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Retail industry

3 October 2024

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Tesco is unbeatable when it concentrates on the day job

    Nils Pratley
    Having exited most of its overseas adventures the retailer is an advertisement for the virtues of sticking to the knitting
  • An aerial view of waves washing up tons of disarded clothing

    The alternatives
    ‘Because secondhand is feckin’ grand’: how clothes swapping became huge in Ireland

    After seeing the consequences of fast fashion, one woman is on a mission to change the way we think about repurposing clothes
  • A staff member on an aisle at a Tesco store

    Tesco Boss says new workers’ rights laws must not hurt growth

    Bill is likely to include measures such as ending ‘exploitative’ zero-hours contracts and changes to sick pay

2 October 2024

  • Tents at a Dorset campsite

    JD Sports’ UK business hit by bad weather and Red Sea disruption

  • a daytime picture of the Harrods store in Knightsbridge taken from the opposite side of the street

    Veteran Harrods executive drops plan to head Fenwick amid Al Fayed controversy

1 October 2024

  • Nike shoes displayed at a sporting goods store in New York City.

    Nike postpones investor meeting after hiring new Boss amid falling sales

  • A Dobbies garden centre

    Garden centre chain Dobbies to shut 17 stores as part of restructuring plan

  • An avocado green bathroom suite

    Avocado bathrooms are back in UK as younger homeowners go green

  • A Mulberry handbag for sale in a store in New York

    Mulberry rejects £83m takeover bid from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group

  • Online retailer eBay scraps fees for private sellers in UK

  • Moana and other screen favourites set to top Christmas toy lists, says Hamleys

  • Profit margins at Coles and Woolworths were in line with major overseas supermarkets in 2008. Now they’re the highest in the world

  • UK shop prices fall at fastest rate since 2021 despite rising fresh food inflation

September 2024

  • a model in a brown dress/coat holds a circular shaped teal coloured leather handbag

    Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group makes £83m offer for handbag maker Mulberry

  • A large pile of waste food vegetables

    Force companies to report their food waste, say leading UK retailers

  • Women try beauty products in a store in Seoul

    Promise of ‘glass skin’ drives surge in sales of K-beauty products in UK

  • Raw chickens in a supermarket

    UK supermarkets not doing enough to tackle antibiotic misuse, report says

  • Morrisons agrees £331m property deal on extra long leases to cut debt pile

  • Amazon UK pays corporation tax for first time since 2020

  • From 99p blouses to a fast-fashion giant: Primark’s 50 years on the UK high street

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