A huge 4,000 young people have signed up for apprenticeship schemes with supermarket giant ASDA, in just the last three months. This represents a 50% increase year on year in the number of applicants to the scheme and can be put down to the increase in young people looking for alternate routes into education and [...]

Argos has announced that it will look to recruit 12,000 staff in the run up to a busy Christmas period. The retailer says it will work in partnership with TUI, the parent company of Thomson and First Choice, and Job Centre Plus to fill the vacancies. Around 500 summer seasonal workers from the TUI travel [...]

Fashion lifestyle retailer, White Stuff, will increase its brand offering with a series of all new in-store initiatives. These events which will be localised to White Stuff stores in different areas are designed to offset the ‘doom and gloom’ of the high street by providing ‘retail-tainment’ within its stores. The White Stuff ‘Swap Shop’, a [...]

99p Stores, the British discount retailer chain, will expand into Ireland, next month, under the new title Euro 50 Stores. The all new Euro 50 Store will open in Dublin on 7 September and will sell everything in store for £1.50 or less. 99p Stores plans to double its number of shops in the next [...]

Topshop will launch a new game app, targeting students, in order to further develop its strategy for digital communications. Teaming up with mobile games expert SCVNGR to develop a bespoke app, the fashion retailer will challenge users to complete a series of tasks using their smartphones in exchange for a variety of rewards and exclusive [...]

Pawnbroker H&T group has predicted that its end of year results will be way above the top end of current market forecasts because the way in which it has benefitted from currently surging gold prices. These prices helped to boost the company’s pre tax profits for the six months of to the 30th of June. [...]

Victoria’s Secret, the American lingerie brand, has announced plans to open a flagship store in Mayfair, London. The store will occupy a 16,000 sq ft space in New Bond Street, set to open in 2012. Depending on the success of the store, further plans may implemented to open further stores around the UK. Martyn R [...]

A new report has found that men are becoming increasingy savvy shoppers compared to their female counterparts. Research conducted by Hitachi Capital Consumer Finance reports that 70 per cent of men feel that their are more shopping savvy now than they were five years ago, compared to 75 per cent of women. The report also [...]

Supermarket retail powerhouse Asda has launched its first groceries website for mobile to enable smart phone users to buy their food and other groceries using their phone. The site provides users with the full functionality of all of the features of the main asda.com site and allows customers to register, shop or amend existing orders [...]

Leading supermarket chain Asda has launced a brand new mobile grocery website which allows customers to place orders directly from their smartphones. The mobile website will have all of the same features as the main Asda.com site, meaning customers can do their weekly shopping through their smartphones, and can amend their orders up until 10pm [...]