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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Asda fires opening salvo as UK supermarket price war looms

    Tesco and Sainsbury’s preparing a fightback, as grocer turns to price cuts to reverse decline in market share

    The image shows the exterior of an Asda supermarket in Bristol. People are seen entering and exiting the store, and there are displays of plants and flowers outside.
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    UK trade
    Supermarkets call for EU-UK deal on plant and animal exports

    Marks and Spencer and J Sainsbury intervene over veterinary agreement ahead of ‘reset’ summit next month

    Smithfield meat market
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    J Sainsbury PLC
    Sainsbury’s warns of flat profits as it gears up for price war

    Supermarket chain vows to defend ‘strong competitive position’ after Tesco and Asda signal price cuts

    A Sainsbury’s food delivery van
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK retail bosses raise fears of Chinese ‘dumping’ due to Trump tariffs

    Companies flag signs of goods being diverted from US to Europe via platforms such as Temu, Shein and Amazon

    A Currys store on Oxford Street in central London
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Shein
    Shein wins nod from UK regulators for London IPO

    FCA’s preliminary approval comes as the fast-fashion company faces challenges from Trump’s tariffs

    Gift bags with the Shein logo are stacked in front of a large, partially visible logo of the fashion brand. The bags are part of a promotional display on a Christmas bus tour in Liverpool, Britain.
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Tesco PLC
    Tesco warns of dip in profit as price competition heats up

    UK’s biggest supermarket chain adjusts target to give it ‘flexibility’ to respond to changing market conditions

    A shopper walks down an aisle in a Tesco supermarket in London, carrying a blue shopping basket.
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    JD Sports Fashion PLC
    JD Sports warns of volatile trading as tariffs hit US customers and suppliers

    UK retailer, which makes almost 40% of its sales in the US, expects profits to remain steady

    Shoes in a JD Sports shop
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Philip Green fails in attempt to challenge UK parliamentary privilege

    European court rules human rights convention not violated after peer linked former Arcadia chair to sexual misconduct allegations

    Philip Green at a football match in September 2024
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    LexAsda Group
    Asda’s comeback kid has returned, all-out UK food wars have not Premium content

    Allan Leighton’s ‘rollback’ pricing strategy is back, but rival supermarkets are well-placed to weather any storm

    A man holds an Asda basket while shopping
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Co-operative Group Ltd
    Co-op takes £80mn hit from shoplifting

    Wave of theft is adding to raft of cost pressures on retail industry

    A view of a logo of the Co-operative supermarket in Archway, London
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Marks & Spencer Group PLC
    M&S chair warns junk food TV ban could mean end of Christmas adverts

    Archie Norman says the government is regulating to ‘stop people talking about mince pies during the day’

    The bear is holding a mince pie up to his face
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Primark Stores Ltd
    Primark chief resigns after investigation into inappropriate behaviour

    Paul Marchant leaves retailer after probe into allegation about his behaviour in a social environment

    Associated British Foods said Paul Marchant had ‘acknowledged his error of judgment’
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Investments
    Stockpickers: DIY chains in need of repairs as they pin their hopes on tradespeople

    Kingfisher and Wickes hope to make gains after the collapse of Homebase

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Lex
    The UK high street is no match for WHSmith’s wanderlust Premium content

    It is really decades since the stores were a destination, particularly in provincial towns

    a WH Smith shop in Cambridge.
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    FT MagazineMiranda Green
    Ask Green: Where do you go when you’re lonely?

    Sainsbury’s cafés offered elderly people and young families a place to mingle over a hot cuppa. What to do now?

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    WH Smith PLC
    WHSmith name to vanish from UK high streets as it rebrands to TG Jones in £76mn deal

    Station and airport outlets will continue to trade under 233-year-old brand

    A WHSmith Plc store in Woking, UK
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    UK retail sales
    British retail sales outstrip forecasts to rise 1% in February

    Department stores and household goods led the increase, while supermarket sales volumes fell back

    A display of Tesco Finest range breads and bakery products is shown on shelves at a Tesco supermarket
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    News in-depth
    Why Denmark’s Søstrene Grene is betting on the UK High Street

    Family-owned homeware chain is targeting 100 British stores by 2027 as it launches flagship London outlet

  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Next PLC
    Next warns Labour’s worker rights reforms threaten ‘huge burden’ for employers

    UK fashion retailer says employment rights bill could cause ‘havoc’ for employers as group posts record £1bn profit

    Signs outside a Next store in London
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK inflation
    UK inflation slows more than expected to 2.8%

    Fall in clothing prices drives decline but services inflation holds at 5% in February

    Shoppers in Oxford Street, London
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    London - City Hall politics
    Sadiq Khan says residents must not ‘dictate’ Oxford Street decision

    London mayor willing to take the ‘flak’ from locals who want to block pedestrianisation

    CGI artist’s impression of pedestrianised Oxford Street in London, England
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    UK inflation
    VR headsets and pulled pork join UK inflation basket

    Office for National Statistics updates items used to measure price growth as spending habits evolve

    Montage shows a bowl of pulled pork, a woman wearing a VR headset and a mango against an inflation chart line
  • Saturday, 15 March, 2025
    Lex
    John Lewis sends staff a glum message about UK retail Premium content

    Retailer is prioritising investment after three of its past five financial years produced losses

    John Lewis’s flagship Oxford Street store: the retailer is still in turnaround mode
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Asda Group
    Asda warns of material profit hit after ‘disappointing’ annual sales

    Chief executive says supermarket needs significant investment to get it ‘firing on all cylinders’

    A car park at an Asda supermarket in London
  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
    John Lewis Partnership PLC
    John Lewis will not pay staff bonus despite rising profits

    Employee-owned retail group says it will prioritise investing in its turnaround

    People walking past the John Lewis department store on Oxford Street in London
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