PayPoint and Snappy Shopper, the fast-growing home delivery app, have today announced a new partnership. Launching in July, the tie-up will see PayPoint One retailer partners given access to the Snappy Shopper platform and the ability to offer customers a convenient home delivery and click and collect option.
Dundee-based Snappy Shopper launched in 2017 and has grown rapidly in the...
Exploration needs daring, it requires first steps, bold decisions and courage. Lucy Walker, Daisy Voog and Beatrice Tomasson knew all this and more, each of them taking giant strides so that others could follow.
Lucy Walker was a prolific explorer who undertook nearly 100 expeditions, became the president of the Ladies’ Alpine Club and achieved legendary status as the first...
Tesco is launching a new rapid delivery service which will allow the supermarket chain to deliver groceries to customers within an hour.
The retail giant is initially trialling the Whoosh delivery service at one store and will then assess potential opportunities to expand the model.
It said the one-hour service will be available for customers in selected postcodes around its Wolverhampton...
The government should give communities more say over their local high streets’ future and enable councils to support them to do this.
This is according to a new report published by Centre for London today (Wednesday 26 May) which calls on government to rethink plans to make it easier to turn shops into homes, and review powers to bring vacant...
GUESS Europe, the Lifestyle-Tech Competence Center (LTCC), and Microsoft are proud to announce the launch of the GUESS Z Lab, an innovative concept conceived to collaborate and co-create with Gen Z. The first workshop took place yesterday at GUESS Europe HQ in Bioggio with 32 students from Ticino universities USI and SUPSI, with a second workshop with international students...
It seems that over the last year, we’ve become accustomed to waiting in long queues for basic necessities like essential shopping. At the start of the pandemic, we’d see a long queue zigzagging around Tesco car park and bolt back to our cars to try another shop. Now, queuing is just another annoying thing we have to put up...
Marks & Spencer is set to close more stores after plunging to a hefty loss for the past year after being hit hard by high street lockdowns.
The retailer said it is targeting 30 more closures in the “next phase” of its long-term transformation plan.
It has already closed or relocated 59 stores but said it is accelerating changes to its...
Violence and abuse against shopworkers surged last year and gathered pace further as the enforcement of coronavirus measures such as face masks and social distancing fuelled more incidents, according to new research.
The latest annual report into retail crime by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) revealed there were 455 incidents of violence and abuse every day in the year to...
Marks & Spencer has swung to a hefty loss for the past year following pandemic store closures as bosses said the business has moved to the “next phase” of its transformation plan.
The historic retailer tumbled to a £201.2 million pre-tax loss for the year to March 27 after its clothing and home business was particularly hammered by pandemic restrictions.
It...
Lidl has been forced to temporarily stop selling a version of one of its own brand gins after being sued by the makers of Hendrick’s gin who claim a trademark has been infringed.
The supermarket chain is defending the case and claims there are “clear and obvious differences” between the Hendrick’s trademark and the Hampstead gin product.
Hendrick’s gin is produced...
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