Category: Shopping

More than 100 Body Shop stores have been saved from closure after a deal was struck to rescue one of Britain’s best known high street chains. The well-known retailer was bought out of administration by a consortium led by “Cosmetics King” Mike Jatania. The millionaire tycoon’s investment firm Aurea announced the completion of the acquisition...

The Body Shop has been rescued from administration by a consortium led by the British cosmetics tycoon Mike Jatania in a deal that will keep the ethical beauty brand’s remaining 113 UK stores trading. Auréa, the growth capital firm founded by Jatania and former UBS, Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch executive Paul Raphael, said it...

The new owners of The Body Shop are lining up tens of millions of pounds in new financing as they finalise a deal to buy the chain out of administration. Sky News has learnt that Aurea, an investment company led by Mike Jatania, a cosmetics entrepreneur, is in advanced talks to secure more than £30m...

The new chatbot, which is initially being launched to a subset of customers in Amazon’s mobile app, has been trained on Amazon’s product catalogue and information from across the web to enable it to answer any shopping queries users have. The US tech giant said Rufus can help shoppers with broad research questions such as...

Created in partnership with circular clothing company, Verte, the limited run of pop-ups will launch this month in select Primark stores across the UK, including London, Manchester and Birmingham. The new experience will allow swappers to bring up to five items of adult clothing, bags, hats or scarves in good condition, to be assessed and...

A Spanish craze encouraging single people to seek partners in supermarkets by using a fruit-based code has caused some chaotic scenes and even led to the police being called to restore order. In recent days, many single Spaniards have been drawn to branches of supermarket chain Mercadona between 7pm-8pm by claims they can find romance...

An NHS Trust is investigating after reports a man was slumped dead over a table in a hospital coffee shop for several hours. The man, 36, was found dead at the table at Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich in July, The Sunday Times newspaper reported. It said members of the public and NHS staff,...

A shop worker has said he was “glad there were no customers” in his family’s store when arsonists set it alight, getting scorched in the process. Dramatic footage shows the hooded trio, with their faces covered, walking into Zafs Go Local in Butler Street, Manchester, at about 17:40 BST on Sunday. One man pours petrol...

‘I stole to order’, £300-a-day former shoplifter tells BBC A former prolific shoplifter who stole goods worth “tens of thousands” of pounds has told a BBC investigation how he regularly sold the items to other shops. Ross, who has 15 convictions for shoplifting but has never been to prison, estimated he stole goods worth £300...

The owner of a high street mobile phone shop has become the first person in the UK to be charged with operating an illegal cryptocurrency ATM, according to Kent Police. Officers carried out a search warrant at the Gadcet shop in Chatham’s High Street on 28 April 2023, where they said they seized a number...