maclennan had wanted to transform his Benbecula store for several years. Last summer his dream became reality. He now has one of the...
Local store owners are backing their communities by investing hard cash in their shops and providing jobs, says Association of Convenience Stores chief executive James Lowman.

Scottish stores ready to spend

MUCH of the Scottish c-store scene looks set for a huge makeover in 2014 as operators north of the border get ready to invest...
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