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• Bumpy ride for billionaire brothers who banked on Asda’s success

  26-08-2023 17:00
  
  Blackburn’s Moshin and Zuber Issa took over the supermarket promising investment to make it the UK’s second-largest chain, but Covid and cost of living crisis meant it did not go to to planWhen the billionaire Issa brothers parked up outside Asda’s Leeds headquarters in February 2021, they had just secured the keys to a business that seemed to present an incredible opportunity: a 600-stores-plus cash machine.The brothers from Blackburn were set on leapfrogging slightly bigger r
  
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• John Lewis and Waitrose join drive to make reusable period products cheaper

  26-08-2023 16:24
  
  Price of more than 30 different kinds of period underwear to be lowered at stores from next week John Lewis and Waitrose are cutting the price of their period underwear by a fifth, becoming the latest retailer to join the effort to make reusable period products more affordable.The price of more than 30 different kinds of period underwear will be reduced at stores from next week as they join the Say Pants to the Tax campaign, which was launched by Marks & Spencer and the Wuka this month. Cont
  
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