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Which are the best high street pharmacies?

By Adrian Holliday, May 21, 2013

Some high street pharmacies are giving out advice without asking the right questions - with potentially serious consequences for their customers’ health
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Empty shops reach new high of 11.9%

By Press Association, May 20, 2013

Shop vacancies have surged to a new high of 11.9% as retail failures including Comet and Jessops knock holes in shopping centres
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Doubling workers' wage would add 2p to t-shirt prices

By Adrian Holliday, May 10, 2013

Bangladeshi textile workers are paid just 12p for the six T-shirts they churn out every hour – or 2p each. But doubling this wage would add just 2p to the price of a T-shirt.
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Shop staff offering help 'annoying'

By Press Association, May 07, 2013

Most Britons find the "robotic" shopping culture of sales staff asking if they want help a turn-off, a consumer help website has found. Two-thirds of shoppers (68%) find offers of assistance from...
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Post Office launches franchise move

By Press Association, Apr 30, 2013

The Post Office has launched a search for retailers to run 70 Crown branches, a day after workers went on strike over the move
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Xtra-vision goes into receivership

By Press Association, Apr 30, 2013

Movie rental chain Xtra-vision has gone into receivership. Ernst & Young will take over the day-to-day running of the business with a view to selling what it said is 152 stores, the vast...
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Greggs cools annual profit hopes

By Press Association, Apr 29, 2013

Sandwich chain Greggs was counting the cost of the bleak winter as it warned that annual profits will be short of City hopes.
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Couple to hand over Amazon petition

By Press Association, Apr 24, 2013

A couple who run two high street bookshops are due to hand in a petition signed by more than 150,000 people to Downing Street, calling on internet retailer Amazon to pay their fair share of UK tax
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