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Sustainable shopping has been on the rise and some businesses are changing the way they work to help the environment and appease increasingly self-aware customers. This has ranged from reducing or completely cutting plastic usage, to donating profits to ethical organisations or charities. Meanwhile, more and more companies have or are attempting to achieve B … Read more
Small investors are nursing their wounds after the collapse of the ‘meme stock’ bubble caught them on the wrong side of the trade, with high-flying GameStop shares plunging 72 percent from Monday morning to Tuesday night. GameStop shares rallied 20 percent at the opening bell on Wednesday as the company announced a new chief technology … Read more
Online retailing, gaming and eCommerce activity generally has surged during the lockdowns, which has highlighted the rapid progress at mobile payments specialist Bango. The AIM-listed company recently announced its first notable trading profit as yearly sales jumped three-fold to £12million. For some years Bango had been steadily laying the groundwork of its payments platform but … Read more
Small shopkeepers have condemned lockdown unfairness which means they must close while major chains have customers queuing out on to the street. Household names are taking advantage of loopholes to continue trading, while at the same time benefitting from the cancellation of business rates worth billions of pounds. It comes after official data revealed retail … Read more
Tory grandee Norman Tebbit, Mrs Thatcher’s loyal attack dog, has been called many things in his time, but I’m not sure even his enemies would reach for the word ‘cowardly’. He does, though. Lord Tebbit, who will be 90 in March (‘if I make it’), is describing his wife’s descent into dementia, and assessing how he … Read more
The staggering rally of shares in beleaguered video game retailer GameStop is minting new millionaires, and costing hedge funds billions of dollars – at least on paper. GameStop shares rose another 70 percent on Friday in a staggering rally driven by small investors on the online forum Reddit that has seen the stock surge 1,800 … Read more
Arcadia’s high street empire looks likely to end up in the hands of two of the AIM’s runaway retail success stories. Boohoo has confirmed it is in exclusive discussions with administrators Deloitte to buy the Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton brands, days after it emerged that rival ASOS was the frontrunner to rescue Topshop, Topman, … Read more
Not On The High Street founder Holly Tucker has accused Asda and New Look of ‘stealing’ a t-shirt design from a small British family-run brand. The entrepreneur, 43, from London, took to their Instagram page this week to criticise the retailers as she shared pictures of a t-shirt for sale on their websites, alongside a … Read more
Police launch appeal after door from a small PLANE is found on the M4 in Wiltshire Wiltshire Police launched appeal after the door of an aircraft found on motorway The metal door was found in lane one on the M4 near Swindon on January 9 Force shared pictures of ‘unusual debris’ and called on owner to … Read more
The clapboard walls have been painted white and the door is a bright, lacquered red. Sitting on the edge of town, surrounded by virgin snow, Murdock, Minnesota’s Old Lutheran Church is candy-box perfect. But it is not at all as it seems in this small Midwestern town, because the church in its midst is a … Read more