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• More than 1m UK small businesses ‘trapped in high-cost energy tariffs’

  16-04-2023 17:25
  
  Trade groups say many firms had to renew contracts at market peak in ‘biggest mis-selling scandal since PPI’More than 1m small businesses may be paying energy bills significantly above market rates after becoming trapped in long-term contracts fixed when prices reached a historic peak last year.Trade groups representing businesses from metalworkers to convenience stores have joined forces to warn of a “perilous situation”. Continue reading...
  
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• Supermarket sweep: how TikTok can help you save money on your food shopping

  16-04-2023 12:00
  
  The video-sharing app has become the best place to see the unfolding effect of the cost of living crisis, with weekly shops and ‘receipt reveals’ watched by millionsBefore Rachel Nixon goes to the supermarket, she sketches a quick shopping list in her head. In the garage she usually has a sack of potatoes, and meat, green veg and bread in the freezer. For the bits in between, she will head either to her local, membership-only brand discounter, the Company Shop in Barnsley, or to a ma
  
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