Store Profiles – Page 7
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Features and analysisSpar Tidworth, Wiltshire
Located in the village of Tidworth on the Hampshire-Wiltshire border, the Connolly family’s Spar store has benefited from a £1.2m redevelopment.
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Features and analysisNisa Upper Beeding, West Sussex
Last year Jai Patel invested £100,000 in refurbishing his Upper Beeding site in West Sussex to the Nisa ‘store of the future’ model.
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Features and analysisPremier Whitstone Village Stores, Cornwall
C-Store columnist Dan Cocks has opened his refitted and revamped Premier store in Whitstone, Cornwall.
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Features and analysisCo-op Frobisher House, Southampton
When the HSBC office above the store relocated - taking with it 1,000 workers - it could have been disastrous for Welcome Co-op Frobisher House owner Richard Inglis. But a renewed effort has seen the initial 12% sales dip at this Southampton store turned into an 8% year on year sales rise.
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Features and analysisMcBride's Spar, Sligo Road, Enniskillen
McBride’s Spar in Sligo Road, Enniskillen, has been reborn in a food hall format as the perfect showcase for great-quality fresh and chilled food, resulting in it being named Chilled Food Retailer of the Year at the recent Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisWarners Budgens, Moreton-in-Marsh
The 10,000sq ft Budgens store in Moreton-in Marsh in the Cotswolds has been trading for 10 years, but owner Guy Warner and his staff have in no way been resting on their laurels over that time.
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Features and analysisEat 17 Hackney, London
Eat 17 Hackney won the Best Large Store award at CRA 2017 - as well as the Innovation Award and Best Communication to Shoppers accolade.
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Features and analysisMullan's Spar, Armagh, Northern Ireland
Inside Stephen and Donna Mullan’s CRA award-winning store in Armagh, Northern Ireland
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Features and analysisCostcutter, North Prospect, Plymouth
In 2015 Nimal Navaratnarajah invested nearly £130,000 in transforming an empty unit into a modern Costcutter just outside Plymouth city centre.
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Features and analysisCRA 2017: Best New Store finalists
This year saw a record number of entrants in the Best New Store category for the Convenience Retail Awards.
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NewsBest-one Kilburn, London
Ahmed ‘Naz’ Nazir is the latest retailer to adopt Best-one’s new premium symbol format with a stronger emphasis on fresh and food to go.
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Features and analysisNisa Fletton, Peterborough
Nisa Fletton started life as a 1,100sq ft c-store with neighbouring post office, before its most recent incarnation saw it transformed into a 3,000sq ft store with deli and post office.
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NewsFamily Shopper, Ashton-under-Lyne
This year Mos Patel undertook an ambitious refit of his 1,200sq ft Premier store in Ashton-under- Lyne, nearly doubling its size to 2,000sq ft and switching to the Family Shopper fascia.
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Features and analysisSupplier in your store: Spar Hackenthorpe
Heineken helps Spar retailer Raj Aggarwal to make new product Amstel the centre of attention.
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Features and analysisOne Stop Hednesford, Staffordshire
National c-store chain One Stop’s company-owned store in Hednesford, Staffordshire, is one of two branches acting as a test bed for a number of new concepts that could conceivably be rolled out to the entire estate.
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Features and analysisLondis Yealmpton, Devon
Last summer Jim and Leanne Dixon opened their new 1,200sq ft Londis forecourt store in Yealmpton, Devon, following a massive redevelopment project, which involved seemingly half the village.
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Features and analysisNisa Pinkie, Musselburgh, Scotland
Sitting pretty in the heart of a burgeoning residential estate in the village of Musselburgh, Scotland is Nisa Pinkie.
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Features and analysisMax's Londis, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
With 25 years of successful trading under its belt, Jatinder Sahota’s family-owned Londis on the Isle of Sheppey looked to the future with a major revamp at the start of 2015.
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Features and analysisWarner's Budgens, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Just four weeks after opening, basket spend at Guy Warner’s new Budgens (his sixth in the Cotswolds) has already hit an average of £13.
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Features and analysisBudgens of Aylsham, Norfolk
Budgens of Aylsham was running on empty when local Norfolk company CT Baker Group acquired it from Musgrave in 2013. Since then managing director Michael Baker and manager Shane Woolston have transformed it into a thriving community hub.