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Marks & Spencer bans cheques
Marks & Spencer is the latest retailer to stop accepting cheques at its cash desks.
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Jessops chief nets £500,000 bonus
The chairman of beleaguered camera retailer Jessops collected a 500,000 bonus last year.
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Woolworths shakes up management
Variety store group Woolworths has made high-level management changes at its entertainment supply business EUK and retail division in an effort to drive the business forward this year.
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Sir Tom Hunter sells D2
Sir Tom Hunter has sold his clothing and footwear chain D2 in a multimillion-pound management buy-out in an effort to 'declutter' West Coast Capital's retail operation.
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Littlewoods moves on Empire Stores
Littlewoods has announced that it intends to buy Empire Stores' debtor book after it was reported that its owner Redcats was closing the business.
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Tesco hoax bomber gets six years
A man who tried to extort 1 million from grocery giant Tesco has been jailed for six years.
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Woolworths bins HD-DVDs
High street chain Woolworths is to become the first major retailer to stock only Blu-Ray high-definition DVDs and to drop HD-DVDs.
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Megamart to shake up value retailing in India
Indian brand-operator and manufacturer Arvind Mills has opened a discount fashion store in Chennai, which it wants to write a new chapter in Indian value retailing.
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Opinion
UK is design supermarket
Walk along Regent Street, take a stroll along a high street or visit almost any shopping mall and the one thing you will see everywhere is new shops.
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Jane Shepherdson buys Whistles
Jane Shepherdson has concluded a deal with Baugur to acquire Whistles from Mosaic, as first reported in Retail Week (November 30).
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Spending on clothing plummets
The average weekly household spend on clothing and footwear has halved in the past five decades, according to the Office for National Statistics’ annual report on Family Spending.
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Asda eyes £2m energy savings
Asda plans to save 2 million a year by buying all its energy for stores and depots directly from UK power generators.
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Tesco to take Express format to China
Tesco is planning to open its first Tesco Express store in China next month, in Shanghai, taking a slice of the convenience market in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
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Shoe Zone poised to swoop on Stead & Simpson
Footwear chain Shoe Zone is understood to have bought Stead & Simpson in a deal that is likely to be finalised today.
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Beales hit by tough trading
Department store chain Beales has reported an operating loss of 1.1 million in the 53 weeks to November 3, 2007.
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Hardy Amies revenues grow
Luxury fashion brand Hardy Amies has reported revenues for the year to December 31, 2007 of 1.65 million.
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Marks & Spencer in data breach over stolen laptop
Marks & Spencer has been found in breach of data protection rules after a laptop containing the information of 26,000 employees was stolen from a contractor’s home.
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Opinion
Life tastes better at Morrisons
Morrisons chief executive Marc Bolland will have toasted the grocer’s sparkling Christmas results this week.