Britons spend big at garden centres and DIY stores over Easter

Britons to spend an extra £290m at garden centres and DIY stores this Easter weekend By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 2 April 2021 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 2 April 2021 Britons will spend an extra £290m at garden centres and DIY stores this Easter weekend.  Forecasters at the Centre for … Read more

Tesco culls senior staff in shake-up at bigger stores

Tesco triggers major overhaul of way its stores will be run in future – with over 2,000 managerial jobs being reviewed By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 22:40 GMT, 27 March 2021 Britain’s biggest supermarket Tesco has triggered a major overhaul of the way its stores … Read more

Covid lockdown UK: ‘Shellshocked’ business leaders say closure of John Lewis stores is ‘devastating’

John Lewis to shut eight more stores  Store closures announced yesterday:  Aberdeen  Ashford (At Home) Basingstoke (At Home) Chester (At Home) Peterborough Sheffield  Tunbridge  Wells (At Home)  York  Store closures announced last July  Birmingham Croydon Watford Newbury Swindon Tamworth St Pancras  Heathrow MPs today called the permanent closure of eight John Lewis stores ‘devastating’ for … Read more

John Lewis shuts eight stores putting 1,465 jobs at risk

John Lewis to shut eight more stores  Store closures announced today:  Aberdeen  Ashford (At Home) Basingstoke (At Home) Chester (At Home) Peterborough Sheffield  Tunbridge  Wells (At Home)  York  Store closures announced last July  Birmingham Croydon Watford Newbury Swindon Tamworth St Pancras  Heathrow John Lewis has announced it will shut eight stores across the country, putting … Read more

Travel agency TUI to close 48 more high street stores after fines introduced for foreign holidays

Holiday firm TUI has announced it will be closing a further 48 retail stores across the UK. It comes as the government announced travellers will face £5,000 fine for going abroad on holiday without ‘reasonable excuse’.  The UK’s biggest tour operator said the travel industry and the high street ‘are both facing unprecedented pressure’ due … Read more

H&M bounces back as lockdowns ease and stores reopen

H&M bounces back as lockdowns ease: Sales rise as world’s second-biggest clothing retailer reopens hundreds more stores By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:57 GMT, 15 March 2021 | Updated: 21:57 GMT, 15 March 2021 SALES at H&M rose in the first half of March as coronavirus restrictions started to unwind across Europe. … Read more

Thorntons is to close all its 61 stores with 603 jobs hit in latest blow to the High Street 

Chocolate retailer Thorntons is to close all its 61 stores with 603 jobs hit in latest blow to the High Street Thorntons has been hit hard by pandemic, which kept many of its stores shut  Retail director Adam Goddard said changing high street ‘dynamics’ also to blame Thorntons gas seen online sales surge and will invest … Read more

John Lewis to shut department stores after suffering first loss

John Lewis to permanently shut department stores after suffering its first loss in its 157-year history By Tom Witherow For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 GMT, 11 March 2021 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 11 March 2021 John Lewis will permanently shut several more department stores after it fell to its first loss in its 157-year … Read more

John Lewis to close more stores and sinks to £517m loss

John Lewis Partnership slumps to £517m annual loss and confirms it WILL be closing more stores for good as the pandemic rocks retailers JLP said it was ‘in discussions’ with landlords over proposed store closures  By Jane Denton For Thisismoney Published: 08:15 GMT, 11 March 2021 | Updated: 08:18 GMT, 11 March 2021 The John … Read more