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• Lidl’s 19,000 UK staff to get pay rise in line with living wage

  19-11-2019 19:13
  
  Supermarket set to top Britain’s supermarket pay league with increase worth £10m in total
  Lidl is giving its UK staff a pay rise worth £10m with a higher hourly rate likely to propel it to the top of the supermarket pay league table.The retailer said 19,000 employees would get a pay rise in March when its hourly rate would move from £9 to £9.30 outside London and from £10.55 to £10.75 in the capital. The rises match the higher rate announced by the Livin
  
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• Home Depot/Kohl’s: the sharper tool

  19-11-2019 19:02
  Gap between retail winners and losers will widen as the holiday season begins
  
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• UK business rates: toll tale

  19-11-2019 17:05
  The biggest winners fromreductions would be large landlords
  
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• Kroger partners with German vertical farm start-up Infarm

  19-11-2019 16:48
  Tie-up will bring in-store produce farms to QFC supermarkets
  
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• TJ Maxx owner invests $225m in Russian retailer Familia

  19-11-2019 16:18
  Acquisition of 25% stake is first major western M&A deal in Russia since 2014 sanctions
  
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• US retail stocks hit after Kohl’s and Home Depot cut forecasts

  19-11-2019 15:31
  Reduction in guidance raises concerns for stores as they head into holiday shopping season
  
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• Shares in Kohl’s and Home Depot hit by weaker outlook

  19-11-2019 15:31
  Guidance from major US retailers raises concerns heading into holiday season
  
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• A therapeutic tuning fork: why is Marie Kondo selling the world’s most unnecessary item?

  19-11-2019 14:42
  
  The queen of tidying told us to get rid of everything in our homes that failed to spark joy. Now she’s opened an online shop so we can replace it all
  Name: Tuning fork.Age: Invented just in time for Christmas. Continue reading...
  
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• AO World ditches Dutch arm to focus on UK and Germany

  19-11-2019 14:27
  Shares jump 13% as online electrical goods retailer pulls out of Netherlands
  
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• How the Ikea Christmas ad brought grime to the masses | Jeffrey Boakye

  19-11-2019 08:00
  
  It shouldn’t work, but it does, because grime MC D Double E breaks through the usual seasonal superficialityEverything you need to know about why Ikea’s Christmas ad is a big deal can be summarised in one word: grime. The Swedish furniture monolith has drawn on the genre that has given us Stormzy at Glastonbury, two Mercury music prize winners, #Alexfromglasto and a 21st-century cultural earthquake that continues to reverberate through the mainstream.The central conceit of the ad is
  
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• Marie Kondo sparks consternation with online homeware store

  19-11-2019 03:44
  
  Decluttering guru looks to clean up but says ‘if the bowl you’re using currently sparks joy for you, I don’t encourage replacing it’The Japanese tidying guru Marie Kondo appears to have adopted a new approach to decluttering: rid your home of things that don’t “spark joy”, then replace them with items from her new online store.Kondo – who rose to international fame for encouraging people to declutter their homes and minds using the KonMari method &
  
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