Are you one of Scotland’s star retailers? Well, we want to hear from you. Once again Scottish Grocer & Convenience Retailer is beginning its annual search for the very best in Scottish convenience retailing – the Scottish Grocer Awards programme. To take part, all you have to do is check out the criteria for the category or categories you wish to enter and submit your entry via our online form.

You may enter up to three categories per store. While each category has set criteria, please feel free to include background information or pictures of your store if you believe it will help to highlight the great work you do. This year, you may also submit your entries with a video response.

With a range of award categories designed to cover every aspect of independent and convenience retailing, the Scottish Grocer Awards give the industry the opportunity to celebrate enterprise, innovation and success.

The Scottish Grocer team will collect together all entries into the Awards for this year to begin the shortlisting process for the awards. Six stores will be selected per award category that will each be visited by a team of Scottish Grocer judges. This will include a representative from the Scottish Grocer, a representative from the category sponsor as well as a third independent judge.

After the judging process concludes, the three will then deliberate on the stores they visited to choose two highly commended stores that performed exceedingly well in the category as well as one outright winner. The three finalists will then be revealed shortly after the judging process concludes before the winner is announced on the evening of the Scottish Grocer Awards 2025.

For support with entry submissions please contact the event organisers by phone or email.