Retail veterans back calls for business rates relief to be extended

Retail veterans back calls for business rates relief for the High Street to be extended past April 2021 By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 9 December 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 9 December 2020 A dozen retail industry veterans have urged High Street business rates relief to be extended past April. … Read more

Sam Faiers cuts a stylish figure as she enjoys some retail therapy with her daughter Rosie

Sam Faiers cuts a stylish figure in a black dress and grey coat as she enjoys some retail therapy with her daughter Rosie By Sean O’grady For Mailonline Published: 23:13 GMT, 7 December 2020 | Updated: 23:19 GMT, 7 December 2020 She recently revealed that she has changed her mind about sending daughter Rosie, three, to … Read more

Jobs lost across retail soar to 171,000 so far this year

Jobs lost across retail soar to 171,000 so far this year, passing last year’s total despite Government help schemes By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 5 December 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 5 December 2020 Jobs lost across the retail sector have soared to 171,000 so far this year, surging past … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Future shock for UK retail

ALEX BRUMMER: Covid has shown us that Britain’s creaky retail sector is in desperate need of repurposing By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 23:07 GMT, 1 December 2020 | Updated: 23:07 GMT, 1 December 2020 The pandemic has been as much an economic shock as a health emergency. It has concertinaed commercial change.  … Read more

Fortnum & Mason boss gives dire forecast that a ‘THIRD of British retail brands will disappear’

The Fortnum & Mason CEO today gloomily predicted a third of British retail brands will disappear by March after an 80% plunge in footfall due to lockdown and shoppers avoiding the West End.  Ewan Venters said the Government’s new strict tier system, which bans people meeting anyone outside their household indoors, would restrict the number … Read more

Britons went for an early Christmas shopping spree in October as retail sales rose another 1.2%

Shoppers indulged in a pre-lockdown and early-Christmas splurge in October as retail sales rose for a sixth consecutive month, beating analysts’ forecasts, new official figures show.   The amount of goods bought from UK retailers last month was 1.2 per cent higher than September while the amount spent rose 1.4 per cent, despite restrictions tightening again … Read more

Toy industry bosses urge Boris Johnson to add toy shops to the essential retail list

‘Don’t let Covid steal Christmas from children’: Toy industry bosses urge Boris Johnson to add toy shops to the essential retail list as festive season approaches Toy bosses have urged Prime Minister to add toys to the essential retail list  Called on Boris Johnson to ‘assist the UK toy industry’ and support families  Comes after retailers … Read more

Bachelorette Becky Miles enjoys retail therapy at store’s sale

Bachelorette on a budget! Becky Miles treats herself to a spot of retail therapy at a department store sale… after her heartbreaking split from Pete Mann By Kristy Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 14:52 GMT, 15 November 2020 | Updated: 14:52 GMT, 15 November 2020 Becky Miles announced that she had split from Pete … Read more

Famke Janssen puts on a leggy display in black minidress for retail therapy with a friend in NYC

Famke Janssen puts on a leggy display in black minidress as she steps out for some retail therapy with a friend in NYC By Glenn Garner For Dailymail.com Published: 01:36 GMT, 9 November 2020 | Updated: 01:39 GMT, 9 November 2020 Famke Janssen recently celebrated her 56th birthday, amid a nail-biting presidential election week. And … Read more

Author has books pulled by retail store after criticising New Zealand Maori minister’s face tattoo

White author has her books pulled by retail store after calling New Zealand Maori foreign minister’s face tattoo ‘ugly, uncivilised wokedom’ Olivia Pierson took to Twitter to comment on the appearance of Nanaia Mahuta She claimed that Prime Minister Jacinda Arden had ‘gone full wokelette’ Mighty Ape NZ has since confirmed that it had made … Read more