How to get the best deals on Black Friday November 21, 2016 This Friday is no normal Friday. It is Black Friday, and if you want to make the most of the biggest shopping day of the year, you need to be prepared. Read more: Black Friday spending will almost hit £2bn this year There are already plenty of deals available online, but here are our top [...]
Flip-flopgate: Has Havaianas just pulled off the best Black Friday marketing ploy? November 21, 2016 It's happening again. Everyone remembers The Dress – was it blue and black? Was it white and gold? (It was definitely white and gold.) Now it's flip-flops. Debate is raging online over the colour of these sandals: What colour are these flip-flops? Some think they're white and gold. Others think they're black and blue. Sounds familiar, doesn't [...]
Morrisons has cut petrol prices below £1 a litre for the first time since the Brexit vote – sort of November 21, 2016 It seems supermarkets are already getting carried away by Black Friday: today Morrisons said it was cutting petrol prices to below £1 a litre for the first time since the Brexit vote. Well, sort of. The supermarket said it's reducing the price of unleaded to 99.9p at 333 forecourts from today. But there is a [...]
Two thirds of chickens sold in supermarkets are infected with E.coli November 21, 2016 Scientists have found that two thirds of chickens in UK supermarkets are contaminated with E.coli. The study from Public Health England and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) claimed that 78 per cent of chickens sold in high streets in England contained an antibiotic-resistant E.coli strain. This figure dropped to 53 per [...]
Bonmarche blames BHS and the weather for sales hit November 21, 2016 Womenswear retailer Bonmarche has blamed the weather and BHS for its declining sales. The company said this morning that like-for-like sales were down 8.6 per cent, which could be in part attributed to the clearance of BHS' stock ahead of the store closing down. Bonmarche also said the weather "was a major variable" in its poor performance [...]
Super-premium Brockmans Gin toasts record sales for the first half of 2016 as it basks in UK gin renaissance and expands overseas November 21, 2016 Brockmans Gin has served up record sales for the first-half of 2016 as super-premium gin continues to grow in popularity both in the UK and abroad. Total revenue grew 116 per cent in the first-half of 2016 to £2.6m as the company capitalised on the growing gin renaissance in the UK where sales are expected to [...]
UK drug strategy has failed and the Treasury is missing out on as much as £1.05bn of the UK’s growing cannabis market November 21, 2016 The world is changing its mind on drug legalisation policies, and the UK will be left behind unless politicians take action. Legalisation and regulation of the UK's £6.8bn per year cannabis market could send as much as £1.05bn to the Treasury, a new report said. Ditching Britain's failed strategy and following the pragmatic approach of major western democracies like Germany, Canada and [...]
More than half of UK shoppers don’t know their consumer rights differ when returning goods bought in store versus online November 21, 2016 After you've finished your holiday shopping and the shine wears off the cheeky new outfit you bought yourself, will you be able to return it for a refund? More than half of British shoppers don't know that their consumer rights differ when returning goods bought online versus in store, a new report shows. When it comes to returning non-faulty [...]
The average British consumer will spend almost half their monthly salary on Christmas, and many won’t pay off debts until March November 21, 2016 By March, Christmas is the last thing on your mind. But one in five British consumers are still paying off Christmas gifts three months or more down the line. The average shopper is set to spend almost half their monthly pay on Christmas, and 6 per cent will spend in excess of a month's salary, a new study [...]
BHS’ bosses’ cash comes under pressure from pensions lifeboat November 20, 2016 The pensions lifeboat is pushing for legal action to claw back funds from former BHS directors. The once high street staple fell into administration back in April, and was running a deficit worth £571m for its 20,000 member-strong pension schemes at the time. The department store chain's collapse, which ultimately resulted in the closure of over [...]