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• How millennials have put a spoke in the wheels of Britain’s bicycle shops

  12-01-2019 16:00
  Youngsters say cycling is ‘too scary’, bike sales are static and stores are closing, as highlighted by James Corden last weekIt was a small, handwritten notice taped to the window of a shop but it spoke volumes. “For 2019 switch off your device, learn to talk to people again. Use your local shops. If its [sic] cheaper online save up and buy local, remember they are familys [sic] not faceless companies. More convenient online? Don’t be lazy go and get it local. Do more to
  
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• Morrisons cheapest supermarket for online shopping, says Which?

  12-01-2019 01:01
  Switching from Waitrose to Morrisons could save shoppers £170 a year, survey findsShoppers looking to tighten their belts after the Christmas blowout could save money by online shopping at Morrisons, according to a new Which? survey.The consumer group’s analysis found that on average, the Bradford-based supermarket offered the cheapest online groceries, based on a basket containing 77 popular branded products including Andrex toilet roll, Hovis bread and Cathedral City cheddar cheese
  
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