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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterates that if we fail to conclude a free trade agreement with the European Union - modeled on Canada's - the Australian option is a good solution. The Australian option in practice means no deal with EU.more

Supermarkets in Wales will be banned from selling non-essential items like clothes and hardware during the firebreak lockdown.more

British retail sales have continued to increase for the fifth consecutive month, boosted by non-food items including DIY and garden supplies, according to official figures.more

McDonald’s is selling thousands of meal items past their "best before" dates after the chain was forced to close due to the pandemic.more

Liz Truss, the UK's international trade secretary, signed the agreement with Toshimitsu Motegi, the Japanese foreign minister, in Tokyo on Friday.more

Royal Mail postal workers will for the first time collect parcels on the doorstep, in one of the biggest changes to the service as it adapts to the decline in letters and rapid growth in online shopping.more

Waitrose and the Co-op are cutting prices on hundreds of essential goods this week as supermarkets prepare to battle it out for customers ahead of a budget Christmas season. more

Due to the epidemic in Germany, the local social media swarmed over the weekend with photos with the hashtag #toilettenpapier showing empty shop shelves - informs the daily "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".more

The pandemic has troubled the coffee shop market, but the change is deeper than just a temporary drain of customers. "We buy coffee machines - Poland is already their fourth market in Europe" - today's Rzeczpospolita informs.more

As a result of the second wave of the pandemic, food spending could increase for the first time in decades, Deloitte believes. Supply chains are long and complex; approx. 30 percent food products are wasted before reaching the consumer - he adds.more

People will be able to ask for cash from local shops - even if they do not buy anything, under government plans.more

JD Wetherspoon has reported its first annual pre-tax loss since 1984 as it laid bare the impact of coronavirus restrictions on the pubs industry. more

Morrisons, Waitrose and John Lewis have said they won't be using glitter in own-brand Christmas products this year..more

Yesterday, (Sunday), as a result of routine profiling, Revenue officers seized 21,900 cigarettes at Cork Airport. The smuggled cigarettes were discovered in the carry-on baggage of two Polish nationals who had disembarked a flight from Gdansk in Poland.more

PayPal in the UK introduced a new payment option - payment in three installments - with zero interest. According to the giant, both customers and entrepreneurs will benefit from the new solution in times of an epidemic.more

The Swedish giant will next month launch a scheme to buy back your unwanted Billy bookcases, and certain other of its furniture items you no longer need or want.more

Amazon is facing boycott calls over its business practices and a strike in Germany as its Prime Day sale begins.more

Channel 4 aired a new documentary called "The Truth About Your Sandwich" which shed new light on the standards of the "sandwich industry". The authors of the program conducted a study which shows that even every third sandwich has an unknown origin.more

Edinburgh Woollen Mill, owner of the Peacocks and Jaeger clothing brands, says it plans to appoint administrators in an attempt to save the business.more

Canada has introduced a plan to ban harmful single-use plastics by the end of 2021. The move came to address plastic pollution and achieve the country's goal of zero plastic waste by 2030, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told a news conference on Wednesday.more

British employers planned 58,000 redundancies in August, taking the total to 498,000 for the first five months of the Covid crisis.more

On October 1, 2020, a new tax on liquid for electronic cigarettes came into force in Poland. more

Major supermarkets have issued product recalls for a range of foods including cakes, biscuits, milk, rice, sweeteners and pet food. Sainsbury's, the Co-op, Lidl and Waitrose are among those recalling items that could prove a potential hazard to some consumers.more

Only 13 percent. Polish internet users are not currently buying online. It is difficult to convince the undecided, but those who are already convinced buy with more and more enthusiasm, reports Rzeczpospolita today.more

Two billionaire brothers from Blackburn have won the battle to buy Asda from Walmart of the US, in a deal valuing the supermarket chain at £6.8bn. more