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Battle in store for Scotland’s affluent shoppers

With the arrival of Waitrose in Glasgow next month, added to the upmarket grocery chain’s first Scottish new-build in Newton Mearns due to open in just over a year, it appears Scotland is becoming the new battleground for the middle-class pound.

Newton Mearns, just outside Glasgow and one of the country’s wealthiest suburbs, was described yesterday by Waitrose as “the perfect fit for the Waitrose brand”.