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Retail industry

3 October 2024

  • 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

30 September 2024

  • A sign with logos of supermarkets Coles, Woolworths and Aldi

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

    Australia’s grocery duopoly has leapfrogged peers when it comes to profitability – these charts prove it
  • Shoppers carrying bags on a high street

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

    Overall shop price deflation was 0.6% in September compared with 0.3% in August, says trade body
  • 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

    Sports Direct owner looks to up 37% stake to 100% amid concerns for future of cash-strapped fashion firm

29 September 2024

  • A large pile of waste food vegetables

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

    More than 30 businesses have written to the environment secretary calling for mandatory reporting of wasted food

27 September 2024

  • 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

26 September 2024

  • A Morrisons store

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

    Transaction will reportedly provide investment firm Song Capital with ground rent on 76 supermarkets for 45 years
  • Member of staff holds a package at an Amazon warehouse.

    Amazon UK pays corporation tax for first time since 2020

    End of ‘super-deduction’ means Amazon UK Services paid £18.7m last year, as British arm raked in sales of £27bn
  • Primark store in Edinburgh

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

    Fast fashion chain has brought catwalk trends at low prices – but faced criticism over cost to planet

25 September 2024

  • A pack of Tesco hummus

    Open sesame? Sainsbury’s and Tesco drop lids from pots of hummus

  • A customer carrying a Co-op tote bag

    Co-op chain turns to AI to identify criminals with weapons

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