Retail industry
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Government’s ‘lack of clarity’ over exit plan causes Dorset-based company to offer staff the chance to move to new German factory
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Consumer report shows people are unfazed by economic uncertainty of Brexit and Costa is most popular coffee shop
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Teenage years spent working at the upmarket lingerie store mean Eva Wiseman knows exactly what’s going on underneath Mike Ashley’s buy out
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Politicians, business experts and women’s groups condemn supermarket chairman’s comments about UK boardrooms
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John Allan made the comments at a discussion for aspiring non-executive directors, and they were ‘intended to be humorous, a bit hyperbolic’
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Unions and business leaders pour scorn on Mike Ashley’s reaction to criticism over corporate governance and treatment of workers
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Minister refutes legal opinion given to Council of Trade Unions that Fair Work decision could be used with other awards
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Chancellor said in budget that 90% of pubs in England would benefit from business rates discount, but experts say that is ‘at best disingenuous’
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Letters: Without fundamental and structural reform, a wholesale change in the behaviour of the largest sports retailer in the UK is very hard to imagine
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Supermarket chain says it has apologised to 140,000 workers who were mistakenly paid below the national minimum wage
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Gadget featured in Black Friday promotion but marked as out of stock online until next day, when it appeared at full price
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Supermarket scales back ambition as official statistics show average family throws away £700 of food each year
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Waterstones boss James Daunt has laid into the British retail institution for its ‘crushing consistency’. We ask the experts what it could do to improve
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Sharp fall in pound since EU referendum feeds into big rise in food prices with butter up 15%, fish up 8% and tea up more than 6%
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Administrator for Food Retailer Operations Limited fails to find buyer for nearly three dozen stores bought from Co-op in 2016
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As robots begin to replace people, some employers are realising the value of human interaction in customer service
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Partnership, which is owned by its staff, is expected to announce annual bonus of between 6% and 7% of salary, down from 10%
Jobs at risk as Jones Bootmaker teeters on brink of administration