If you have turned on the news this morning you will have seen the lead story across all media is today’s release of Mary Portas’ long-awaited review into the future of Britain’s High Street. You can read the Telegraph article here. The report says that vacancy rates in market towns have doubled in the last [...]

There’s a lot that small businesses can learn from the way big businesses approach Facebook, but the separation between your little company and international corporations isn’t as vast as it may sometimes appear. Click here for the full article.

Daily Telegraph – Uniforms, equipment, stationary all add up. Cashback websites can cut cost of back to school. Click here for the full article.

Companies are becoming more tuned into the potential of social networking. But can they make it pay? Click here for the full article.

New figures released on Wednesday reveal that online sales growth not only beat the depressed high street, but exceeded earlier forecasts by 1%. June was a bumper month, when £5.3bn was spent – 21% more than last year and with a large proportion spent on clothing. Click here for the full article.

Credit Card and Payment Transaction companies such as Visa, American Express and PayPal are betting big that over the next 4 years many of us will replace our traditional plastic credit cards with our smartphones. Through the use of `near field communication’ (NFC) chips, the way we pay for our shopping is about to undergo a dramatic [...]

Tough times are continuing for UK retailers with Thorntons set to shut up to 180 stores and Carpetright saying it may close as many as 50 outlets. Click here for the full article.

The latest retail sales figures give a much clearer picture of the spending squeeze facing the UK high street. Click here for the full article.  

Asda, Sainsbury’s and Tesco are among those retailers who have launched a new initiative to address the increased sexualisation of youngsters’ clothing. Click here for the full article.

The chattering classes’ weird hatred of Tesco reveals the elitism of modern-day consumer activism. Click here for the full article.