Tom Fender managing director of TWC

TWC launches new digital platform for retail insights

TWC Group is launching SmartView Convenience, a convenience market read to help organisations understand retail trends and sector performance.
Training courses for the required Scottish Certificate for Personal Licence Holders should be in place from later this summer. Those who gained their certificates in the transition period up to 1 September 2009 will have to complete refresher training before 1 December 2014.

Early licence holders need to refresh – Deadline for resits

IT’S time to go back to school for some of the country’s earliest holders of the Scottish Certificate for Personal Licence Holders. The Licensing (Scotland)...

Don’t suffer a dressing down

Dress codes are a common feature of many workplaces, but recently firms have hit headlines as their idea of appropriate corporate wear clashed with...
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Landmark sales growing

LANDMARK Wholesale, whose members include Scottish wholesalers like JW Gray, Forteith, Sutherland Brothers and United Wholesale Grocers, says is latest financial year got off...

Making people Appy

Mobile phone apps are opening up new ways for retailers to engage with their customers IT’S been the best part of a decade since the...

Tapping into social can drive footfall

Convenience retailers share their tips on how to make the most of social media for your store .
Amy Gordon

Appeal decision affects holidays

Ruling has consequences for accumulated holiday pay, but potential for further action means issue isn’t settled

Seeking food waste help through tech

ONE in five shoppers would like technology to help them tackle food waste, according to new research from training and research charity IGD. When asked...
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Tips to tackle crime in store

The Retail Mutual shares its expertise

Positively NISA

Nisa Retail has its own in-house EPOS solution, Epositive, which it says provides wide functionality – from simple scanning of products to the handling...

Opening channels

IT’S time for wholesalers to harness technology to address the changing face of local and convenience retailing and Batleys is determined to embrace the...

Staying up to speed

If the claim that information is power is true anywhere it’s true in retailing. Knowing your levels of stock, current prices and margins...
Michael Dean, Malcolm Gunnyeon

Brexit – exploring the possibilities

by Michael Dean and Malcolm Gunnyeon While Brexit uncertainty is the new normal, it flexes and varies week to week. Soon we will be straining...

51,589 retail units lie empty

ALMOST a quarter of GB’s retail estate remains empty, according to the most recent research from the Local Data Company. In March, vacancy rates...
CJ Lang is now offering Equis.

CJ Lang expands its offer

SPAR Scotland wholesaler CJ Lang has been expanding its offer with new supplier partnerships
Pete George of Jet brand owner Phillips66 reckons the firm has a very strong story to tell on fuel security.

Still chasing Scottish sites

FUEL brand Jet is continuing its push to sign up new independent dealers and sees Scotland as now established as one of its core...