Is Elon Musk creating a utopian city? The hellish, heavenly history of company towns

The Tesla founder has broken ground on a plot in Texas, while Google and Meta are building workers’ homes in California. Should we be celebrating or worrying?

Cost of British food basics increases by up to 80% in a year

Cheddar and budget sausages sold by Asda were highest risers, with supermarkets’ prices for oats and skimmed milk also soaring

How to buy the right laptop for you at the best price

Tech experts on how to work out want you need, set a budget and find the perfect device – or upgrade an existing one

More than 1m UK small businesses ‘trapped in high-cost energy tariffs’

Trade groups say many firms had to renew contracts at market peak in ‘biggest mis-selling scandal since PPI’

Superdry may have to raise new funds as weather dampens profits

Cost of living crisis also hits sales at British fashion brand, which does not expect to make profit this year

Shoppers in Great Britain switch to frozen food amid cost of living crisis

Such products doing ‘notably better’ than fresh items, data from Kantar reported by BBC shows

Boots No7 launches ‘breakthrough’ in skincare – but does science stack up?

While experts cautiously positive on anti-ageing effects of new range, evidence it is ‘world first’ may fall short

Sainsbury’s follows Tesco in cutting price of milk by 5p a pint

Spring oversupply leads to first cut since 2020, although price still third higher than just over year ago

Uber Eats and Coles supermarkets to offer deliveries in Australia under new deal

Transport Workers Union praised the arrangement as a ‘powerful opportunity’ to improve workers’ conditions and entitlements

Tesco profits halve amid ‘incredibly tough year for customers’

Profits down to £753m as retailer faced operating cost inflation and write down on value of some properties

If the lid snaps shut on Tupperware, we’ll all be sorry

Suburbia, feminism, the Queen’s breakfast: you could tell a history of the 20th century through those plastic lifesavers, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

‘There will be fewer British tomatoes on the shelves’: soaring energy costs force growers to quit

Impact is less choice and higher prices, and risk of opening up new front in supermarket salad crisis

Sainsbury’s begins offering lower prices to Nectar card holders

Supermarket’s loyalty scheme discounts follow Tesco’s successful Clubcard Prices deals

Quick lit: vending machines dispense false eyelashes, milk – and now books

The UK vending market, having recovered from lockdown, is experiencing huge growth – but is not yet in Japan’s league

Suite dreams: how luxury sofa firm Maker&Son left its clients standing

The high-end furniture maker was sold to a buyout specialist last year. Now customers and staff say they are stumbling through a paper trail to recover what they are owed