Scottish convenience store chain Morning Noon & Night has announced record sales of £37.7m for the year to March 24, 12% up on the figure last year. Like for like sales were up 7.1%. Audited profit figures will not be available until June, but founder and chairman Eddie Thompson said he anticipated the percentage increase in profit would exceed the sales increase. With last year's operating profit of £1m, this suggests a total of about £1.15m this year. The chain, which will be 10 years old in June, acquired three more stores during the year, taking the total to 43. The group pioneered the installation of ATMs in convenience stores, and has them at 40 stores. Thompson said that some of the terminals were dispensing more than £100,000 a week, and that adding a terminal to a newly acquired store at Torphins, near Aberdeen, produced an instant 10% increase in turnover. Morning Noon & Night also unveiled a new image for the group at its Clepington Road store in Dundee. The new look will be introduced into all the stores over a three-year period (The Grocer, April 14). Thompson said turnover at the refurbished store was currently up 20% on the same time last year. Thompson said the largest turnover increases for the group this year came from chilled foods, ready meals, beers, wines, confectionery, soft drinks, crisps and snacks and mobile phone top up cards. He added that the current rate of sales was running at £40m a year. {{NEWS }}