@Maria_Ryba_

Research Fellow - University of Stirling (SMS); Assistant Professor - Społeczna Akademia Nauk (University of Social Sciences) and Clark University

Joined November 2017
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ICYMI: Our annual update of the impact of the rise in National Living Wage on convenience store retailers has been published, working with @ScotGrocersFed This year the changes to Employers NI have major additional impact @PeteCheema @StirUni 1/2 wp.me/p1tU1v-2Jk

Convenience Store Retailing : the real business cost of employment

The newspapers on the 1st April were full of the upcoming woes for families as so many costs and bills were due to go up in April. As a counterbalance to that the Chancellor, writing in the Guardia…

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V. positive meeting with Baron @matthew_elliott, Pres. of the Jobs Foundation, in the House of Lords. Retention & recruitment, increasing NI & employment costs are critical issues for retailers. 🏪🧑‍🤝‍🧑📈 Great to see @TheJobsFndn championing business as a force for good.
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SGF is delighted to publish our Go Local report - promoting locally sourced produce in store. Significant boost for retailers and communities with 127 stores, 44% growth in sales of goods, and local multiplier worth £169k per store. 🏪🥗🍓🥩 Read more 👉 sgfscot.co.uk/latest-news/re…

Report underlines tremendous success of SGF’s Go Local Programme | Scottish Grocers' Federation...

As it enters its fifth year, the project to promote locally sourced produce sees a significant boost for local retailers and communities across Scotland. With 127 stores from Shetland to Dumfries &...

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My recent post on our @StirUni @Maria_Ryba_ report on the impacts of the @ScotGrocersFed @scotgov @scotfooddrink Go Local project on retailers, communities and supply chains is now up on stirlingretail.com Report can be downloaded from there too wp.me/p1tU1v-2Gy

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Comments on retail and towns issues from Leigh Sparks, University of Stirling, with a focus on Scotland

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And so despite the climate emergency, massive city centre issues, a claimed policy of active travel etc, Stirling Council have agreed a large out of town superstore. Stirling Asda plans finally agreed as 350 jobs earmarked for supermarket site msn.com/en-gb/money/other/st…
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Genialne!
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@sadek18 Dec 2023
This is Poland 🔥
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Looking forward to this. Some great speakers and content. Thanks to @ScotGrocersFed and @PeteCheema for extending invite to @StirUni @stirIRS students. Great opportunity to learn and network. @StirManSchool
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Watch this important clip (thank you, Liam Neeson) about the Battle of Warsaw and the Polish victory over communism. #OTD in 1920, Polish soldiers saved Europe from the Bolshevik invasion. Polish subtitles. @Fundacja_PFN @KosciuszkoFound @ipngovpl_eng – at Brent, London

MIRACLE ON THE VISTULA. BATTLE OF WARSAW 1920.

On August 15th we mark the anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw, the free world’s first major victory over communism. The victory came on the very day Poles were celebrating the Feast of the Assumption

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Maria Ryba... retweeted
British Poles
@britishpoles4 Jul 2023
The Polish scientist Maria Skłodowska-Curie (she always used both names) was the 1st woman to win the @NobelPrize, 1st person to win it twice and THE ONLY person to receive it in two different sciences. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Skłodowska has had the most significant impact on world history, according to a BBC poll of women who changed the world. She died #OTD in 1934. Read more: britishpoles.uk/maria-sklodo…
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The Cost of Employment in Local Convenience Stores stirlingretail.com/2023/04/1…

The Cost of Employment in Local Convenience Stores

Almost a decade ago, we began working with the Scottish Grocers Federation on understanding the costs of doing business in the convenience sector. One aspect of this work has been the relationship …

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Przed obejrzeniem materiału z załączonego tweeta, najpierw koniecznie trzeba zobaczyć ten⤵️
Maciej Stańczyk@stanczykmaciej29 Mar 2023
Ten materiał powinien obejrzeć każdy, bez wyjątku!
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ICYMI: My thoughtson some aspects of the recent @ScotGrocersFed Annual conference stirlingretail.com/2022/10/1… @PeteCheema @scotfooddrink @StirManSchool @stirIRS @Maria_Ryba_

Scottish Grocers Federation Conference: Issues and Opportunities

Just over a year ago, I did my first F2F presentation in a long time, when I presented at the Scottish Grocers Federation annual conference in Glasgow. This was apparently one of the very first suc…

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ICYMI: Our (@Maria_Ryba_ and @sparks_stirling ) latest paper is available for free download, on Twenty-One years of shopping as seen in a shopping diary series, in a volume dedicated to Historical Research in Marketing, stirlingretail.com/2022/04/2… @StirCCAS @StirManSchool @stirIRS
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Many thanks to all our speakers at our final TCAP2 session this morning. Great to hear examples of how digital innovation is driving forward positive change for Scotland's Towns 👏
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We are delighted to welcome Cele Otnes at the University of Stirling on the 11th May. Check out "Symposium on The Future of Consumer Research" eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium… @Eventbrite

Symposium on The Future of Consumer Research

Join us and Honorary Professor Cele Otnes at the University of Stirling for an exciting discussion on The Future of Consumer Research

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Tonite's Convenience Store CPG will give us key insights into the future of retail. Excellent panel of speakers: Prof Leigh Sparks, David Lonsdale of SRC and Craig Brown of JW Filshill. Chaired as ever by @GMacdonaldSNP #cstorecpg
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Gwałty na 100 000 mieszkańców xitter.cf/visegrad24/status/1465…
Visegrád 24
@visegrad2429 Nov 2021
Rapes per 100.000 inhabitants: Slovakia - 1.77 Poland - 1.89 Czechia - 5.65 Hungary - 6 🇸🇰🇵🇱🇨🇿🇭🇺
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#BattleOfBritain ended #OTD 81 years ago. The largest and most effective group of foreign aircrew were from Poland - 145! Never was so much owed by so many to so few! #303Squadron became the most successful Fighter Command unit which shot down 126 German planes in only 42 days.
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Dziewczynka patrząca na ruiny Warszawy🇵🇱️ 3 kwietnia 1946 roku. Fot : Reginald Kenny
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Autumnal reflections of the Wallace Monument in the River Forth. @TheWallaceMon @VisitScotland @BeingScots @StormHour @stirlingcastle @StirlingAWS @StirUni @BBCScotWeather @BBCpictures @STVNews @StirlingCouncil #autumn #autumnalcolours
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