High street – Page 38
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News
Café chains slammed over amount of sugar in festive hot drinks
Action on Sugar analysed more than 200 drinks
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Analysis & Features
Welcome to the jumble: how Borough Market manages 15 million visitors a year
On its 21st anniversary, the London market is embracing ‘new ways of thinking’
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News
BRC offers retailers advice on campaigning against car parking charges
The BRC today launched a Parking Toolkit, giving retailers advice on how to approach local authorities
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Comment & Opinion
It’s groundhog day with the same empty promises to fix business rates
Party leaders have promised to ‘breathe new life’ into the high street – but it’s the same old plans being repeated
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Tory plans to help high streets need to ‘go much further’ say BRC
The prime minister said today the party had an ambitious programme to “revitalise towns”
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BRC calls on next government to reform business rates & apprenticeship levy
Measures seen as essential for retail to continue supporting communities have been set out in the BRC’s ‘Vision for the UK’
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City snapshot: Takeaway.com increases Just Eat deal likelihood by way of offer
Dutch food delivery giant Takeaway.com has increased the “certainty” of its all-share combination with Just Eat by implementing the merger by way of an offer
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Business rates system ‘unacceptable’ Treasury Select Committee concludes
Today’s report was dismissive of previous attempts to soften the blow of rates on retailers
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Uber Elevate unveils new food delivery drone
Uber Elevate – the company’s aerial delivery and ride arm – said the drone had passed a “critical design review”
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Poundland to roll out new price points to all stores next month
All 800 Poundland stores across the country are to get the new multiple price points in time for Christmas
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Original Poundworld founders open ‘UK’s biggest pound shop’
The 12,000 sq ft Bradford store is the latest by new chain One Below, founded by father and son Chris Edwards Sr and Jr…
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News
Inflation set to hike retail business rates by £137m
The controversial business rates system is calculated every April based on the CPI of the previous September
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City snapshot: UK retail footfall continues to plunge
Retail footfall has dropped once more in September as consumer caution ahead of Brexit increased.
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News
Poundland adds ‘mini’ Pep&Co ranges to smaller stores
The mini shops in shops are being trialled from today in five stores
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Brexit uncertainty pushes retail sales to ‘new record low’ in September
UK retail sales slumped 1.3% in September, crumbling to a “new record low” for the month
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News
Pret extends coffee cup recycling scheme across the UK
Paper coffee cups from any high street shop will be accepted, to be turned into stationery and packaging…
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Analysis & Features
Is an ‘Owen’s Law’ needed to address allergens on menus?
Byron concedes current rules and requirements are ‘not enough’
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News
Government must ‘get a grip’ on depletion of free cashpoints, says Which?
The ACS said it would continue to urge the Payments Systems Regulator to intervene to ensure that free access to cash
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News
New high street fund meaningless against business rates, say retailers
Culture secretary Nicky Morgan announced £95m for 69 town centre high streets across England at the weekend
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Analysis & Features
How regulators are trying to rein in e-commerce giants
The number of retailers governed by the Grocery Code Adjudicator rose to 13 last week