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Supermarket chain Asda is offering people aged 60 and over the chance to enjoy soup, a roll and unlimited tea and coffee for just £1 in any of its 205 cafes to help with the cost of living crisis. The offer is available all day, every day throughout November and December.more

Tim Martin today invoked Macbeth to describe the travails facing the pub trade as his Wetherspoon empire fell to an annual loss of £30 million. more

The latest research by GfK Corona Mood, which quotes today's "Rzeczpospolita", shows that 27 percent of people are guided by shopping patriotism. respondents, although in 2021 there were even more than 40% of them. The reason given is the impoverishment of the society on the Vistula River.more

Customers initially thought they may be able to get their hands on adult versions of Happy Meals but McDonald's has confirmed they won't be available in the UKmore

Motorists are being denied a 10p per litre cut in petrol prices as major retailers seize profits at the pump, figures show. more

Tesco has said people are "watching every penny" as they try to make ends meet, amid rising costs. more

British shoppers are expected to spend £4.4bn less on non-essentials – a fall of 22% – in the run-up to Christmas as a surge in the cost of living puts a squeeze on their spare cash.more

The average price of a new car in August was higher by 13.9 percent year on year. However, the purchase price of the car along with the financing costs (credit, leasing) increased by over a third - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more

Food prices rose at their fastest rate on record in September, with products such as milk and cakes getting more expensive, the British Retail Consortium says.more

The technology company Proxi.cloud and the analytical and research platform UCE RESEARCH compared the behavior of over 280,000 discount customers from the first half of this year. and from the same period last year. The respondents visited a total of over 5,000 institutions of this type all over the country.more

Retailers in Britain are looking to increase pay and attract staff in a tight labour market, as workers are increasingly taking to strike action amid a cost-of-living crisis in the country.more

Retailers and the hospitality industry have welcomed the planned return of VAT-free shopping for international tourists, saying it would help to boost sales.more

The death of Elizabeth II and the assumption of the throne by her son Charles III will entail not only a redesign of British passports and money. The packaging of the hundreds of products that boast the royal recommendation must also be redesigned.more

Figures published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy show a litre of petrol cost an average of 165.5p on Monday, while diesel was 181.1p per litre. more

Experts commenting on the latest data from stores believe that the peak of inflation in Poland is still ahead of us. However, they disagree as to whether it will come in fall or early 2023, or maybe only in spring.more

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss admitted yesterday that a free trade agreement with the United States - which was cited as one of the main benefits of Brexit - is unlikely in the short to medium term.more

Tomorrow, on the day of Queen Elizabeth II's state funeral, most stores in the UK will be closed.more

The pound has fallen to a new 37-year low against the US dollar after figures showed UK retail sales fell sharply in August as the rise in the cost of living continued to hit households.more

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the Consumer Prices Index inflation (CPI) reached 10.1% last month, putting households under even more pressure as food prices spiked and pushed inflation to yet another 40-year high. more

Sainsbury’s has raised pay for staff again and offered free food during shifts as part of a £25 million package to support workers facing cost-of-living pressures. The UK’s second largest supermarket chain said £20 million of the cash boost will go towards a pay increase.more

Aldi has overtaken Morrisons to become the fourth-largest UK supermarket for the first time, according to data from research firm Kantar.more

Revolut has launched a new online checkout feature which will allow merchants to offer Revolut Pay as a payment method on their websites.more

Supermarkets and high street shops plan to close for the Queen's funeral as a mark of respect. more

Ocado has warned that annual sales will drop because customers are trading down to value products and buying less overall amid a worsening cost-of-living crisis. more

Curry houses are having to choose between charging up to £30 a dish or shutting down in the face of soaring costs, an industry leader has warned. more