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Under the settlement, Amazon is to pay a fine and refund approximately 35 million Prime shopping service customers. This will cost the company a total of $2.5 billion, Reuters reported today. The settlement applies to individuals who purchased the service between 2019 and 2025.more

Amazon is planning to close its 19 UK grocery stores less than five years after it launched the till-free sites in London. Amazon said five of the stores earmarked for closure would be converted in to Whole Foods stores, a fresh and whole food brand which Amazon owns.more

Bosses at the clothing and homeware chain Next are forecasting years of “anaemic” growth across the UK, with the retailer claiming that regulation, government spending and higher taxes will hurt jobs and productivity.more

On 1 January 2026, Jakub Jankowski, a Polish national, will become the president of Inter IKEA Group, the company has announced. Jankowski has been working at IKEA since 2001 and is currently the managing director of Ikea Industry.more

The UK government announced $205 billion in investments from American businesses, including a deal for the first British-built US Air Force aircraft in over 50 years. Blackstone Inc. will invest £90 billion, while other companies like Palantir Technologies and Prologis will create 7,600 jobs. more

Food and drink prices are rising at their fastest rate since January last year in a painful new supermarket squeeze on household budgets. Latest official figures show the inflation rate for food and non-alcoholic drinks rose to 5.1% in August, up from 4.9% in July. more

American tech giants Alphabet (Google) and Microsoft have announced investments totalling over $36 billion in the British artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure sector. The decisions coincided with the start of President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, giving the projects a clear political and strategic dimension.more

The BRC said 400 large stores were at risk of closure if they were included in the Government’s new business rates surtax on premises.more

Anti-drone systems, autonomous drones based on artificial intelligence, and modular transport trailers from Polish companies attracted the most interest at the national stand at the DSEI defence exhibition in London, according to the Polish Investment and Trade Agency.more

New Look is set to shut dozens of stores by the end of 2025. The latest will close doors for the final time on September 17 and is based in Scarborough. The North Yorkshire location in Brunswick Centre, Scarborough, will close for good in just a few weeks.more

Marks & Spencer is opening a secondhand clothing store on eBay to find new homes for “old favourites” as the household name taps into booming demand for preloved clothing.more

Three quarters of British businesses did nothing to support charities last year, according to an annual report. The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), which helps people or organisations give more effectively to charitable causes, said just 25% of UK firms donated to charities in the form of time, cash or goods last year.more

The price of gold has hit a record high as demand for the precious metal remains strong amid global economic uncertainty. The spot gold price hit $3,508.50 per ounce early on Tuesday, continuing its upwards trend which has seen it rise by nearly a third this year.more

Lidl is poised to create more than 500 new jobs across the UK as part of a significant £435 million investment in its logistics infrastructure, which includes the completion of a major expansion at its London site and the commencement of construction on a new warehouse in Leeds.more

According to a report by Cushman & Wakefield, 20 new hotel facilities offering 1,600 rooms were opened in Central and Eastern Europe in the first half of this year, most of them in Warsaw. The capital city gained 647 new rooms.more

Wetherspoons, the popular pub chain, has brought back a menu item following a complaint from a customer about its disappearance. Adam Gale, a Wetherspoon enthusiast, was disappointed to find that his local pub, the Rodboro Buildings in Guildford, Surrey, had removed tuna jacket potatoes from the menu.more

Poundland has avoided collapsing into administration after its turnaround plan was approved days before the chain was due to run out of money. The budget retailer had asked the judge to approve a deal, saying it would have run out of cash without it by 7 September.more

Topshop is officially back (kind of) – and this time it’s making its comeback in style. While the brand isn’t reclaiming its famous Oxford Circus flagship just yet (now home to IKEA), the British fashion favourite is opening a new concession inside Liberty, one of London’s most historic and best-loved department stores.more

Leaders in the hospitality industry have said that more than half of the UK's job losses since the last budget have come from their sector. Job losses in restaurants, bars, pubs and hotels total around 89,000 since last October, according to UKHospitality analysis of Office for National Statistics data.more

More than half of the 1,000 wealthy respondents also said they are more likely to consider leaving the UK if Rachel Reeves introduces a wealth tax.more

Prices in the UK rose by 3.8% in the year to July, driven mainly by a jump in the price of air fares coinciding with the school summer holidays. That means inflation is at its highest level since January 2024 and still far above the Bank of England's target of 2%.more

According to 32% of Polish companies, it is ‘impossible’ to do business in the country, according to the ‘Entrepreneurship Barometer 2025’. This is less than the average for the 16 countries surveyed, where 50% of the entrepreneurs surveyed shared this opinion. In Poland, geopolitical instability was considered the biggest challenge (68%).more

Fashion accessories chain Claire's is set to appoint administrators for its UK and Ireland business - putting around 2,150 jobs at risk. The move will raise fears over the future of 306 stores, with 278 of those in the UK and 28 in Ireland.more

Companies need three to five years to implement the proposed solutions regarding work in high temperatures, according to Robert Lisicki, an expert from the Lewiatan Confederation. The ministry wants the regulation on this matter to come into force at the beginning of 2027.more

Poundland is continuing to undergo huge structural changes which will see almost 50 stores close this month.more