UK shop inflation sticks at 4.3% despite lower food price rises
Retailers warn post-Brexit checks on fresh food due from April could further drive up shopping costs
Aldi and Lidl report record Christmas sales amid cost of living crisis
Shoppers switch to discounters and buy more own-label goods to offset hefty food price inflation
Fitter working for Sharps takes legal action over employment rights
Firm says he is a self-employed subcontractor, but he says he is a worker and should get holidays and sick pay
Retailers want rest of UK to follow Scotland’s example over law protecting shop staff
Holyrood imposed law creating a statutory offence of assaulting, threatening or abuse of retail workers
Period pants to get cheaper as tax on product abolished
Retailers including Marks & Spencer and Tesco promise to pass on savings to customers after VAT axed
Britons cut back on dining out and buying clothes, Barclays reveals
Annual card spending report says consumers are prioritising travel and nights out and buying value-range groceries amid cost of living crisis
Retailers to pay for consumers’ e-waste recycling from 2026 under UK plans
Households will be able to drop off cables and other electrical waste in-store or have home collections, says Defra
Boxing Day footfall in central London returns to pre-pandemic levels
Influx of high street shoppers should cheer retailers with numbers up by nearly 9% on 2022
WH Smith’s ‘WHS’ rebrand criticised for similarity to NHS logo
New signage seen on 10 stores during trial sparks online backlash from customers
Tesco switches pocket tissue packaging to paper to cut plastic waste
Forest Stewardship Council-certified packs will eliminate almost 35 tonnes of soft plastic waste a year
Landfills and liquidation sales: what happens to the purchases you return?
This year, US consumers returned 20% of the items they ordered online, and the waste and environmental cost is high
Failure to stem rising cost of formula in UK putting babies at risk, say experts
Leading doctors and charities urge children’s health minister to take action to support struggling families
Pint of wine, anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’
Winemakers question plan as government champions Brexit ‘freedom’ to allow old-fashioned size
Boxing Day footfall rises but number of shoppers is well down on pre-Covid levels
Weaker Christmas spending amid cost of living crisis and fewer shops opening cut visitor numbers by 30% on 2019
Boxing Day shoppers expected to spend £3.7bn, a big drop on last year
Some big retailers stay shut as Black Friday overshadows traditional sales and people watch their budgets