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Spar 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.

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Greens 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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Premier 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...

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Supplier 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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Eat 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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Biddles 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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CRA: 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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CRA 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...

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CRA 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...

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CRA 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...

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Hunt'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...

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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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...

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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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...

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CRA 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...

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Battersea 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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Londis 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.

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Co-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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Premier 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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Simply Fresh Manchester

Jas Bhattle’s latest store is part of a new development in Piccadilly Place, Manchester.

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Spar 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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Nisa 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...

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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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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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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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Budgens 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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CRA 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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Costcutter 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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Stretford 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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Hunt’s Spar, Leyland, Lancashire

A £300k+ refit has completely refreshed the Hunt’s Spar store in Broadfield Drive, Leyland, Lancashire, as well as adding food to go and a fresh butchery counter to make it a destination store for...

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Racetrack Pitstop (Premier) Glasgow

Last year the Sud family embarked on a radical revamp of their Racetrack Pitstop (Premier-branded) forecourt store in Glasgow.

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Retail in Japan

With a large and largely urban population, Japan has one of the highest concentrations of convenience stores in the world, and the stores play an important role in feeding busy but demanding consumers...

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David’s Kitchen, Kirkcaldy, Fife

The latest David’s Kitchen site opened last month in Kirkcaldy following a million pound investment. Food service remains at the heart of the brand, which already has sites in Falkirk and Glenrothes,...

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Simply Fresh, Webheath, Worcestershire

Parminder Gosal has graduated from working for Nasta Khera – who owns Simply Fresh in Alcester – to having a store of his own.

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Costcutter Chislehurst, South East London

Anil Patel opted to switch his South East London-store from Spar fascia to Costcutter in January 2019 due to the latter’s tie-up with the Co-op Group.

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Nisa Stilton, Cambridgeshire

Late last year the village store in Stilton, Cambridgeshire, re-opened following a major refit which saw the 1,500sq ft site almost double in size.

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