UK supermarkets push for Amazon soy safeguards after traders abandon ban

European retailers urge traders to adhere to commitments after Brazilian lawmakers wreck forest protection pact

Waterstones boss defends government’s business rates shake-up

James Daunt is relaxed about bills and the higher living wage, and says bookselling is having ‘a nice time’

Activists say the retailer has met with clergy but not spoken out against ICE or safeguarded employees and customers

Hobbycraft removes product from sale after parent sent samples to a lab for testing but declines to issue a recall

Discounter relaunches Pep & Co clothing brand after a switch to ranges supplied by its former parent group hit sales

Sales volume rise of 0.4% in December confounds forecasts as new survey shows sharp rebound in consumer confidence

Retailers report weaker sales over festive period amid ‘subdued consumer confidence’

Retailer buys chain from administration for £3.8m adding to portfolio ranging from FatFace to Made.com

Film and TV tie-ins, Lego sets and Toniebox speakers help push sales 6% higher in 2025, after five years of no growth

M&S, Morrisons and Ocado among retailers bringing out ranges targeting shoppers taking Wegovy or similar

From Greenland’s prime minister to Timothée Chalamet, the anorak signals a shift from aspiration to realism

Just more than a year after the new luxury behemoth was formed, it announced it had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy

Debt-riddled retail giant’s demise has cast uncertainty over the future of US luxury fashion

Sales of clothes and computers fall, but discount supermarkets Aldi and Lidl enjoy bumper trading

Retailer to allow ‘one-click purchases’ through assistants such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, beginning in US