Fuel supplier offers support for retailers
Certas Energy has launched a new online resource for forecourt retailers, offering free access to personal wellbeing tools, learning courses and a number of discounts
Posting profits
Award-winning local store Best-one Brownlie’s of Biggar added another string to its bow when it introduced a Post Office in August 2013. Almost two...
Pub to store deal rings the changes
We check out the new Nisa Local in Elderslie’s Main Road, the shop at the heart of a multipurpose pub conversion project in Braveheart...
Jetting into a new role
Fuel brand Jet has a new marketing boss in the UK, thanks to the appointment of Rupert Turner.
Convenience in Brief | Nisa, shopper trends and illegal tobacco news
Scottish Grocer highlights three news stories that provide insights to convenience retailers about Nisa, shopper trends and the illicit tobacco market.
Employee shares – tread carefully
Involving staff in ownership of retail and other businesses could be beneficial. But it could also lead to confusion over the status of different...
Small town chances for convenience?
Property firm’s report highlights Scotland’s changing retail landscape
LAST year saw signs of recovery in some of Scotland’s town centres, with convenience stores playing a...
Staying mindful of discrimination law
Employers must keep in mind that, despite Brexit, employment tribunals must still interpret equality legislation in line with European Union law.
Keeping abreast of parental leave rules
Shared parental leave, and in particular enhanced pay during shared parental leave, has come under the spotlight again in a recent EAT decision: Price v. Powys County Council.
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...
The power of partnership
SPECIALIST food broker the JFK Partnership has responsibility for what it sees as five major Scottish brands, Hamlyns of Scotland, Millar, Golden Cross, Nisha’s,...
Have your say on crime
The ACS is calling on retailers to provide information from the last 12 months for its 2020 Crime Survey
“Exciting prospects” for dealers in 2017
Certas Energy’s retail director looks to the future for the industry.
2017 is full of exciting possibilities for Scotland’s fuel dealers. That’s the view of...
Bestway buys Bargain Booze
BESTWAY is poised to snap up Bargain Booze in a deal brokered by administrators of the financially hamstrung wholesaler Conviviality.
Certas solutions for independents
Retail director Richard Billington sets out the Gulf case for independent forecourt retailers in Scotland
Edging ahead with software
Forecourt software provider EdgePetrol is offering retailers the chance to try its margin tracking package for three months, free of charge
