Poundland owner secures two extra weeks to ensure retail chain’s survival

US investment firm Gordon Brothers is ‘taking due care’ to consider if one of three bidders has enough funds Business live – latest updates

Burberry returns to profit as sales soar, from £85 socks to £9,000 coats

CEO says ‘democratic approach’ has helped brand outperform tough market, with big rises in China and US

Poundland owner extracted millions when chain was on ‘knife-edge’, MPs say

Retailer’s management to seek two-week extension of legal protection from creditors in high court

‘I’d steal 10-15 times a day’: ex-offenders on the addictions driving prolific shoplifting

Former shoplifters say treatment and drug rehabilitation are essential to ending cycle of theft and imprisonment

Police to target 500 chronic shoplifters in retail crime crackdown in England

Tactics to include GPS tagging for repeat offenders, high street bans and tougher sentences

Aldi cuts hundreds of UK head office roles as part of global cost trimming

Supermarket’s move labelled ‘shortsighted’ by worker who calls upper management ‘woefully out of touch with reality’

Shop workers in the UK: have you experienced abuse from customers?

We’d like to hear from retail workers about their experiences of abuse, threats and violence at work

Britons stockpiling water and food tins but not panic buying, figures show

Shoppers appear to have taken government’s Be Ready campaign seriously, retail analysts say

The hottest product in Britain this year? A 2kg bag of ice

As the UK endured record-breaking temperatures this summer, nothing grew in popularity on Deliveroo like sacks of sweet relief from the supermarket Iceland

Job cuts, lost customers and a £22bn debt pile: what has gone wrong at Virgin Media O2?

The company has lost 182,000 broadband and 644,000 mobile customers in two years and is operating in an increasingly competitive market competition

David Jones was months behind in payments to some small Australian brands before going into administration, suppliers say

Global luxury fashion houses clear their stock from the embattled retailer, but smaller local businesses are at the bottom of the creditor pile

Digested week: The harrowing backstory to the John Lewis Christmas ad

Plus, the king’s regret-without-liability statement on slavery, and getting mogged by Collins dictionary

David Jones wrongly believed it could be exclusive and everywhere. Can the 188-year-old institution keep the lights on for Christmas?

The arbiter of Australian taste abandoned prestige to chase profits through expansion. Now 6,000 staff across 38 stores fear job cuts as ‘difficult decisions’ loom

Poundland’s US owner says retailer remains ‘vulnerable’, after talks with ministers

Gordon Brothers still in ‘active discussions’ with interested parties and seeking to ‘protect as many jobs as possible’

Like many others, 87-year-old Janet came to ‘say goodbye’ to the Australian institution that is David Jones

As Australia’s oldest department store goes into administration, shoppers mourn its demise amid an uncertain future