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• If getting back to normal means mindless shopping, forget it | Suzanne Moore

  31-08-2020 17:27
  
  The cycle of consumption has been transformed by the pandemic and we have seen through the miserable con of ‘retail therapy’
  The past few months have been, for some, a time to re-evaluate their lives. They have not just worked at home, but worked on their homes and their bodies, tidying them up, getting into shape, sorting it all out. They have tips about how to structure our days as we Marie Kondo our souls.But the year has not exactly worked out like that for me. The enormous pile
  
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• Whole Foods managers told to talk up donations while enforcing BLM ban

  31-08-2020 12:20
  
  The grocery chain’s dress code bans political slogans, including for Black Lives Matter, but it wants to stress parent Amazon’s support for social justice groupsWhole Foods is advising managers to “talk about donations” the supermarket chain and its parent Amazon have given to various social justice groups while enforcing dress code policies that ban Black Lives Matter slogans on uniforms or face masks, according to internal documents obtained by the Guardian.The document
  
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• How Britain's high streets are recovering after lockdown – visual analysis

  31-08-2020 09:00
  
  Data reveals that three in 10 shops hadn’t reopened after coronavirus restrictions were lifted – with some areas lagging further behind than othersFollowing the reopening of the UK’s retail and hospitality sectors through June and July, there were hopes that the economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic could be lessened.
  But research from the Local Data Company shows that, as of July, 29% of English high street shops hadn’t reopened in the weeks after lockdown relaxati
  
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• Price of single-use plastic bags in England to double to 10p

  31-08-2020 07:00
  
  Exemption for smaller shops to end, and campaigners say ‘bags for life’ are next targetThe government is to double the charge for single-use plastic carrier bags in England from 5p to 10p and end the exemption for smaller shops from April 2021, as it steps up efforts to tackle plastic pollution.Since the introduction of the charge in October 2015, shoppers have used billions fewer thin-gauge plastic shopping bags. Related: Plastic superhighway: the awful truth of our hidden ocean was
  
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• All stores to charge 10p for plastic bags in push to end waste

  31-08-2020 01:01
  Government has vowed to eliminate avoidable plastic pollution by the end of 2042
  
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