During the pandemic, Poles manage their budgets more carefully, but do not give up on investments, according to an ING study conducted jointly with GFK.more
Amazon is set to take on supermarkets by offering a free food delivery service, with the aim of serving millions of shoppers across the UK by the end of 2020.
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Poles love products from China - AliExpress attracts many more customers than leading Polish e-stores. The pandemic helped the expansion of online trade, Rzeczpospolita reported today.more
Marks & Spencer (M&S) will serve notice this week of imminent plans for hundreds of job cuts as it becomes the latest prominent retailer to restructure its workforce in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.more
IKEA is set to launch a vegan version of its much-loved meatballs in a bid to be more sustainable. The Swedish furniture giant will sell the plant-based treat in its food halls across the UK from 3rd August.more
The pandemic means that every sixth Pole buys online, according to a Santander Consumer Bank study. Online shopping makes 17 percent. inhabitants, in medium-sized cities, such as Kielce or Radom, this percentage is 9 percent - we read.more
In Germany, those willing to install a swimming pool in the garden are celebrated with a pass - there is no chance at least until November. Garden pools sold out on the trunk, wholesalers have been empty for several weeks - today the "Frankfurter Allgemaine Zeitung” informs.more
Budget supermarket Lidl has unveiled plans to open a new store every week until Christmas, creating 1,000 jobs, and then keep going into next year and the year after until 100 new shops are openmore
The UK economy grew by 1.8% in May as businesses across the country started to unlock. But the figures from the Office of National Statistics will have done little to boost hopes of a V-shaped recovery as the economy remains much smaller than in February earlier this year before lockdown was implemented.more
Liz Truss, Minister for International Trade, denied that Great Britain is preparing to lower food safety standards in order to reach a trade agreement with the US. She indicated that "a common market with a third country does not mean inferior food."more
The Government is set to spend more than £700 million on new infrastructure, staff and technology to create new border with the EU when the UK leaves at the end of the year.more
A series of leading UK supermarkets have told Business Insider that they will never sell chlorinated chicken or hormone-injected beef from the US, in a blow to those pushing for UK food standards to be dropped in order to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with Trump.more