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Customers feeling raw after Tesco adds 25p to price of a meal deal

The offer still represents a significant saving but rises to £3.85 for Clubcard holders and £4.25 for others

Target CEO steps down as company faces weak sales and customer boycott

Brian Cornell to be replaced next year as retailer navigates boycott over its scaling back of DEI initiatives

Asda is still misfiring in supermarkets’ non-existent price war

With sales and market share shrinking, the notion that the chain could imperil Tesco and Sainsbury’s always felt fanciful

Shein looks at moving back to China for Hong Kong listing after London IPO stalls

Fashion retailer considered £50bn float in London but has not received backing from Chinese authorities

Lidl close to overtaking Morrisons as UK’s fifth-biggest supermarket

Sales growth at German-owned discounter is more than double that of the wider market

Waterstones opens 10 new stores a year as younger adults embrace reading

Bookshop chain says people are keen to escape their screens and says rise in sales is partly down to BookTok

‘People have a right to be happy’: the former Waitrose boss on how the UK can boost productivity

Mark Price says solving worker misery will get people back into the labour market and spur the growth the government seeks

Iceland offering £1 reward scheme for customers who report a shoplifter

Grocery chain employees will verify the incident and the reward will be added to the shopper’s loyalty card

Online fashion retailer Shein’s UK sales leap by a third to more than £2bn

Profits rise 56% to £38.2m in 2024 as company overtakes British rival Boohoo and closes in on Asos

Share your memories of Claire’s Accessories

We’d like to hear your memories of the jewellery retailer as it prepares to appoint administrators in the UK and Ireland

Birkenstock sales step up in ‘ugly shoe summer’

Price rises and strong demand for closed-toe clogs lead to 16% sales increase for German sandal maker

Claire’s to appoint administrator in UK and Ireland, putting 2,150 jobs at risk

Jewellery retailer takes decision a week after bankruptcy filings by parent company in US and Canada

Warm weather and England’s Euros success lifted UK retail sales in July

Sunnier picture clouded by warning that mooted higher taxes could lead to shop closures and job losses

Greedy ruthlessness has had a great PR campaign in business – but these toy shop owners show a better way

The husband-and-wife founders of The Entertainer, which has 160 stores in the UK, will soon transfer their business to their employees. It shows that profit isn’t the only thing worth caring about, writes Zoe Williams

The Entertainer founder to hand over UK’s biggest toy shop chain to staff

Gary Grant transferring 100% ownership of family-owned business to employee trust by end of September

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