Most of Bella Freud’s Marks & Spencer collection sells out in a day

Retailer says designer’s 27-piece collaboration, launched on Thursday, will not be restocked

This couple has re-created the sights and smells of a Senegalese market in Brooklyn: ‘Experiences keep people coming back’

The Rue Dix marketplace and restaurant in Crown Heights offers Senegalese fashion and flavor

Hot ticket: Brooklyn Beckham is latest celebrity to launch fiery sauce

Beckham is hot on heels of Ed Sheeran, Alice Cooper and Kim Kardashian as consumers develop appetite for spicy sauces

Retail sales growth slows in Great Britain despite tech spending lift

Sales volumes unexpectedly rise in September but are held back by drop in supermarket shopping

Simply Be owner N Brown agrees £191m takeover by founding Alliance family member

Joshua Alliance to pay 40p in cash for each share of N Brown stock not already owned by himself and family

‘Shop like our nan!’ Call for supermarket ban on plastic packaging for fresh goods

Anti-waste charity Wrap wants ban on 21 items including tomatoes, apples, potatoes, bananas and carrots

Tesco signs deal to buy enough solar energy to power 144 large stores

Supermarket will buy almost two-thirds of the energy generated by the new £450m Cleve Hill solar park in Kent

The Temu pig T-shirt: the truth behind a tremendously disturbing top

It is nightmarish, haunted and cursed – but makes perfect sense when you consider its retailer’s business model. After all, no one can argue it isn’t eye-catching ...

Fenwick department store chain reports seventh year of losses

Family-owned group closed shop on London’s Bond Street in February and has eight stores led by Newcastle

Rachel Reeves must keep promise to ease business rates burden, say retailers

Plea comes as analysis warns of £2.7bn tax hike mainly affecting smaller retail, leisure and hospitality firms

Mulberry’s owner rejects increased £111m bid from Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group

Majority owner, Challice, says it has no interest in selling shares to group that already owns 37% of luxury brand

Independent gyms jump into gaps in UK high street amid shift to local living

More than 1,000 independent health clubs have opened since 2019 as landlords look for alternatives to retail

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group takes £10m stake in online retailer THG

Move is part of THG raising £95.4m to fund demerger of lossmaking technology arm Ingenuity

Ikea says cutting prices ‘remains a priority’ after UK sales slide

Sales down nearly 7% to £2.3bn in year to August as number of items sold fell back and retailer lowered prices

Amazon criticised as Tommy Robinson book tops bestseller chart

Campaign group says site is platforming far-right activist by stocking book, which reached No 1 this week