Co-op cyber-attack: stock availability in stores ‘will not improve until weekend’

Group in ‘recovery phase’ and working closely with suppliers after customers complain of empty shelves

M&S says some personal data was taken in cyber-attack

Details taken are names, addresses and Marks & Spencer order histories, the Guardian understands

Warm weather and Easter weekend boosted UK spending in April, says Barclays

Consumers shrugged off anxiety over effect of US tariffs as card spending grew by 4.5% year on year

UK food shops report ‘massive’ rise in pensioner shoplifting

Kingdom Services boss says retailers seeing ‘different sort of shoplifter’ with more theft by people ‘who just can’t afford food’

Bicester Village at 30: how a wet field in Oxfordshire defied the death of the shopping mall

With almost 100% occupancy and a waiting list for pop-up spaces, the Disneyland-inspired fashion mecca is bucking trends

From snail slime to salmon sperm: the K-beauty boom hits UK high streets

South Korean skincare retailers want to capitalise on viral sales of beauty ranges by opening high street stores across the UK

Next sales buoyed by unusually warm spring weather in UK

Fashion and homeware retailer continues winning streak with revenues £55m higher than expected

John Lewis’s chair Jason Tarry to earn more than £1.3m this year

Ex-Tesco executive, who joined the group last year, earned £415,000 in his first four and a half months in the job

Co-op rushes to fix contactless payment issue in some stores amid cyber-attack fallout

Chain says up to one in 10 stores was affected on Tuesday morning but issue now fixed in all branches

Baking a deal? Hovis and Kingsmill owners in talks about historic merger

Associated British Foods’ sale of Allied Bakeries would bring together two of the UK’s biggest breadmakers

‘Women designing for women’: the new wave dominating UK high street

Whistles recruits ex-Topshop design chief, while M&S, Uniqlo and Cos thrive with women in top creative roles

Sainsbury’s tea to return to Fairtrade label after dropping it in 2017

‘Tipping point’ as supermarket’s move will increase amount of Fairtrade tea sold in UK by almost 50%

Clothing shortages, food waste and millions lost each day: inside the M&S cyber-attack chaos

‘It’s easier to list the things that work than the things that don’t’, said one worker, but customers are impressed with staff resilience and analysts believe the retailer will bounce back

Co-op apologises after hackers extract ‘significant’ amount of customer data

The National Cyber Security Centre and the National Crime Agency are assisting with an inquiry, the group said

M&S boss urges shoppers to visit stores in person as it battles cyber-attack

Retailer ‘working day and night’ to tackle incident that has hit its online operations