The Week In Retail Issue 1

EDITOR’S COMMENT

WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures – which is why we at Scottish Local Retailer are launching this new weekly digital news magazine. The pace of change at the moment is unlike anything we’ve experienced in nearly 20 years of publishing SLR and in order to get you the freshest, most up to date news, views, opinions and information in a format that’s familiar to you, we’ve decided to create The Week In Retail, our new digital magazine.

To be clear, however, our goal in producing this new online magazine is not simply to replicate the SLR print edition on a weekly basis. For one thing we will be covering content that you might not ordinarily see in SLR. You will find more content that isn’t specifically from Scotland and we’ll be dedicating a lot more space to content that isn’t necessarily from the world of convenience retailing.

Our key aim with The Week In Retail is simply to bring you content that will help you, inform you and inspire you in equal measure, something we feel is particularly important in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.

Our industry has certainly never faced a challenge like this in my lifetime and this new magazine is part of our response to helping the local retailing sector draw inspiration from wherever it may be found.

We’ve also tried hard to keep the content brief, easy to digest and fast-paced. Retailers have little enough time as it is, so we’re attempting to bring you great content quickly and we’re drawing on all of our 20+ years’ experience in the trade, including five years as retailers ourselves, to sift out the stories, news, information and advice that we believe will be most useful to you in these weird and sometimes wonderful times.

The world may be full of doom and gloom but there is also a lot going on out there to restore your faith in humanity after all.

Coronavirus will change our industry and our wider society for ever – but there are plenty of indications that much of that change will be for the better.

I hope you enjoy The Week In Retail and I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Stay safe.

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