Bookmakers' share prices showed the impact of the government's announcement that the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals is to be slashed to £2 in a bid to combat problem gambling.more
Consumers who shop both in traditional and on-line stores, spend more than twice as many as those who prefer only traditional stores - according to the Deloitte report.more
Japanese carmaker Nissan will gradually stop selling diesel cars in Europe, in a further sign of weakening demand for those cars as customers worry about tax rises and looming bans and restrictions related to diesel in many countries.more
Sainsbury's is trialling a new fleet of electric grocery delivery bikes in south London - the first of their kind in the UK. Five zero emission bikes will deliver up to 100 orders a day from the Streatham Common store as part of the supermarket's new initiative. more
Retailers in Scotland must now ensure a unit of alcohol is not priced below 50p, in a government bid to reduce the high number of alcohol-related deaths in the country each year.more
Sainsbury's and ASDA are in advanced talks about a merge that would create a more powerful rival to UK market leader Tesco, it has been been confirmed. more
A supermarket on a Scottish island had had to stop offering shopping baskets after a series of thefts that saw 15 going missing every week. The company said that there were more baskets on order for the shop on the Isle of Lewis but it would take six weeks before the baskets would arrive.more
In the coming months, there will be no changes to the law restricting trade on Sunday - said Stanisław Szwed, deputy minister of the family, labor and social policy. more
New stores are opening on UK High Streets at their lowest rate in seven years, research suggests. The Local Data Company, which studied the top 500 British town centres, found there were 4,083 new store openings in 2017, the lowest since 2010.more
Environmentalists have hit out at Sainsbury's for introducing plastic chicken pouches for "millennials who are afraid of touching raw meat". The supermarket giant said it would be selling chicken in straight-to-pan plastic pouches after a survey revealed that many shoppers under the age of 35 were afraid to touch raw meat.more
Carpetright is set to close down 92 stores across the UK, with 300 jobs set to be lost in the process. The carpet specialists have been struggling, with profits falling, and have blamed 'poorly-located' stores for some of their problems.more
The Inspection of Trade Quality of Agricultural and Food Products carried out inspections of food products in order to check whether they met the sanitary requirements and those declared by the producer.more
A food price war is being forecast as the first major supermarket price survey in a decade shows variations of up to 50 per cent in the cost of own-brand goods. Competition on price will intensify in the coming months as the big five food chains fight for market share in a booming economy, according to retail analysts Grant Thornton.more
Yes, one of the Tories' anti-obesity measures is the introduction of a new sugar tax, which will apparently help balance out the impact of obesity on the NHS.more
This week is Good Friday, which means an extra day off for many of us in the UK, but this also means that many stores will be running reduced hours.more
