Your Stores – Page 14
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Features and analysisBattersea General Store, London
Raj Bathia opened the 6,500sq ft Battersea General Store in July 2017. Located within the £9bn regenerated Battersea Power Station, Raj has described it as “your global local store”.
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Features and analysisCRA 2018: Welcome Co-op, Liberty Quays, Southampton
Welcome Co-op franchisee Richard Inglis won the Best Use of Technology Award at CRA 2018. The award applied to his Liberty Quays store in Southampton, but he uses the same approach across his three stores in the city.
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Features and analysisCRA 2018: Jet Spar, Selby
Nick Baker, owner of NJB Services, which operates five Spar forecourts in the North, has carried out a daring £1.3m knock-down and rebuild to turn his 600sq ft basic c-store into a 2,000sq ft futuristic glass-fronted two-storey store.
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Features and analysisCRA 2018: Warner's Budgens, Moreton-in-Marsh
The 10,000sq ft Cotswolds-based store earned the title Off Licence Retailer of the Year at the 2018 Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisCRA 2018: McBride's Spar, Mullaghmore, Omagh
McBride’s Spar Mullaghmore in the town of Omagh, Northern Ireland, has benefited from a £400,000 refit to improve the presentation of product and the shopper experience.
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Features and analysisCRA 2018: Classic Service Station, Omagh
Classic Service Station in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, was doubly honoured at the Convenience Retail Awards 2018 with awards for Food to Go Retailer of the Year (large store) and Best Communication to Shoppers.
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Features and analysisCRA 2018: Mullan's Spar, Armagh
Stephen and Donna Mullan, of Mullan’s Spar in Armagh, picked up two more awards to add to their growing collection at the Convenience Retail Awards 2018.
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Features and analysisCRA Best Multiple Store: Spar Roe Lane, Southport
This year’s Best Multiple or Franchise Store is the 2,000sq ft forecourt Spar Roe Lane, owned by James Hall company division G&E Murgatroyd.
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Features and analysisCRA 2018 winner: Budgens of Islington
Paul Gardner’s Budgens in Islington, North London, won the top prize at the 2018 Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisHunt's Spar Freshfield, Formby
Hunt’s Spar Freshfield in Formby, Merseyside, has taken on the café culture in a big way. The store has been owned by Lawrence Hunt & Co for five years, but the company decided to add an Insomnia café with seating at the end of 2017.
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Features and analysisCRA Best New Store finalist: Little Fresh, Pembrokeshire College
The Best New Store award at CRA 2018 has attracted an outstandingly high standard of entries once again this year, showing the willingness of convenience retailers across the country to make big investments in order to satisfy and raise customer expectations. Here we profile the third of three stores on this year’s shortlist.
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Features and analysisCRA Best New Store finalist: Spar Madigans Court, Belfast
The Best New Store award at CRA 2018 has attracted an outstandingly high standard of entries once again this year, showing the willingness of convenience retailers across the country to make big investments in order to satisfy and raise customer expectations. Here we profile the second of three stores on this year’s shortlist.
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Features and analysisCRA Best New Store finalist: Spar Walkden
The Best New Store award at CRA 2018 has attracted an outstandingly high standard of entries once again this year, showing the willingness of convenience retailers across the country to make big investments in order to satisfy and raise customer expectations. Here we profile the first of three stores on this year’s shortlist.
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Features and analysisCRA: Retailer's Retailer of the Year
Paul Stone, who operates eight Spar stores in the Manchester area, was named as Retailer’s Retailer of the Year at the 2017 Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisBiddles Spar, Redditch, Worcs
Simon Biddle recently switched his 1,000sq ft Redditch Biddles store from Simply Fresh to Spar, in a joint venture with Spar distributor AF Blakemore.
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Features and analysisEat 17 Bishop's Stortford
Burgeoning chain Eat 17 opened its fourth and largest store (5,000sq ft, including 3,000sq ft retail space) last month, in the Hertfordshire town of Bishop’s Stortford.
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Features and analysisSupplier in your store: Premier Thind, Bedford
C-Store went to see Pammi Thind, a new recruit to Heineken’s Star Retailer programme, at his Premier store in Bedford.
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Features and analysisPremier Broadway Convenience, Edinburgh
With a new food-to-go counter, a revamped spirits section with the latest in LED lighting, and an extended fresh produce and promotional range that covers both value and premium lines, the 1,600sq ft Premier Broadway Convenience in Edinburgh has it all covered.
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Features and analysisGreens of Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire
Greens of Tillicoultry is building a reputation as a store to suit the shopping needs of the local community despite being new to the town.
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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.