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Greens launches 24-hour new concept store in Edinburgh

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Greens Retail, the independent Scottish convenience group, is to open the first of a new type of store in Edinburgh next week. Greens on the Go is the concept which the group says marks “a shift from traditional convenience” to almost entirely “food for now”…

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