Kwarteng’s latest ‘we’re listening’ messaging fails to reduce credibility gap

Worryingly, gilt yields are rising again and another potential cliff-edge moment comes on Friday

UK retailers hit by drop in footfall as energy bills rise

Fall of 0.2% recorded in week starting 2 October, with biggest dip in shopping centres and retail parks

Thousands of salaried Tesco workers forced to take real-terms pay cut

A 3% pay rise for team managers amid 10% inflation comes after a string of wage rises for hourly staff

Beauty Pie founder Marcia Kilgore: ‘We all need that lift, don’t we?’

She created FitFlop, and sold a company to LVMH at just 30. But could the cost of living crisis take the gloss off the cosmetics queen’s buyers’ club model?

Cash and carry stores: can buying in bulk cut your shopping bills?

Chains such as Costco and Booker are attracting more shoppers as living costs rise – here’s how their deals stack up

Fears of Christmas goose shortages as UK’s biggest producer hit by bird flu

UK’s only large-scale supplier is understood to have suffered multiple outbreaks over the past week

Superdry returns to profit despite talks on £70m overdraft facility

Co-founder Julian Dunkerton says being ‘cool again’ with TikTok generation helped turn previous £37m loss into £18m profit

Hot sellers: onesies are back as Britons try to save on energy bills

Stores stock up on hooded blankets, heated ponchos and microwavable slippers as heating costs soar

Twitter’s board deserves credit for Elon Musk’s U-turn

By sticking to its guns the firm has defended the excellent principle that bidders should do what they’ve agreed to do

Tesco to cut 300 head office jobs while raising pay for shop workers

Supermarket aims to make £500m of savings but will freeze prices on more than 1,000 products until 2023

UK supermarkets accused of raising fuel margins despite petrol price drop

Cost of filling up car has fallen to below £90 but RAC says major retailers are taking extra 10p a litre in margins

John Lewis plans ‘buy back or take back’ schemes in all product categories by 2025

Group will also develop more rental and resale options as it aims to be more sustainable

British shoppers likely to spend £4.4bn less on non-essentials during Christmas period

The cost of living crisis means almost 60% of shoppers expect to cut back in retail’s ‘golden quarter’

‘It’s just so easy, isn’t it?’ How buy now, pay later can leave Britons struggling with debt

We spend almost £1bn a month through retailers’ spread-the-cost payment schemes. But many borrowers find themselves missing payments, covering instalments with credit cards – and using the schemes to pay for food and other essentials. Is online credit spiralling out of control?

Retailers have stocked up on festive goodies, but will anyone buy them?

The fallout from the mini-budget is adding to high street jitters in the run-up to what is traditionally the busiest time of the year