Discount grocery chains are enjoying a bounce back as hard-up shoppers tighten their belts in the face of soaring inflation, tax hikes and spending cuts... more
Waitrose offers the best service for supermarket shoppers, while budget stores Lidl and Aldi outperform the "big four", according to a consumer poll... more
IT’S not often that City Spy is reduced to tears but Lord Bilimoria’s travails after putting his Cobra Beer business into a pre-pack administration (the brewer has been sold to Molson Coors, Bilimoria keeps 49.9% and most of the creditors who are owed £71 million are out of pocket), provoke great waves of sympathy
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The Austrian arm of discount supermarkets chain Aldi launched the company’s first petrol stations with astonishingly cheap fuel, triggering hopes that it may do the same in Britain ... more
Thanks to my grandad, a proud Thatcherite grocer from Amersham, I have always been something of an expert on price comparison. I'm also a food snob. I was taught always to buy the best you can afford. But how do you define that in a recession? ... more
Retail: J Sainsbury delivered a confident set of results, claiming to be blooming despite the credit crunch and taking custom from rivals such as Waitrose and Marks & Spencer... more
Society bible Tatler claims the pinstripe has had its day, a victim of the City’s demise and Aldi’s £25 version. Here two writers join the sartorial debate... more
Fears that Brits are heading for the discount stores were stoked as upmarket chain Waitrose posted its worst trading figures since the end of last winter... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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