Boohoo buys Debenhams for £55million and will CLOSE stores for good 

Online fashion retailer Boohoo has confirmed it has bought the Debenhams brand for £55 million and will relaunch the department store as an online-only operation from next year. Bosses said the deal will not include saving Debenhams’ stores which will close for good as part of a structured winding down of the business.   Debenhams started … Read more

Topshop owner Arcadia closes 31 more stores with 714 jobs cut

Arcadia administrators are set to permanently shut another 31 of the fashion group’s stores by the end of January, with the loss of 714 more jobs. Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia retail empire collapsed into administration at the start of December. Arcadia, which once consisted of 444 UK retail chain stores including Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy … Read more

Shelves in Marks & Spencer stores in FRANCE are left empty

M&S stores in France have started running out of food as ‘convoluted’ Brexit rules were blamed for millions of pounds worth of meat exports from Britain being left to rot in Rotterdam and Calais.    Shelves in the upmarket supermarket’s food halls in Paris and Lille are bare as it becomes the latest company affected by Brexit border … Read more

Supermarket shelves hit by Brexit port chaos and staff shortages as stores run low on fruit and veg

We’re fresh out of fresh food! Supermarket shelves are hit by Brexit port chaos and staff shortages as stores start to run low on fruit and veg Gaps are appearing on fruit and vegetable shelves due to Brexit red tape at ports Lettuce, cauliflower packs and oranges are ‘out of stock’ in Tesco’s in some areas Supermarket … Read more

Supermarket shelves hit by Brexit port chaos and staff shortages as stores run low on fruit and veg

We’re fresh out of fresh food! Supermarket shelves are hit by Brexit port chaos and staff shortages as stores start to run low on fruit and veg Gaps are appearing on fruit and vegetable shelves due to Brexit red tape at ports Lettuce, cauliflower packs and oranges are ‘out of stock’ in Tesco’s in some areas Supermarket … Read more

Amazon will stop selling from ‘Pantry’ after buying Whole Foods and opening two ‘Fresh’ stores

Six years after launching Amazon Pantry, Amazon has discontinued the popular  service. Originally known as Prime Pantry, the option initially charged customers in the continental US a flat $5.99 shipping fee for a box that could be filled with up to 45 pounds of nonperishable groceries and household goods. It had begun as an alternative … Read more

Poundland will close 44 stores from tomorrow as it goes into ‘hibernation’ due to lockdown

From Saturday, January 10, the following Poundland branches will close:  St Marks Place, Newark, Nottinghamshire Isaac Newton Centre, Grantham, Lincolnshire Eden Walk, Kingston upon Thames, Greater London Four Seasons Shopping Centre, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire  Harvey Shopping Centre, Harlow, Essex  Britten Shopping Centre, Lowestoft, Suffolk Culver Street, Colchester, Essex  Sailmakers Shopping Centre, Ipswich, Suffolk  High Street, Ayr, … Read more

Model tries on size 12 trousers from UK stores

Shopper goes viral with a TikTok video exposing the VERY different fits of size 12 trousers from ASOS, Topshop, PrettyLittleThing and Boohoo Sophie Shakeshaft, 21, a model from Birmingham, took to TikTok to show how 8 pairs of size 12 trousers from Asos, Pretty Little Thing, Topshop and Boohoo  While some fit like a glove, … Read more

Select Samsung Galaxy Stores will stop offering paid content by January 26

In a move that has been met with a bit of confusion and some anticipation, it looks like Samsung will be removing paid content, including apps and in-app purchases, on its Galaxy Store. While this is happening in select countries only, it’s a pretty interesting move from the Korean OEM at a time when a … Read more