Some retailers that stayed open in pandemic net a £75m windfall

Some retailers that traded in pandemic net a £75m windfall from tax break aimed at worst hit firms – while others hand cash back to the Treasury By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 12:51 GMT, 7 March 2021 | Updated: 12:51 GMT, 7 March 2021 A handful of retailers that have remained … Read more

Debenhams deal will ‘thrust Boohoo to the top table of retailers’

Debenhams deal will thrust Boohoo to the top table of retailers, claims online fashion retailer’s billionaire co-founder By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 25 January 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 25 January 2021 Boohoo bosses have hailed its ‘transformational’ £55million deal to buy Debenhams as a stepping stone to it becoming … Read more

High Street retailers and luxury brands are BURNING or dumping EU products

High street retailers and luxury brands are burning or dumping products returned by EU customers due to the cost and trouble of bringing them back into the country – as online shoppers in Britain see prices rise by a third for items from Europe.  The Brexit trade deal has seen many customers rejecting goods that … Read more

High Street retailers and luxury brands are BURNING or dumping EU products

High street retailers and luxury brands are burning or dumping products returned by EU customers due to the cost and trouble of bringing them back into the country – as online shoppers in Britain see prices rise by a third for items from Europe.  The Brexit trade deal has seen many customers rejecting goods that … Read more

Post-Brexit shoppers are paying a third more for EU goods as red tape confuses Continental retailers

Post-Brexit shoppers are paying a third more for EU goods as red tape is confusing Continental retailers amid chaos at the ports. Tens of thousands of internet buyers are checking out without realising they will be asked to stump up extra VAT and customs duties when their parcel arrives. Delivery company DPD asked one shopper … Read more

Post-Brexit shoppers are paying a third more for EU goods as red tape confuses Continental retailers

Post-Brexit shoppers are paying a third more for EU goods as red tape is confusing Continental retailers amid chaos at the ports. Tens of thousands of internet buyers are checking out without realising they will be asked to stump up extra VAT and customs duties when their parcel arrives. Delivery company DPD asked one shopper … Read more

Coming to a supermarket near you? Retailers fear Northern Ireland-style food shortages

Ministers are drawing up plans to allow supermarket lorries to bypass queues at the Channel ports amid fears of food shortages in the UK. Certain vehicles will be given access to open lanes on the M20 in Kent during delays at the Port of Dover and the Eurotunnel terminal in order to cross the Channel, … Read more

Hundreds of thousands of  non-essential retailers face ANOTHER six weeks with their door closed

FULL LIST OF BUSINESSES ALLOWED TO STAY OPEN  Food shops, supermarkets, pharmacies, garden centres, building merchants and suppliers of building products and off-licences Market stalls selling essential retail  Businesses providing repair services may also stay open, where they primarily offer repair services Petrol stations, automatic (but not manual) car washes, vehicle repair and MOT services, … Read more

The retailers which disappeared from the UK High Street in 2020

High street retailers across the UK started 2020 facing tough conditions as customers increasingly looked towards online competitors, but no-one could have predicted the level of turmoil in store. The coronavirus pandemic led to temporary closures, social distancing and dwindling tourist numbers, which all weighed on UK towns and cities. A raft of retailers cut … Read more