Your Stores – Page 13
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best Communication to Shoppers: Spar Loughbrickland, County Down
Dale and Aaron Beckett opened their Spar store on the site of an old village church in June 2017.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Food to go (small store) and Energy Efficiency awards: Scotmid Bankton
Investment in the Scotmid Co-operative Bankton store in Prestonpans, to the east of Edinburgh, has paid off with two awards in this year’s CRA.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best Large Store: Eurospar Donegall Road, Belfast
Eurospar Donegall Road scooped not only the Best Large Store Award at the CRAs, but was also Food to go Retailer of the Year (large store).
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Features and analysisFood to go: Keystore More, Lanark
Wilson Rea is reaping the rewards of a newly-installed hot food-to-go and milkshake station. The savvy retailer tells C-Store about his innovative offering, which has more than doubled his hot food turnover, and lets us in on the smart cost savings he has made along the way.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best Multiple Store: Simply Fresh, Surrey University
Now in its third year of trading, Simply Fresh at Surrey University in Guildford wowed the CRA judges with its innovative customer-centric ethos and fresh thinking.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best Independent Store: Spar Princess Street, Manchester
The continuing growth in sales at Paul Stone’s Spar store in Princess Street, Manchester, was rewarded with the accolade of Best Independent Store at this year’s Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Convenience Retailer of the Year: MJ's Premier, Royton
New investment in Justin Whittaker’s MJ’s Premier store in Royton, near Oldham in Greater Manchester, has begun to pay off almost immediately by being named as 2019’s Convenience Retailer of the Year.
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Features and analysisBudgens Gipsy Hill, London
Owned by Kiri Kiritharan, the new Budgens store in Gipsy Hill, South London, is the symbol group’s take on a small convenience store.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best New Store finalist: Spar Warton, Lancashire
Partnership is the name of the game at James Hall’s (G&E Murgatroyd) newly-built Spar shop in Warton, Lancashire, situated opposite the BAE Systems facility at the historic Warton Aerodrome.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best New Store finalist: Premier Victoria Dock, Hull
Having owned a Premier store on nearby Endike Lane for many years, Joe Punian had plenty of experience in convenience and was ready to take on a new retailing challenge.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best New Store finalist: Nisa Kimberlow Rise, York
The purpose-built Nisa Kimberlow Rise opened in February 2018 under the watchful eyes of multi-site store manager Adam Viney and retail operations manager Jackie North.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best New Store finalist: Spar Eat 17 Hammersmith
The latest venture from the Eat 17 team, open since August in Hammersmith, West London, is the clearest demonstration yet of the shop brand’s core values and points of difference.
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Features and analysis
Spar Newbold Road, Chesterfield
Richard Barron, owner of six Spar stores around Chesterfield, and Blakemore Guild member, used his Newbold Road store as a testbed for a new Blakemore model aimed at driving up margins.
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Features and analysis
Raven's Budgens, Abridge, Essex
Raven’s Budgens in Abridge, Essex, switched to the Booker-owned symbol group last year, but the former Mace store is also the longest-running Shell forecourt site in the country.
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Features and analysisNisa Southend Victoria, Essex
Less than a mile from the seaside, Nisa Southend Victoria has the benefit of both a railway station entrance and a street entrance, and owner Mitul Patel takes full advantage with an offer that appeals to visitors, commuters and locals.
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Features and analysisSpar Market, Pwllheli, Wales
Just over a year ago Conrad Davies embarked on a major revamp of his 3,000sq ft store in Pwllheli in Wales, relaunching it as the first Spar Market store.
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Features and analysisSimply Fresh Manchester
Jas Bhattle’s latest store is part of a new development in Piccadilly Place, Manchester.
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Features and analysisPremier Victoria Dock, Hull
Joe and Kuldeep Kaur Punian opened their latest store in Hull’s Victoria Dock in February, under Premier’s latest store format.
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Features and analysisCo-op Italia, Bicocca, Milan
Interactive technology and cool design are laying a template for the future of retail in Milan’s affluent suburb of Bicocca
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Features and analysisLondis Woodhouse Street, Leeds
Londis Woodhouse Street in Leeds re-opened in March after converting to the symbol group’s latest ‘store of the future’ format.

















