Local retailers to enjoy good shopper support this Christmas, study reveals
Over half of consumers are planning to support small businesses in the final run up to Christmas, according to a study from Paymentsense.
More than...
Cigar market decline continues
The cigar market has experienced a 2.2% decline in MAT volume to 282 million cigars sold in the year to 4 November 2018, according...
Costcutter’s longest serving retailers now run the flagship store for the North East
Costcutter Supermarkets Group’s longest serving retailers, Mike and Michelle Brown, who have clocked up 29 years with the Group, have invested in a significant...
Scottish Budget caps business rates increase at below inflation level
Scotland will introduce a below-inflation cap of 2.1 percent on business rate increases, Finance Secretary Derek Mackay announced in the budget statement delivered yesterday...
Moving food to go section to front does the trick for this Dunstable store
A re-fit which involved moving the food to go offering from the rear of the store to the front is paying rich dividends for...
PM May survives leadership challenge; Brexit woes likely to continue
Prime Minister Theresa May survived a confidence vote by the Conservative Party on Wednesday, but a mutiny by more than a third of her...
Sainsbury’s and Asda seek judicial review of CMA merger inquiry
Sainsbury's and Asda today (12 December) said they will lodge an application with the Competition Appeal Tribunal for a judicial review of the Competition...
Welsh shops to get up to £2,500 cut in business rates
Welsh Government is investing £23.6 million to enhance and extend the high street rates relief scheme in 2019-20.
Around 15,000 businesses high street businesses and...
Home Office minister holds roundtable on retail crime
Victoria Atkins, junior minister at the Home Office responsible for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability held on Tuesday a roundtable discussing violence against retailers and shopworkers...
Tory MPs trigger leadership challenge; May vows to fight on
Prime Minister Theresa May vowed on Wednesday to fight a challenge to her leadership of the Conservative Party, saying a change now would delay...