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Nandy opens door to scrapping retail tourist tax
Culture Secretary says she would be ‘happy to look at the evidence’ to support bringing back VAT-free shopping for overseas visitors
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Plastic bag loophole means billions still being used despite 10p levy
While 10p charge has driven down high-street use, the levy does not apply to the booming industry of online purchases
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Supermarkets to land planning boost in battle against German discounters
Big British retailers poised to be given permission to challenge plans for Aldi and Lidl stores
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How Vinted killed the charity shop
Lower-quality donations fill stores as shoppers turn to resale websites for cash
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‘The government is destroying independent fashion boutiques like mine. I won’t vote Labour again’
New business rates are crippling small stores, causing designers like Dragana Perisic to close their beloved shops
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Primark boss resigns over inappropriate behaviour
Paul Marchant steps down with immediate effect after investigation into conduct towards woman
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How Le Creuset lost its crown to copycats
Much-loved French cookware brand is battling an army of cheaper ‘dupes’
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Shoppers brace for £1.7bn of price rises after Reeves’s tax raid
Retailers scramble to offset rising bills in wake of National Insurance increases and higher wages
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WH Smith has lost its way, but I remember the glory days of the ‘win a pony’ competition
Complete with a year’s livery
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Asda mulls moving jobs overseas in cost-cutting drive
Social media roles are the latest at risk as the supermarket swings the axe
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Saying ‘blind drunk’ is offensive to disabled people, says retailer
B&Q needs to get a grip, say critics over guide that uses the phrase ‘sex assigned at birth’ and advises workers on ‘coming out’
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WH Smith stores to be rebranded with made-up name
Retailer to become ‘TG Jones’ after more than 230 years on UK high streets
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Morrisons to axe hundreds of jobs and shut cafes to relieve debt pressures
Chief executive Rami Baitiéh blames National Insurance raid for accelerated cost cutting
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£5 pints to be the norm after Reeves tax raid
Average London prices could top £7 as pubs pass Chancellor’s costs burden to customers
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Ocado waters down ethnic minority targets as bosses go cold on DEI
Retail technology company blames retention success for change to diversity goals
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Ann Summers tries to crack the market where sex toys get you arrested
The British retailer will open shops across the Middle East as demand for lingerie booms
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Topshop’s rumoured Oxford Street comeback may be too late
The high-street store once defined British affordable fashion and pop culture, but can it recapture the millennial zeitgeist?
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‘Messy and dirty’ Asda stores risk turnaround, supermarket warned
Empty shelves and a shortage of fresh produce highlighted by analysts
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Battle of the billionaires looms as Mike Ashley’s rival gains ground at Asos
Danish fashion magnate Anders Holch Povlsen cements position as retailer’s largest shareholder
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The five signs your town is posh enough for a Gail’s
The bakery’s red awnings have become the quintessential symbol of an upmarket neighbourhood – but would yours make the cut?
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Britons have gone off breakfast cereal, says Shreddies maker
Manufacturer cuts 300 jobs as greater competition and changes in eating habits hit demand
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Struggling Asda has started a desperate supermarket price war
Supermarket’s multibillion-pound debt pile risks undermining effort to compete on cost
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Ralph Lauren stylist wins racism claim over ‘United Colours of Benetton’ comment
Mixed-race worker awarded £11,000 after her ‘dignity was violated’, employment judge rules
