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…
Category: Retail
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…