2025 digital editions

January

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Delivering value
Top techniques to give your store an edge over rivals

Store profile
Inside Premier Dunbar

Scottish Budget
A kick in the teeth for convenience stores

Above & Beyond Awards
Last chance to enter your colleagues!

February

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Footfall drivers
Thriving food-to-go retailers share their recipes for success

2 Minutes
Global Brands’ Dan McPherson talks RTDs

Breezer fever
Canny retailers cash in on retro trend

SLR Awards
Last chance to submit your entries

March

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Delivering success
Retailers reveal how they’ve revved up their home delivery

Big interview
Veteran retailer John Murray keeps it in the family

Burger me!
PGNJ Group opens a fast-food restaurant

Above & Beyond Awards
Shortlist unveiled!

April

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Above & Beyond Awards
We celebrate local retailing’s unsung heroes

SGF Crime Seminar
Event reveals extent of retail crime

Checkout Festival
GroceryAid Scotland’s music event returns

Slush scare
Slush safety in spotlight

May

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Retail crime
New £3m Scottish Retail Crime Taskforce launched

Appointments
Mike Leonard returns to UWS

Local sourcing
SGF’s Go Local programme gets £195k boost

SLR Awards
This year’s shortlist unveiled

June

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Healthy retailing
Younger generation drives demand for healthier options

Retail crime
Five arrested and 12 charged in ‘Day of Action’

DRS
Scheme operator announced

Going Loko
Four Loko drives growth in RTDs

July

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SLR Awards
Full event roundup from the night when Racetrack roared

Checkout Scotland
Peter Andre joins Callum Beattie on lineup

Retail crime
Thirty arrests in Edinburgh

Wholesalers
Bestway celebrates 50th anniversary

August

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Remote working
Managing a Glasgow c-store from 4,000 miles away in India

Symbol groups
Go Local Extra opens first store in Scotland

Investment
Spend big and save thousands

Counterfeit goods
Fake Labubu dolls flood Scotland

September

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Community
Coca-Cola campaign reminds shoppers that retailers are people too

Store Profile
Premier Dunbar in the spotlight

Vaping
85% of vapers switch to rechargeables

Retail crime
Police crackdown hits Glasgow

October

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Checkout Scotland
GroceryAid’s annual fundraiser rocks Glasgow

Above & Beyond
It’s time to nominate your store’s unsung heroes

DRS
TOMRA’s Truls Haug discusses DRS 2.0

Store profile
A look round Balfron Filling Station

November

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Social Media
Turning posts into profits

Deposit Return Scheme
Learnings from the Irish experience

Store Profile
SLR Award-winning Spar Erskine

Community
Retailers rally round SGF’s defibrillator campaign

December

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Staff Safety
How retailers deal with in-store abuse

SLR Awards
The search for Scotland’s local retailing stars gets underway!

Predictions
What’s in store for 2026?

Store profile
David’s Kitchen Glenrothes