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Chris Cobb in his Keystore in Cults in Aberdeen. Having a Tesco and a large Cosutcutter nearby means he doesn’t sell as much bread and milk as might otherwise be the case. To be different, he brings in products from local specialist bakers, which do well. Confectionery and tobacco are big sellers.

Work out the critical lines

HOW do you define a c-store and which products and services should be considered essential to a typical convenience store’s existence? Well, the grocery industry...
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First past the post as Georgie flags up our store leaders of 2014

• Blantyre champions given top achievement award • Spar takes a magnificent seven • Old and new winners signal Scottish c-stores are powering ahead IT was the...
Colin McLean, chief operating officer of Scotmid Co-operative cuts the 100th bakery cake watched by Stephen Brown, bakery and local sourcing manager, second left and operations, support and regional business managers.

Baking up a hot one hundred

SCOTMID Co-operative and a series of local Scottish bakers are celebrating after the Edinburgh-based independent co-op opened its 100th in-store local bakery in Scotmid,...
Scottish Grocer Awards 2014

2014 Roll of Honour

Chilled Store of the Year Sponsored by Müller Wiseman Dairies Winner: McLeish, Inverurie Highly Commended : Best One, Summerhill Court, Aberdeen • Spar, Boswell Park, Ayr City...
Been there, ate it, got the T-shirt! Three gentlemen in Scotmid show they’re hot stuff after each devouring a Stuart’s Fiery Pie.

Scotmid’s life of pie

IS independent co-operative Scotmid going pie-eyed? The retailer invited brave consumers in some of its stores to ‘try a Fiery Pie’. The pies, made by baker...
Colin Smith, centre, managing director of Lothian Stores, with fellow directors Graham Benson, left, and David Sands, right, on site at the Pinkie project near Musselburgh.

A shop of all the talents

TAKE a portion of long wholesaling experience, add more than a dash of award-winning retailing nous and mix it with a significant quantity...
Spar

City store opens the doors

DUNDEE’S latest Spar stores has opened its doors in the city’s Albert Street. Owners the Asif family bring a wealth of 32 years retail experience...
Warburtons

Called to the crumpets

MAYBE we’re just not daft about afternoon tea, or perhaps we simply haven’t developed the habit, but it seems Scots are letting the side...
Keith Fernie

David Sands back in retail

CONVENIENCE retail entrepreneur David Sands is returning to the industry with a new store – trading under the Nisa Local fascia – in Glenrothes. Sands,...
Jane Green

Considering reasonable questions of faith

Can an employee refuse to work on a Sunday or ask to be excused from serving alcohol because of their religious beliefs? Individuals have...
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...
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...
2014

Kicking off Scotland’s big year

FOR many Scots 2014 was always going to be a big year. The 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn occurs in June and there’s...
Rakesh Sood, left, and Naresh Gajri, right, in their refurbed Cranhill Premier and Post Office. The major project, which included significant structural work and then a complete seven-day refit carried out by SAS Shopfitters, was a top-to-toe transformation of the 2,700 sq ft unit that sees high specification materials and equipment used throughout the shop.

East side story – Prudent partners undertake refurb

Jen Bowden finds out how Naresh Gajri and Rakesh Sood are brightening shopping on a city housing scheme and making big savings on energy CRANHILL,...
Family Shopper

Mo adds new store to the family

THE first Scottish store running under Booker’s new discount fascia Family Shopper has opened on Main Street in High Blantyre.
A little something for the cold

Kingsmill offer a little something for the cold

ALLIED Bakeries aims to make the best of the winter by providing comfort foods for consumers who are facing up to the cold weather...