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• Post Office workers protest against franchising of branches

  01-12-2018 18:27
  Labour politicians join union leaders in 50 demonstrations around the countryProtestors opposed to the franchising of more than 70 Post Office branches to retailers have staged demonstrations in high streets across the UK in an attempt to save the “great British institution” from closures and sell-offs.Union officials queried the wisdom of closing crown post offices, those directly managed by Post Office Ltd, since the company is profit-making. Great support as always from our friend
  
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• After the retail apocalypse, what next for the high street?

  01-12-2018 17:00
  Out-of-town shopping centres and online giants decimated our town centres – what can local spaces still offer that the internet can’t?It’s not as if no one saw it coming. The decline of physical shopping, the business of getting yourself to an actual place and receiving actual goods from an actual person in return for actual cash, has been predicted – prematurely, as it turned out — since the end of the last century. It was not news in 2011 when David Cameron’
  
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• Laid-off Sears workers left with nothing – and they say wealthy bosses are to blame

  01-12-2018 12:00
  Thousands of workers have been fired and outrage has been directed at the stewardship of billionaire CEO Eddie LampertOndrea Patrick had worked at the Kmart in Rockford, Illinois for nine years. In September, Patrick’s store announced it would close as its owner, Sears Holdings, struggled with falling sales and mounting debts.A month later, Sears, once the world’s largest retailer and a part of America’s cultural fabric for more than 100 years, filed for bankruptcy – putt
  
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• UK shoppers face most expensive Christmas dinner in a decade

  01-12-2018 01:01
  Brexit and heatwave drive up prices of sprouts, turkey and Christmas puddingShoppers who scour the high street for the best possible deals will still face the most expensive Christmas dinner in a decade.The UK’s cheapest traditional festive spread will cost nearly 6% more than last year after the hot summer combined with uncertainty about Brexit to drive up the price of turkey, sprouts and Christmas pudding, according to the latest annual survey by Good Housekeeping magazine. Continue read
  
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