ICYMI: Our annual update of the impact of the rise in National Living Wage on convenience store retailers has been published, working with @ScotGrocersFed This year the changes to Employers NI have major additional impact @PeteCheema @StirUni 1/2 wp.me/p1tU1v-2Jk

V. positive meeting with Baron @matthew_elliott, Pres. of the Jobs Foundation, in the House of Lords. Retention & recruitment, increasing NI & employment costs are critical issues for retailers. 🏪🧑‍🤝‍🧑📈 Great to see @TheJobsFndn championing business as a force for good.

SGF is delighted to publish our Go Local report - promoting locally sourced produce in store. Significant boost for retailers and communities with 127 stores, 44% growth in sales of goods, and local multiplier worth £169k per store. 🏪🥗🍓🥩 Read more 👉 sgfscot.co.uk/latest-news/re…

My recent post on our @StirUni @Maria_Ryba_ report on the impacts of the @ScotGrocersFed @scotgov @scotfooddrink Go Local project on retailers, communities and supply chains is now up on stirlingretail.com Report can be downloaded from there too wp.me/p1tU1v-2Gy

And so despite the climate emergency, massive city centre issues, a claimed policy of active travel etc, Stirling Council have agreed a large out of town superstore. Stirling Asda plans finally agreed as 350 jobs earmarked for supermarket site msn.com/en-gb/money/other/st…

Genialne!

Looking forward to this. Some great speakers and content. Thanks to @ScotGrocersFed and @PeteCheema for extending invite to @StirUni @stirIRS students. Great opportunity to learn and network. @StirManSchool

Watch this important clip (thank you, Liam Neeson) about the Battle of Warsaw and the Polish victory over communism. #OTD in 1920, Polish soldiers saved Europe from the Bolshevik invasion. Polish subtitles. @Fundacja_PFN @KosciuszkoFound @ipngovpl_eng

The Polish scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie (she always used both names) was the 1st woman to win the @NobelPrize, 1st person to win it twice and THE ONLY person to receive it in two different sciences. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Skłodowska has had the most significant impact on world history, according to a BBC poll of women who changed the world. She died #OTD in 1934. Read more: britishpoles.uk/maria-sklodo…

The Cost of Employment in Local Convenience Stores stirlingretail.com/2023/04/1…

Przed obejrzeniem materiału z załączonego tweeta, najpierw koniecznie trzeba zobaczyć ten⤵️

ICYMI: My thoughtson some aspects of the recent @ScotGrocersFed Annual conference stirlingretail.com/2022/10/1… @PeteCheema @scotfooddrink @StirManSchool @stirIRS @Maria_Ryba_

ICYMI: Our (@Maria_Ryba_ and @sparks_stirling ) latest paper is available for free download, on Twenty-One years of shopping as seen in a shopping diary series, in a volume dedicated to Historical Research in Marketing, stirlingretail.com/2022/04/2… @StirCCAS @StirManSchool @stirIRS

Many thanks to all our speakers at our final TCAP2 session this morning. Great to hear examples of how digital innovation is driving forward positive change for Scotland's Towns 👏

We are delighted to welcome Cele Otnes at the University of Stirling on the 11th May. Check out "Symposium on The Future of Consumer Research" eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium… @Eventbrite

Tonite's Convenience Store CPG will give us key insights into the future of retail. Excellent panel of speakers: Prof Leigh Sparks, David Lonsdale of SRC and Craig Brown of JW Filshill. Chaired as ever by @GMacdonaldSNP #cstorecpg

Gwałty na 100 000 mieszkańców x.com/visegrad24/status/1465…

#BattleOfBritain ended #OTD 81 years ago. The largest and most effective group of foreign aircrew were from Poland - 145! Never was so much owed by so many to so few! #303Squadron became the most successful Fighter Command unit which shot down 126 German planes in only 42 days.

Dziewczynka patrząca na ruiny Warszawy🇵🇱️ 3 kwietnia 1946 roku. Fot : Reginald Kenny

Autumnal reflections of the Wallace Monument in the River Forth. @TheWallaceMon @VisitScotland @BeingScots @StormHour @stirlingcastle @StirlingAWS @StirUni @BBCScotWeather @BBCpictures @STVNews @StirlingCouncil #autumn #autumnalcolours