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Retail industry

February 2025

  • Banner reading: "Tesco Stornoway: Profit before community values. Keep our culture and traditions. No Sunday opening" on a hedge next to a house and 20 mph speed sign

    ‘Greed and money over community’: in Stornoway, locals are divided over Tesco’s Sunday opening

    The Hebridean island’s shops have remained firmly closed on the Sabbath for decades – but now the supermarket giant has bucked the trend
  • Tom Sparrow, 16, Tobias Pickett, 21, and Phoebe Wingfield, 18, outside WH Smith.

    ‘Dark and dingy’ or ‘a real loss’? Shoppers react to possible loss of WH Smith

    Stevenage is one of 500 UK towns where threatened closures will affect local retailers and the publishing trade
  • Person choosing full-fat milk in supermarket

    Full-fat milk sales rise as UK’s appetite for low-calorie options cools

    Whole milk, full-fat yoghurt and blocks of butter in demand as shoppers go back to basics to avoid processed food

30 January 2025

  • Skibidi Toilet mystery mini figures.

    Evil toilets, terror food and billionaire Squishmallows: my eye-popping day at the UK’s giant toy fair

  • Tim Dowling standing in his front doorway, wearing a handbag around his neck

    My week with a man bag: am I cool enough for winter’s hottest trend?

  • A hand putting an item inside a bag with a supermarket aisle in the background

    ‘Some steal to order’: on the frontline of UK shoplifting epidemic

  • A Co-op store in London illuminated at night with its doors open

    Crime ‘spiralling out of control’ in stores, warns British Retail Consortium

29 January 2025

  • A reusable fabric tote bag

    Brief letters
    Tote couture? My old bag’s a classic

  • A WH Smith blue logo sign bearing the words 'established 1792' atop a store

    WH Smith UK high street sales fall as stores put on the market

28 January 2025

  • An asda supermarket entrance

    Asda ditches Aldi and Lidl price-match scheme just a year after launch

  • Waitrose trolleys in a car park

    Your problems, with Anna Tims
    Waitrose won’t pay my claim after a £5,000 car park trolley crash

27 January 2025

  • Amazon Prime drones taking off

    Amazon asks permission to launch drones in north-east of England

    Deliveries from warehouse in Darlington, County Durham, depend on approval from CAA and local council
  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Gravity finally catches up with WH Smith on the high street

    Nils Pratley
    Despite the retailer being a recent example of pragmatic management, the pandemic may have sealed its fate
  • A customer at a WH Smith store in London, Britain

    WH Smith sale plan could turn some areas into ‘postal deserts’, says union

    Retailer operates 200 post offices and potential closures called ‘devastating, but sadly all too predictable’

26 January 2025

  • WH Smith logo on signage

    WH Smith puts UK high street stores up for sale creating uncertainty for workers

  • M&S in Hampstead Heath, and Waitrose in Finchley, Vox Pops, for New, 23/01/2025. Sophia Evans for The Observer Marie

    Waitrose v M&S: free coffee, longer toilet paper and the battle to win over the middle class shopper

25 January 2025

  • People walking into a WH Smith high street shop

    WH Smith considers sale of high street business including more than 500 stores

  • A diamond jeweller looks at the products in his shop window

    Diamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing down

  • A barista making a cup of coffee in a cafe

    Gig economy firms warned by UK government they may be operating illegally

  • Fairtrade food packet labeling

    Fairtrade could help tackle exploitation in UK factories and farms, new boss says

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