A 38 year old supervisor has claimed in court that an allegation by Dunnes Stores that she had failed to pay for a bag of potatoes had left a blight on her character, and she has been awarded €10,000 in damages.more
The official Nike shirt and shorts are reportedly made at a factory inside a government-controlled zone where female garment workers are paid as little as £1.68 a day.more
A spokesman for the British government reported that the UK is "deeply disappointed" by the US decision to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from EU countries, assessing that the countries of the Community should be "permanently and completely" excluded from the new measures.more
Nearly 100 Carphone Warehouse stores are to close this year as the retailer's new boss, Alex Baldock, issued a profits warning and pledged to take action to adapt to a changing mobile phone market.more
For Starbucks, the scope of companywide anti-bias training on Tuesday was easy to measure. Roughly 175,000 employees at 8,000 locations pored over nearly 23,000 iPads, learning about the processing power of unconscious brains and the roots of unconscious bias.more
Marks & Spencer has fired the first salvo in what could quickly turn into a major price war across premium supermarket chains with long-term price cuts averaging 24 per cent across about 200 of its key product lines.more
Most retail outlets in Poland will be closed today. Poles, according to the law limiting trade on Sundays, will be able to buy, among others, in stores run by owners or at gas stations. Another shopping Sunday - May 27.more
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