All articles by Steve Farrell – Page 2
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NewsOut of town retailers damaging high streets, warns Lords committee
The Built Environment Committee has made a series of recommendations for boosting high streets, while giving its support to the government’s business rates reform plans
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NewsSupermarkets already rethinking investment plans as business rates bill gets second reading
The proposed changes could add hundreds of millions in tax on large supermarkets
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NewsLidl Christmas jumpers return, with 20% discount for loyalty scheme members
Lidl Plus members can get one of the discounter’s Christmas jumpers for £6.39, reduced from £7.99
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NewsAldi to donate 2,000 Christmas meals in low-income areas via Community Shop
The discounter is working with Company Shop’s social enterprise, which provides food in low-income communities
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NewsScottish Retail Consortium calls for business rates relief for shops amid ‘spiralling’ statutory costs
The letter to Scottish Finance Secretary Shona Robison says the increase in employers’ national insurance in the UK budget has added £190 million in annual costs to Scotland’s retailers
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NewsHome Bargains looking for third cohort of buyer apprentices
The programme leads to an industry-recognised qualification and the chance of a career with the retailer
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NewsB&M to open 700,000 sq ft import and distribution centre in Ellesmere Port
The retailer has signed a 10-year lease with real estate investor Cain International, with the site due to commence operation in 2025
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NewsAldi launches one-day pigs in blanket delivery service in London
Aldi is also giving away 30,000 pigs in blankets nationwide
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NewsAldi trials 12 more fruit & vegetable lines without packaging
Wrap last month called on the government to ban packaging on 21 uncut fresh produce items, including the lines on Aldi’s list
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NewsLidl boss urges government to ‘see sense’ over £7bn in costs heaped on retail
Ryan McDonnell spoke as Lidl announced its latest full-year results
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NewsHigher business rates aimed at ‘online giants’ will hit 1,900 superstores and hypermarkets
Across England and Wales, the proposed tax hike will hit more superstores and hypermarkets than it will large distribution warehouses, according to analysis by property consultancy Colliers
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NewsRetail will be hit with additional £7bn in costs from next year, industry chiefs warn Chancellor
Costs including rising employers’ national insurance will make job losses and price rises inevitable according to the letter orchestrated by the BRC, which calls for a meeting with Rachel Reeves to discuss measures to reduce the impact
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Comment & OpinionWhy physical retail will be punished by government’s business rates reforms
Rather than promising to level the playing field between online giants and the high street, Labour should have simply said it planned to make the biggest businesses pay for a tax cut for smaller ones
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NewsSupermarket Income REIT buys 113,000 sq ft Sainsbury’s for £50m
It joins the real estate investment trust’s omnichannel-focused portfolio of more than 70 supermarkets across the country, including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons sites
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NewsGrocery sales to be ‘subdued’ this Christmas
AlixPartners’ UK Christmas Grocery Forecast predicts in-store food sales will see muted year-on-year growth, and be down in real terms once inflation is factored in
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NewsTreasury minister James Murray defends government’s business rates plans
Increasing business rates from 2026 for the most valuable properties will enable a permanent reduction for the retail, hospitality and leisure properties that “make up the backbone of our high streets”, says James Murray
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NewsM&S rolling out trolley self-checkouts with conveyor belts to Food Halls
M&S is rolling out self-checkouts for a trolley shop, occupying as much space as a staffed checkout
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NewsM&S and Waitrose neck-and-neck in market share as Christmas approaches
Recent changes in M&S Food Halls include the rollout of self-checkouts designed for trolleys, occupying as much space as a staffed checkout and including a conveyor belt
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NewsSupermarket growth still being propped up by inflation, new data shows
Take-home value sales at the grocers increased by 2.3% in the four weeks to 3 November, while prices rose at exactly the same rate
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NewsAldi seeing early signs of high Christmas demand
Sales of its Mulled Wine and Flavour Mulled Wine are up 17% year on year, according to the discounter