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Retail industry

August 2024

  • An upturned car burns after it was set on fire in front of houses in Middlesbrough

    England riots: what help is available for affected homeowners and businesses?

  • Women walk down a high street during sunny weather

    Warm weather lifts UK retail sales in July but shoppers shun big purchases

  • Three young women eating ice cream cones on a street by the River Thames in London

    Observer business agenda
    Sun, sea and sales … Britain’s delayed summer arrives to thaw the retail chill

  • Woman browses the freezers in a branch of Iceland

    Warm Septembers lead Iceland to delay launch of autumn foods

  • Morrisons trials raising temperature of its freezers to save energy and money

  • London Stock Exchange denies lowering standards to win Shein IPO

July 2024

  • Man browses samples at CarpetRight retail store

    Most of Carpetright’s £345m debts are unlikely to be repaid

  • Shoppers on Oxford Street in London shelter from the July rain

    Poor weather and cost of living crisis drive UK summer spending down

  • Fresh strawberries

    Strawberry yields: wet then warm weather leads to bumper UK harvest

  • General views of Fonthill Road.

    The Guardian picture essay
    Eye-popping and under pressure: a unique London fashion street’s struggle

  • Ted Baker ‘plans to shut all its UK shops within weeks’

  • UK motorists still being overcharged for fuel, says watchdog

  • Shoplifting in England and Wales rises to new 20-year high

  • Why is Bella Hadid in the headlines? Because it distracts from the hell on Earth that is Gaza

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Carpetright rival buys 54 shops in rescue deal but more than 1,500 jobs will go

  • Pass notes
    The strange, secret life of Hello Kitty: if she isn’t a cat, then what is she?

  • Australia’s major food companies failing nature, report finds

  • Food giants are strangling Britain’s farmers and consumers. What’s the solution? Break them up

    Nicholas Shaxson
  • Hammerson sells £1.5bn stake in Bicester Village owner to private equity firm

  • John Lewis trials repair service in partnership with Timpson Group

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