UK consumers will spend £186m online on Christmas Day, a retail group forecasts, with the Boxing Day spend expected to be in excess of £365m. It has traditionally been a day when most people do little more wolfing down Christmas lunch before blobbing out on the sofa to watch the Queen’s speech or a TV [...]
Eighteen stores in the collapsed shoe shop chain Barratts Priceless will shut before Christmas, administrators said today. Five Barratts and 13 Priceless stores will close on Friday across the UK and Ireland, resulting in the loss of 127 jobs, with a further 60 staff members in the head office in Bradford also made redundant. Barratts [...]
Women embarking on the festive party season are being invited to stock up on free supplies of the morning-after pill. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has launched a service where women can request the pill online and speak to a nurse over the phone before it is delivered free of charge to their home. [...]
While many ski slopes across Europe are without snow, many parts of northern Britain welcomed the first major snow spell of the winter this weekend – and forecasters are issuing a UK snow warning for the rest of this week. After the second warmest November on record, weather warnings are in force across the Scottish [...]
Nov 23 (Reuters) – Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, is expanding its price-cutting campaign as grocers battle to lure cash-strapped shoppers in the run up to the key Christmas trading period. Tesco, which takes more than one in every ten pounds spent in British shops, said on Wednesday it was reducing the price of 1,000 staple [...]
Early pre-Christmas promotions gave a surprise lift to British retail sales in October, driving up volumes at their fastest pace since June, official data showed on Thursday. The Office for National Statistics said sales volumes including automotive fuel rose 0.6 percent last month after a 0.5 percent rise in September and confounding forecasts for a [...]
(Reuters) – Britons will spend less this Christmas than a year ago as falling disposable incomes temper the traditional urge to splash out, according to a report published on Thursday. Retail research group Decipher forecast retail spending would fall 0.6 percent year-on-year in December, or about 200 million pounds, with a 1.4 percent rise in [...]
Pawnbrokers will see the amount they loan increase by almost 80pc this month as cash-strapped Britons struggle to pay for their Christmas spending. According to the National Pawnbroking Association and borro.com, an online pawnbroker, the 79pc rise in loans in January is down to a number of factors, including the impending ‘Blue Monday’, the third [...]
Where is Santa Claus? A 55-year-old tradition continues this year as the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, launches its Santa Tracker at 2 a.m. EST on Christmas Eve, with help from Google Earth. NORAD tracks Old Saint Nick with four high-tech systems — radar, satellites, Santa Cams and fighter jets — not to [...]
Britons will spend 10 per cent less on Christmas this year in a bid to avoid a credit card hangover in the New Year, research has disclosed. They will each spend on average £490 on gifts and entertainment, down from £548 from a year ago, according to the survey of 2,000 adults by financial group [...]
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