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End for Beales as Asda falls and bargain hunters lift Scots stores

Beales Perth
Beales’ Perth store was among the first to close The remaining 11 Beales department stores look certain to close after failing attract offers.  It had been hoped to find a buyerRead More

Department store shuts

Beales store in Perth among 12 scheduled to close

Beales Perth
Perth’s Beales store will be among those closing Beales department store in Perth is to close after the joint administrators failed to find a buyer for most of the group’sRead More

Building on quitters

VPZ plans £12 million investment in high street stores

VPZ: expanding on the high street E-cigarette retailer VPZ will invest £12million over the next two years as it doubles its store count to 300. The Scots chain says itRead More

Retail shift

New Look move paves way for Princes St transition

New Look
More rooms at the inn Edinburgh Princes Street’s transition from retail to hospitality looks likely to move ahead with plans to convert the New Look store into a restaurant andRead More

Amendment opposed

MSPs reject plan to switch business rates to councils

Multrees Walk, shop, retail, Edinburgh
Shop workers feared impact of change (pic: Terry Murden) MSPs today voted against plans to switch business rates to Scotland’s town halls after business groups, trade unions and the mainRead More

Retailers move in

New store signings for Edinburgh St James

Edinburgh St James
How it will look: hoardings give an impression of the new entrance (pic: Terry Murden) Edinburgh St James has announced a number of retail signings ahead of its October launch,Read More

£100m project approved

Glasgow Harbour ‘will complement’ city retail mix

Glasgow Harbour Outlet
Glasgow Harbour: will ‘complement’ the retail and leisure mix A proposal to redevelop a derelict Glasgow site on the south bank of the Clyde has been approved by the cityRead More

Retail report

Princes Street blueprint will see a shift from shopping

Prince St retail shopping
Edinburgh’s retail focus is expected to shift from Princes St to St James (pic: Terry Murden) Princes Street café culture has moved a step closer following new planning guidance allowingRead More

Study to halt decline

Paisley sets out vision for future of Scotland’s high streets

Paisley shopping centre
Paisley shopping centre may become a residential quarter A pioneering study reimagining how Paisley town centre could look in a decade aims to become a blueprint for how High StreetRead More

1,050 jobs at risk

Beales facing uncertain future as administrators move in

Beales Perth
Beales in Perth is the latest store in the city to face uncertainty Another of Britain’s department store chain is expected to disappear from the high street after Beales collapsedRead More