Your Stores – Page 4
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Features and analysisStudent special: Premier at the Union, Dundee University
The Premier store at Dundee University, headed up by former army chef and retail services manager Moira Dean, has been taken to the next level after a major refit.
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Features and analysisStretford Foodhall, Manchester
Stretford Foodhall is the latest venture from Mital Morar, who is enjoying huge success with Ancoats General Store in Manchester city centre.
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Features and analysisThe Snooty Fox (Nisa), Shalford, Surrey
The Snooty Fox café and convenience business has come a long way from its humble sandwich shop beginning.
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Features and analysisCostcutter Cockshut Hill, Sheldon
Rekha Godhania opened her newly-built Costcutter store in Sheldon, Birmingham, in 2017 under the symbol group’s Shopper First programme.
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Features and analysisCrime special: Londis Woodmansterne, Surrey
Two armed robberies in the space of a fortnight have failed to dent the resolve of Sukhbinder Kaur and her son Raj Kahlon not to let crime rob them of their livelihood.
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Features and analysisCrime special: Co-op Dedham, Essex
When a ram raid left their store unsafe to work in, the team at Dedham Co-op set up shop in a barn, braving a fierce winter and a scorching summer to serve customers while the store was rebuilt and refitted.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best New Store: Spar Eat 17 Hammersmith
Spar Eat 17’s latest store, which opened in Hammersmith, West London, last August, was crowned Best New Store at the 2019 Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Best Chilled Food retailer: Spar Mullaghmore, Omagh
Located in Omagh, Northern Ireland, Spar Mullaghmore is one of 11 Spar stores operated by the McBride Retail Group.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019: Family Shopper, Blantyre, Scotland
Mo Razzaq’s determination to modernise his Family Shopper-branded store in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, yielded three richly deserved accolades at this year’s Convenience Retail Awards.
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Features and analysisCRA 2019 Excellence in Impulse award: Londis Lechlade, Glos
Ben Simons’ willingness to adapt to changing shopper needs is paying dividends and earnt his Londis Lechlade store the Excellence in Impulse Award.
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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.