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Scottish shop workers bear the brunt as retail crime surges

A quarter of a million Scots are employed in retail, almost one in ten people in work. It’s likely that includes a member of your family, a friend...

David Lonsdale

Buoyant household disposable incomes and confident consumers are critical to the health of the retail industry and all who rely on it, whether...

In the five years writing this column it’s never been difficult to find fresh issues or perspectives affecting Scotland’s shopkeepers. We’ve...

Retailers will be hoping Finance Secretary Shona Robison is more Santa Claus than Ebenezer Scrooge when she reveals her Scottish Budget this week....

It’s exactly three years since the United Nations came to Glasgow to hold its COP26 conference on climate change. It was exhilarating to see so...

IT’S exactly a month since Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister. In the days since he has sought to convey a rather dull impression of solidity...