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This week is National Vegetarian Week and for those who are fully fledged vegans, veggies or what is known as “flexitarians”, McDonald’s is the place to be. more

UK diesel prices rose to a record of just over £1.80 a litre as efforts to stop importing fuel from Russia pushed up costs for retailers, the RAC said. more

The retailer’s sales were boosted during the pandemic as locked down Britons hired tradespeople to spruce up their properties and gardens. more

Feverish competition for the consumer's wallet begins in the market. The weapon is promotions, which in the first quarter of 2022 increased by over 22% compared to the same period last year. Hypermarkets are the leader. Their growth exceeded 42% y-o-y.more

The government is to delay a ban on multi-buy deals for junk food and pre-watershed TV advertising. The Department of Health said the plans would be deferred for a year while officials assessed the impact on household finances as families struggle with the increasing cost of living.more

A chemical engineer has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over what prosecutors say was a scheme to steal trade secrets about materials used in cans for soda and other drinks to benefit the Chinese government and a Chinese company.more

A host of retailers have removed sandwiches, wraps and ready meals from their shelves following a salmonella outbreak at a UK processing factory. more

The UK could be heading for a recession, analysts have warned, after the economy shrank during March as the rising cost of living hit households.more

Producers of agricultural products in Germany raised prices to a record level in March, the first month after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine - by an average of 34.7 percent. compared to March 2021. This is the largest year-on-year increase in prices in a given month since the start of the survey in 1961, the German Federal Statistical Office reported.more

Brits can enjoy outdoor restaurants for years to come as al fresco dining is reportedly set to become law. more

Big high street pharmacy chains including Boots and Superdrug have run out of some hay fever medicines, with the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, blaming temporary supply issues.more

In Q1 2022, sales of diesel cars fell by one-third y/y, sales of petrol cars by almost 23%, while registrations of purely electric cars jumped by half - writes today's "Rzeczpospolita".more

More than half (51%) of identifiable litter can be traced back to just 10 brands, according to the third annual Planet Patrol report. more

Shoppers not complying with the new legislation will now face tougher punishments, including jail time. more

Boohoo's profits have taken a hit after online shoppers returned clothes at a faster rate than before the pandemic. more

The pub chain said it had returned to profit since March 13 and is hopeful of a further gradual improvement in sales over its final quarter. more

Environment Secretary George Eustice said rising fertiliser and feed costs had hit the farming industry.more

Due to the war in Ukraine, bird flu and rising inflation, there are shortages of certain food products in French supermarkets, including oil, flour and eggs. Sixty per cent of the shortages are in groceries and fresh produce.more

Post Office workers at 114 branches directly owned by the Post Office are staging a one-day strike in a dispute over pay. more

Free-range eggs are returning to supermarket shelves after measures to curb bird flu cases were dropped.more

Profits at Sainsbury's have more than doubled but the supermarket has warned it faces tougher times ahead as shoppers see their finances squeezed. more

Britain’s fish and chip shops are facing the ‘biggest crisis’ in history as they struggle to secure cooking oil due to the war in Ukraine. more

UK shoppers have begun to stockpile some essentials such as cooking oil as grocery price inflation hits it highest level in more than a decade in April. more

Primark has warned that it will increase prices on its autumn and winter collection as costs go up for businesses around the world.more

The British government announced yesterday night that it has lifted tariffs and quantitative quotas on all goods from Ukraine, and has banned the export of products and technology to Russia that can be used to intercept and monitor communications.more