Opinions
2 minutes of your time: Gavin Blair
With milk and flavoured milks excluded from the recent sugar tax, there’s an opportunity for retailers to capitalise...
The future is smarter, not harder
The challenges that face the local retailing sector are well documented with costs rising, margins falling and competition...
Food-to-go grant is a no-brainer
The recent announcement that the Scottish Government’s new £250,000 food-to-go grant programme is now live should be welcome...
Friends and colleagues: support the Protection of Workers consultation
Let’s face it, if you work in a shop in Scotland you already know that abuse, threats and...
2 minutes of your time: Dan Brown
He may be a young man, but Dan Brown already has an enviable CV in local retailing in...
2 minutes of your time: Craig Brown
Glasgow-based wholesaler JW Filshill has finally officially launched its new premium KeyStore More fascia format in Scotland. We...
The great tobacco RSP debate
It’s one of those discussions that usually only happens in private, but the gnarly question of whether to...
Can retailers and brands turn big data into smart data?
Data is set to play an increasingly important role in convenience retailing but having access to more and...
Reality bites with the real cost of the living wage
The national living wage is a complex subject, fraught with moral as well as commercial implications. There can’t...
It’s about time to give Aldi laldy…
There are few scenarios more nightmarish for a local retailer than an Aldi moving in next door, and...