RETAILER PROFILE
SCOTT GRAHAM MCLEISH’S, INVERURIE
HOW’S YOUR WEEK BEEN...
SCOTT GRAHAM? AS ONE OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE RETAILERS IN THE BUSINESS, ABERDEENSHIRE RETAILER SCOTT GRAHAM DOESN’T LIKE LITTLE THINGS LIKE A GLOBAL PANDEMIC GET IN THE WAY OF A LONG OVERDUE MAJOR REFIT.
“On Sunday, after the refit, we were up 100% on a pre-Covid Sunday.”
HOW’S YOUR WEEK BEEN SCOTT? [Laughs out loud]. Eh, a wee bit hectic. We finished a full-scale refit at the tail end of last week and re-opened in time for the weekend, so it’s been mental.
YOU PICKED A FINE TIME FOR A REFIT THEN… Timing doesn’t appear to be my strong suit! When I first got this store about 11 years ago it was 2009 and the global banking system had just collapsed. And now
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I decided to do a major refit during the worst pandemic in living memory. Apparently I like a challenge.
HAD YOU BEEN PLANNING THE REFIT SINCE BEFORE CORONAVIRUS? Well, it’s complicated because the 10-year lease I had on the shop ran out last year and I took a while to decide whether I wanted to renew it. Because of that, we had stopped properly investing in the store for the last 18 months or so, but we finally got a deal sorted to renew
