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Homebase clicks refresh on new website

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Homebase, the UK's home and garden experts, today reveals its transformed website. Created in partnership with THG plc’s end-to-end e-commerce division THG Ingenuity, the...

Greggs head office to adopt hybrid working model

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Greggs has become the latest business to say it will not expect staff to continue coming to its head office five days a week,...
ScS Store

ScS pledges £1.3m furlough repayment after record first half

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ScS vowed to return some of the furlough money it has claimed from the Government as the sofa seller swung to a profit in...

Pandemic brings spending one kilometre closer to home

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The coronavirus pandemic has typically pulled people’s spending around a kilometre closer to their homes, analysis by a bank of its customers’ behaviour has...

Apple reveals rise in UK app developer economy despite pandemic

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App developers on Apple’s iOS platform saw an increase in jobs and earnings in the UK last year – despite the pandemic, according to...
Deliveroo extension plans

Deliveroo set to raise £1bn in London stock market float

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Deliveroo has said it plans to raise £1 billion from its impending listing on the London Stock Exchange. The takeaway delivery business confirmed its fundraising...

Shoppers venture out as UK closes in on lockdown anniversary

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Footfall around the UK’s retail sites was up 7% last week, but is still heavily depressed compared to its pre-pandemic levels, new data has...

Second Amazon Fresh convenience store opens at Wembley Park

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Today, 16-March, Amazon is opening an Amazon Fresh store at Wembley Park, the second Amazon Fresh convenience store to offer Just Walk Out Shopping...
Greggs

Greggs sinks to first loss in 36 years

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Sausage roll purveyor Greggs has sunk to its first loss in 36 years as the Covid-19 pandemic hit one of the stalwarts of the...
Thorntons

Thorntons to shut all 61 shops with more than 600 jobs at risk

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Chocolate shop chain Thorntons is to shut all its 61 stores, putting 603 jobs at risk. The retailer said it has been hit hard...