Whether you like to have an occasional browse of its bougie shelves or get your groceries from there on the reg, there’s a reason Waitrose is Britain’s third favourite supermarket. It might be a bit more spenny, but where else will you find a sushi bar, Gail’s sourdough and cheese counters all under one roof? Now, the supermarket...
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Sephora is opening a store in the UK’s ‘best shopping centre’
The French-owned cosmetics store Sephora has announced its seventh UK opening in Kent’s Bluewater Shopping Centre. The global juggernaut’s stock of beauty products is pretty much unrivalled, but until recently UK shoppers have had limited options for in-person browsing. Now Sephora’s vast array of lotions and potions will be available at Bluewater, which was ranked...
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Here’s the full list of Boots store closures so far with 300 to shut by the end of the summer
Fans of sticking grubby hands in make-up testers, we’ve got sad news indeed. Your nearest Boots could soon be shutting down. The beloved health and beauty chain has been facing ongoing closures for well over a year now as it tries to save a whopping £618 million. In June 2023, it announced a strategy to close 650...
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B&M is opening 14 new UK stores: full list of confirmed locations
While some high street brands have been having a hard time of late (Wilko, Boots, we’re looking at you), others like Aldi, Asda and the Range have been positively thriving. All have announcing a tonne of new openings across the country. Now joining their ranks is beloved blue-and-orange bargain store B&M. Over the next three...
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Toys ‘R’ Us is opening 30 new UK shops
Once upon a time, Toys ‘R’ Us was a UK retail giant. With its huge warehouses of goodies and shelves stacked to the ceiling with toys, the American company was an essential part of growing up in this country. Well, up to the 2010s, anyway: in 2017, online competition forced Toys ‘R’ Us to close...
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Muji has gone into administration
Lovers of the immaculately tidy and sumptuously minimalist goods of Japanese retailer Muji, we have terrible news. Following in the wake of the Body Shop and Ted Baker so far this year, today (March 28), Muji has called in administrators in order to avoid going bust. Not all of Muji is going into administration. As...
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Wilko is opening 300 new UK stores – here’s the full list of confirmed locations so far
Fans of beloved homeware chain Wilko, it seems there’s plenty of life in the old dog yet. Having closed 400 stores last year, the brand’s new boss has announced plans to open hundreds of new outlets. And now we know where some of those stores are going to be – and when they’ll open, with...
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Beauty chain Sephora is opening two new UK stores outside London
It’s the cult beauty store that has tweens in a chokehold. And right now, if you want to shop in Sephora in the UK, you have to trek all the way to one of its two sites in London. But that won’t be the case for much longer – Sephora is heading up north. We...
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Here’s the full list of Body Shop stores that are closing – and the ones staying open
Body butter buffs, hemp oil hounds and cruelty-free devotees – you might want to sit down for this one. After underwhelming sales over January and Christmas, it’s now been confirmed that The Body Shop has called in administrators to save it from going completely bust. We know, we know – where are you going to get your...