Charming shop doorways
FROM North Berwick to Glasgow, Innerleithen to Edinburgh, there is often something magical about tiled shop doorways. This selection might mostly owe their existence to…
Category: Retail
Still, 15.7 per cent of Scotland’s shops lying vacant
SHOP vacancy rates in Scotland remain stubbornly high, at almost one in six – according to the latest figures released by a trade association for…
Survey reveals high rate of pub closures
ONE in 20 pubs in Scotland are estimated to have not re-opened since the Covid-19 pandemic in March two years ago forced them to shut…
Window signage
“GREEN. Meadows, on Edinburgh’s Buccleuch Street, describes itself as ‘a modern take on a tropical plant shop with social and environmental sustainability at its centre’.…
Glasgow’s retail prospects boosted by gift card scheme
A GIFT card scheme, designed to invigorate the retail prospects for Glasgow, has become the UK’s largest of its kind – according to the organisation…
A bookshop for a town
A TOWN isn’t a town without a bookstore. So the author, Neil Gaiman, is attributed as having said. Scotland boasts dozens, if not hundreds, of…
Moratorium call on out-of-town retail malls
A MORATORIUM on out-of-town shopping centres is being called for by an organisation representing ‘small businesses’. Says the Federation of Small Businesses, in a manifesto…
Scots shop vacancy figs show slight improvement
THE number of empty shops on Scotland’s high streets has remained broadly the same between the months of June-September last year and October-December, but other…
Two Scots cities said to have each lost almost a year’s worth of sales, due to pandemic
SCOTS cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, are estimated to have each suffered among the most dramatic falls, across the UK, in retail sales – as a…
Funding released to help refurbish shop fronts
SHOP owners in the Glasgow districts of the High Street and Saltmarket are being invited to apply for funding, to help refurbish the fronts of…