Spar Market Harborough, Leicestershire
Raj Aggarwal opened a new ‘artisan’ Spar store and Insomnia coffee shop in the Leicestershire town of Market Harborough last summer.
View ArticleSt Mary's Supermarket, Southampton
Meten Lakhani completed a £170,000 refit in August last year, which saw the store expanded from 1,200sq ft to 2,895sq ft.
View ArticleMJ's Go Local Extra Sheffield
During the spring of 2015, husband and wife team Jai and Mandeep Singh bought a neighbouring unit and doubled the size of their Sheffield store to 1,450sq ft.
View ArticleSimply Fresh, Bethnal Green
Opened three years ago, this 1,600sq ft store in East London’s Bethnal Green was the first Simply Fresh outlet in the capital.
View ArticleMcLeish Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
CRA winner McLeish, Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, is at the top of its game. Owner Scott Graham has centred the 1,500sq ft store around an all-encompassing food-to-go offer, which dovetails with a...
View ArticleCostcutter Farnworth, Bolton
In 2014 Baz Jethwa financed a £400,000 refit of his Costcutter store in Farnworth, which ultimately won him the Best Independent Store award at CRA 2016.
View ArticleMcBride's Spar, Omagh
McBride’s Spar of Gortin Road, Omagh, Northern Ireland, picked up no fewer than three category awards at last month’s Convenience Retail Awards, as well as being a finalist in the Best Large Store...
View ArticleBudgens of Aylsham, Norfolk
Budgens of Aylsham was running on empty when local Norfolk company CT Baker Group acquired it from Musgrave in 2013. Since then managing director Michael Baker and manager Shane Woolston have...
View ArticleWarner's Budgens, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
Just four weeks after opening, basket spend at Guy Warner’s new Budgens (his sixth in the Cotswolds) has already hit an average of £13.
View ArticleMax's Londis, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
With 25 years of successful trading under its belt, Jatinder Sahota’s family-owned Londis on the Isle of Sheppey looked to the future with a major revamp at the start of 2015.
View ArticleNisa Pinkie, Musselburgh, Scotland
Sitting pretty in the heart of a burgeoning residential estate in the village of Musselburgh, Scotland is Nisa Pinkie….
View ArticleLondis Yealmpton, Devon
Last summer Jim and Leanne Dixon opened their new 1,200sq ft Londis forecourt store in Yealmpton, Devon, following a massive redevelopment project, which involved seemingly half the village.
View ArticleOne Stop Hednesford, Staffordshire
National c-store chain One Stop’s company-owned store in Hednesford, Staffordshire, is one of two branches acting as a test bed for a number of new concepts that could conceivably be rolled out to the...
View ArticleSupplier in your store: Spar Hackenthorpe
Heineken helps Spar retailer Raj Aggarwal to make new product Amstel the centre of attention.
View ArticleFamily Shopper, Ashton-under-Lyne
This year Mos Patel undertook an ambitious refit of his 1,200sq ft Premier store in Ashton-under- Lyne, nearly doubling its size to 2,000sq ft and switching to the Family Shopper fascia.
View ArticleNisa Fletton, Peterborough
Nisa Fletton started life as a 1,100sq ft c-store with neighbouring post office, before its most recent incarnation saw it transformed into a 3,000sq ft store with deli and post office.
View ArticleBest-one Kilburn, London
Ahmed ‘Naz’ Nazir is the latest retailer to adopt Best-one’s new premium symbol format with a stronger emphasis on fresh and food to go.
View ArticleCRA 2017: Best New Store finalists
This year saw a record number of entrants in the Best New Store category for the Convenience Retail Awards.
View ArticleSpar Eat 17 Whitstable, Kent
Last July Eat 17 opened its third store - the first outside of its East London heartland – in the affluent coastal town of Whitstable.
View ArticleCostcutter, North Prospect, Plymouth
In 2015 Nimal Navaratnarajah invested nearly £130,000 in transforming an empty unit into a modern Costcutter just outside Plymouth city centre.
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