Cash-strapped families could save up to a third off their weekly grocery bills if they replace fresh fish, meat and vegetables with frozen equivalents, research shows. The research, by Sheffield Hallam University, showed that a basket of frozen family groceries cost just £15.45, whereas the same items bought fresh would cost £23.25. By opting for [...]
Online retail sales increased by 14% last year to more than £50bn, with predictions that the growth will continue to hit high streets, according to a new report. Shopping comparison website Kelkoo predicted a similar increase this year, well above the expected 3.65% rise in total retail sales. Online shoppers spent an average of just [...]
Increasing numbers are cutting back on their food spending to help cover their rent or mortgage costs. Shelter said that the figure is a 44pc rise since 2008, as people have had to cut back on essentials to cope with the squeeze on their incomes, the charity said. Just over one in five people surveyed [...]
Energy company E.On is to cut its standard electricity prices by 6%, from Monday 27 February. It becomes the fifth of the big six energy companies to announce price cuts for either gas or electricity in the past few days. E.On said it too was responding to a recent dip in wholesale energy prices. It [...]
Energy companies British Gas and SSE both cut prices in the wake of EDF’s move on Wednesday – but consumer groups say the cuts still go “nowhere near” cancelling out earlier price hikes. The price cuts will bring relief to cash-strapped consumers, the energy giants say. British Gas has cut electricity bills for more than [...]
Britain’s “big six” energy suppliers received over four million complaints from customers over the past year, according to new research from Which?. The consumer champion found that 90% of grievances against power firms were not taken to the energy ombudsman and that tens of thousands of complaints remained unresolved after eight weeks. Which? estimates that [...]
The huge impact of soaring fuel prices was laid bare today as Midland firms revealed they are being crippled by rises while motorists are priced off the road. Figures today revealed petrol sales plummeted one billion litres in the first nine months of 2011 – and the AA warned of an even bigger drop in [...]
British workers are being forced to take second jobs to tackle the rising cost of heating their homes this winter. PeoplePerHour.com, Europe’s biggest marketplace for online companies, has reported a 54pc rise in Britons joining its site to find extra work in the past month. In the past six months, the website has seen an [...]
The dire state of many Britons’ personal finances has been underlined by new research that shows 3.5m people are considering taking out payday loans over the next six months. Concern over personal debt has reached the highest level since insolvency body R3 began making records, it said yesterday as it warned of “zombie debtors” who [...]
The cost of fuel will rise for four years, meaning it will soon cost motorists more than £100 to fill up their car, economists have warned. The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol is expected to hit £1.54 by 2015 on the back of soaring demand from booming Asian economies, according to the [...]
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