Category: Shopping

With each September comes a new academic year and a new back-to-school (BTS) shopping season. What school supplies are Britons buying, and where are they buying them? There are a lot of back-to-school shoppers in Britain. One in five respondents (22%) said they’d participated in BTS shopping in the past year, evenly split between women...

The owner of Ted Baker will on Wednesday announce that it has struck a deal with an American group to re-establish an online presence in the UK, days after its remaining retail stores were shut for good. Sky News has learnt that Authentic, which has owned Ted Baker since 2022, has struck a deal with...

Getty Images Summer sales by fashion retailers trying to shift stock helped shop prices to record their first annual fall for nearly three years, research suggests. Prices in August were down 0.3% from a year ago, the lowest rate since October 2021, according to the British Retail Consortium (BRC). The drop in prices was driven...

Leigh Day Helen Scarsbrook should not have been paid less than men working in Next’s warehouses, the tribunal found More than 3,500 current and former workers at Next have won the final stage of a six-year legal battle for equal pay. An employment tribunal said store staff, who are predominantly women, should not have been...

(Aug 27): Prices in Britain’s shops have fallen for the time in almost three years, as Bank of England (BOE) policymakers mull further interest rate cuts. Retail prices dropped 0.3% from Aug 1 to 7 from a year earlier, according to a report on Tuesday by the British Retail Consortium (BRC). That’s a sharp slowdown from the 0.2%...

UK shop prices have dropped for the first time since the cost of living crisis began nearly three years ago, as food inflation eased and retailers offered discounts on clothes and household goods to shift unsold summer stock. New data showed prices were down 0.3% in the first week of August, compared with the same...

Britain’s smallest shoe shop has been squeezing in customers for the past 25 years despite being a tight fit – at just 3ft (0.9m) wide. Peter Scott Shoes is based in the village of Woodhall Spa, Lincs, and is so tiny that you can touch both walls while standing in the same place on the...

Getty Images Fish and chips is a British family favourite equally enjoyed around the table on a Friday night or out of the paper on an often overcast beach. But the deep fried delicacy has seen the biggest price increase of some of the UK’s most popular takeaways, according to new figures. The average price...

The winners, alongside the other industry sector awards, will be announced on 19th September 2024 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole in what promises to be a spectacular ceremony, hosted by rugby legend Martin Bayfield. Finalist: John Mettrick Butchers, Glossop This retail outlet in the main street in Glossop prides itself on the provenance, traceability and quality...

A shop assistant in Guernsey has been awarded 40 sausage rolls for 40 years of service. Fifty-six-year-old Kevin Parsons started working at the island’s Alliance supermarket in 1984. Bosses marked the anniversary by giving him a certificate, a tropical-themed mural for his home and a sausage roll for each of his next 40 shifts. Mr...