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UK Retail Sales Fall For Second Month In June: CBI

British retail sales fell again in June as household finances were squeezed by the rising cost of living but stores expected sales volumes to stabilise nex...

Morrisons Sales Up 1% As Price Campaign Shows Promise

Morrisons retained its financial guidance for the year as it reported a 1% increase in quarterly underlying sales, in a sign that its plan to become more p...

Carrefour Cutting Prices On 500 Products In France

Food retailer Carrefour started cutting prices this week by around 10% on average on some 500 products to help French shoppers cope with high cost of livin...

M&S Lowers Or Freezes Price Of More Than 200 Food Products

Britain's Marks & Spencer on Monday became the latest supermarket to cut food prices, adding to signs that a surge in inflation is set to abate.

Tesco Reported To Competition Watchdog Over Pricing Concerns

Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, has been reported to the competition regulator by consumer group Which? over its failure to provide detailed pricing inf...

Sainsbury’s Rebrands Value Brands As 'Stamford Street'

Sainsbury’s has announced it has moved all its entry price point private-label products to a new brand, Stamford Street.

UK Grocery Inflation Edges Lower To 17.2% In May - Kantar

British grocery inflation eased slightly for the second month in a row in May but remained close to record highs, industry data showed on Tuesday, providin...

Plant-Based Products 'Struggle For Growth' Due To Cost: NIQ

A new report from market researcher NIQ has found that despite 4.1 million (14.3%) of UK households consuming a vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian or flexitari...