Edinburgh
This coverage focuses on retail activity in Edinburgh, including store openings and closures, investment initiatives, local consumer trends, and regional trading performance. Reporting highlights how retailers tailor strategy, site selection, and marketing to the city’s unique economic, cultural, and tourist landscape — offering insight for executives, managers, and professionals overseeing retail operations in Scotland’s capital.
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Jun- 2022 -28 JuneHigh Street
Retail space provider Sook continues UK expansion
Flexible retail pop-up space provider Sook has announced new partnerships with Hammerson and Rivington Hark, which will see the retail operator open three new spaces this summer in new UK locations. The firm said its rapid expansion is a result of a “high customer demand for flexible retail space as…
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21 JuneHigh Street
Rail strikes represent ‘another blow’ for Scottish wholesalers
National rail strikes this week are set to represent ‘another blow’ for Scotland’s retailers and wholesalers. Nearly 90% of ScotRail services will be cancelled on Tuesday 21, Thursday 23 and Saturday 25 June, with city centre venues set to bear the brunt of the knock-on impact of the strikes. Nathan…
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May- 2022 -16 MayHigh Street
Jollyes unveils manager for new Stirling store amid recruitment drive
Jollyes has named the manager for its latest store in Stirling as recruitment for new colleagues gets underway. The new store at Unit 3 Burghmuir Retail Park in Stirling will open in mid-June and employ 12 colleagues. Jollyes has recruited Angela Rennie, who has worked for leading retailers including Home…
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12 MayHigh Street
Bloom & Wild unveils first ever retail pop-ups
Bloom and Wild has announced it will host a series of pop-up shops for the first time, available from 26 May to 10 July. The pop-ups will be located across London, Bristol and Edinburgh, and they will allow customers to purchase both botanical items and homeware. Following the concept of…
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11 MayHealth & Beauty
Superdrug expands same day delivery service to Scotland
Superdrug has expanded its same-day, ‘Store to Door’, courier service to customers in Scotland, now available to those within approximately a five mile radius of nine Scottish Superdrug stores within the Glasgow and Edinburgh regions. The service allows shoppers to order products directly from their local store. Powered by delivery…
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Apr- 2022 -26 AprilNews
Lidl asks public to help locate sites for new stores
Lidl has announced that it is calling on the British public for support in identifying sites for new stores. The retailer said it is investing £1.3bn in its expansion across 2021 and 2022. It has revealed that it is offering a finder’s fee to members of the public who successfully…
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Mar- 2022 -11 MarchHigh Street
Sook opens second retail site on South Molton Street
Sook, a pay-by-the-hour adaptable space provider, has opened a second site on South Molton Street, and extended its partnership with central London landlord Grosvenor by three years. Sook initially partnered with Grosvenor in 2020, opening 42 South Molton Street to provide an “affordable, flexible and digitally-connected space for any brand…
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Feb- 2022 -2 FebruaryOnline & Digital
Amazon to create 1,500 UK apprenticeships in 2022
Amazon is set to create 1,500 new apprenticeship roles across the UK in 2022. The online giant will create 40 apprenticeship schemes that include areas such as publishing, retailing, marketing, environmental, social and corporate governance, engineering and health and safety. The schemes will also include more than 200 apprenticeships which…
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Nov- 2021 -5 NovemberHigh Street
Dobbies opens third little dobbies in London
Dobbies Garden Centres has announced the opening of its third little dobbies store in London, located in Richmond, as it continues the roll-out of the new concept across the country. Located at 54 George Street, this is the fifth site in the UK, following Westbourne Grove, Chiswick and Clifton which…
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3 NovemberSupermarkets
Aldi to open 15 new stores before end of year
Aldi is set to open 15 new stores across the UK before the end of the year. The supermarket group, which currently has more than 930 UK stores, will open in new locations including Edinburgh (25 November), Orpington (2 December) and Poole (16 December). The new openings form part of…
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