NEWS DIGEST
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SGF LAUNCHES SUPPORT FUND Scottish Grocers’ Federation has unveiled a new fund to provide direct financial assistance to retailers and their families during the Covid-19 crisis. For more information on
WHOLESALERS
CJ LANG LAUNCHES CLICK AND COLLECT SERVICE
the fund please download the
THE WHOLESALER EXTENDS ITS SERVICE BEYOND INDEPENDENT
application form on the SGF
SPAR STORES TO ANY RETAIL BUSINESS.
website.
PAYPOINT AND MFG RENEW PAYMENTS AND PARCELS PARTNERSHIP PayPoint and Motor Fuel
Group have renewed their partnership. This will see the deployment of an EPoS integrated PayPoint solution into 900 locations, and the
Spar Scotland wholesaler and retailer CJ Lang has launched a click and collect service aimed at providing trade customers with a full ambient and selected chilled range. Operating from its 180,000sq ft distribution centre in Dundee, the wholesaler will provide a click and collect service seven days a week, where trade customers place orders via its website before 1430 hours and collect them by 1800 hours the same day. Orders received after 1430 hours
will be available for collection the next day. The service has been in operation since 10 June and CJ Lang plans to add more products over the coming weeks.
continuation of Collect+ parcel services in almost 500 stores.
GROCERY INSTORE GROWS AT THE EXPENSE OF DELIVERY Following several weeks of strong performance for grocery delivery, grocery in-store grew share across all meal occasions, according to HIM’s latest Pulse update. Growth was particularly strong at dinner, up 4.6pp to 66% share.
CALL FOR MUP IN ENGLAND IN WAKE OF SCOTTISH FINDINGS A leading health campaigner has urged the Government to introduce minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol in England. The call – from Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, Chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK – came after a new study found that alcohol sales in Scotland remain at their lowest level since 1994. In 2019, 9.9 litres of pure alcohol were sold per adult in Scotland –
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equivalent to 19.1 units of alcohol per adult per week. Professor Gilmore said the introduction of minimum unit pricing in Wales earlier this year left England behind much of the UK in the race to tackle the alcohol harm crisis. He said: “It is time for Westminster to step up and prove it takes our nation’s health seriously by implementing MUP as a matter of urgency.”
