Bed Bath & Beyond sees ‘meme-stock’ surge – but is it too little, too late?

The US home retailer, once worth $17bn, looks destined to enter chapter 11 despite a market rally this week. What went wrong?

Five things we learned from Britons’ Christmas shopping

Online specialists took a hit, inflation is good and bad, and not everyone is skint – but they are nervous

UK economy grew by only 0.1% in November

Figure comes as people began Christmas shopping, while World Cup gave pubs and bars a boost

UK energy bills forecast to fall further in July; US inflation rate drops – as it happened

Investec predict UK energy bills will average £2,500/year in the second half of 2023 year, as US consumer price index falls to 6.5% in year to December

Was there a Christmas miracle on the high street? Not quite

It was a mixed bag as many big retailers remained strong but some stragglers slipped further behind

Halfords shares tumble after shortage of mechanics hits profits

Car parts to bicycles retailer urges government to do more to encourage people to train as technicians

M&S enjoys a bumper Christmas with best ever food sales

Retailer boasts biggest share of clothing and homeware market in seven years, as Tesco hails festive boom

Sainsbury’s sales rise as people turn to its Argos chain amid strikes

Supermarket on track for profits at top end of forecasts after shoppers go ‘all out for big Christmas dinner’

Lidl, Zara’s owner, H&M and Next ‘paid Bangladesh suppliers less than production cost’

Survey of 1,000 factories for campaign group claims many cut rates in pandemic and have not increased them since

Amazon to shut three UK warehouses, putting 1,300 jobs at risk

Doncaster, Hemel Hempstead and Gourock sites to close as well as seven delivery sites, as retailer prepares two new facilities

‘Vin in a tin’: Waitrose cans mini wine bottles in carbon-cutting measure

Supermarket’s switch from glass to aluminium cans expected to halve carbon footprint per drink

Christmas and World Cup help UK retail sales rise in December

Total sales for the month increased by 6.9% compared with a year earlier despite cost of living crisis

‘It’s going to be tough’: Sainsbury’s chief on price cuts, inflation and energy costs

Simon Roberts says supermarket is ‘thinking differently’ as it seeks new ways to compete with Tesco, Aldi and Lidl

Lidl gained 1.3m British shoppers at Christmas amid living costs crisis

Discount supermarket’s sales rise by a quarter year on year in four weeks to 25 December

No Christmas bonus for Tesco staff – but some get box of Quality Street

Workers say they missed out on cash or vouchers again, though supermarket says staff got doubled discount on certain days