The team at Independent Retail News and TalkingRetail.com will be taking a break for the festive season from 23 December and ...

The Post Office has announced a new initiative to centralise and simplify access to wellbeing resources for postmasters, ...

A shop theft epidemic, a punishing UK budget, energy costs on the march again. Quite understandably, there’s a lot of doom ...

Just as there is sometimes a danger that a country can talk itself into a recession, there’s a danger in the independent convenience sector at the moment that we could be talking ourselves into ...

For another year running, Quality Street has been named the food and drink brand that ‘Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without’, according to research conducted by OnePoll earlier this month. The UK ...

Vapers have been airing their views in Westminster as government calls for evidence as part of the Tobacco and Vapes bill. We ...

AF Blakemore, one of the UK’s largest privately owned family businesses and wholesaler for Spar stores in Wales, Central and ...

Independent retailers have weathered one of their most challenging years in 2024, with multiple headwinds affecting the sector, according to the British ...

The Spar Gilletts store, Old Laira Road, Plymouth has reopened following a fire and is bigger than before. The popular local store burnt down on Boxing ...