Last-minute shoppers are set to bag a cut-price Christmas this year as retailers offer hefty discounts to boost spending before the looming government austerity drive. With just
The UK’s high street is facing a disastrous drop in sales this weekend as heavy snow keeps shoppers at home on one of the most important weekends of the year for the retail sector. Visits to large out of town shopping centres
Butterscotch the animatronic pony was flying off the e-shelves at retailer John Lewis yesterday, thought to be the UK’s busiest online shopping day of the year and dubbed Cyber Monday by industry experts. The life-sized Shetland pony, which stands more than
Tesco famously claims “every little helps” – now Britain’s biggest private-sector employer is among the first to offer the option of working “slivers of time” to its employees. A four-hour shift might
As retailers, count down the crucial trading weeks between now and Christmas, store chiefs, have sounded a cautious note on the outlook for consumer spending, but sought to quash fears of a
