Sarah Butler, The Guardian

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Past articles by Sarah:

Ivy staff anger after restaurant chain cuts their share of service charge

Workers at Ivy Collection claim move offsets gains made from UK minimum wage rise → Read More

Currys forecasts fall in sales as UK shoppers delay big-item purchases

Prediction comes despite consumers using more credit to offset cost of living crisis → Read More

Leicester fined £880,000 for restricting online kit sales with JD Sports

Competition and Markets Authority says Leicester City and JD admitted they broke competition law → Read More

Morrisons to close Bradford packing plant putting 450 jobs at risk

Cost-cutting measure in home city comes as supermarket grapples with rising cost of servicing its £7.5bn debt → Read More

Food inflation starting to fall, says Sainsbury’s as sales rise

Like-for-like sales up 9.8% in quarter and supermarket says it has put more than £60m into cutting prices of basics → Read More

Unilever named ‘international sponsor of war’ by Ukraine

Protest at London HQ highlights taxes company pays in Russia and new law requiring it to contribute to war effort → Read More

Ping your heart out: how the UK fell back in love with the microwave

Sales up as people try to save money on energy bills and top chefs extol ease and virtues of microwave cooking → Read More

John Lewis defends plans to build 10,000 rental homes on its land

Group has submitted planning application for projects in west and south-east London in face of criticism → Read More

Bargain hunters bolster UK sales at B&M and H&M

Upbeat figures from discounter and fashion chain follow similar updates from Next and Primark → Read More

Boots to close 300 shops despite strong quarterly sales

Announcement will add to recent speculation that owner Walgreens is preparing to put firm up for sale again → Read More

Morrisons’ boss admits supermarket chains have hiked profits on petrol

David Potts was one of several chief executives of major grocers being quizzed by MPs over accusations of profiteering → Read More

Investigation reveals UK’s freshest and least fresh online groceries

Shoppers for consumer group Which? ordered 1,800 items to test the average shelf life at six retailers → Read More

UK’s best known retailers top list of firms fined £7m over pay breaches

WH Smith, Marks & Spencer and Argos among more than 200 firms that failed to pay workers legal minimum wage → Read More

Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group buys 5% Boohoo stake in online shopping spree

Sale adds to flurry of investments by owner of Sports Direct, including in Currys, AO and Asos → Read More

Rail regulator to investigate station food and drink prices

Office of Rail and Road to ‘scrutinise the market’ after customers complain of prices far higher than on high street → Read More

Tesco boss: food inflation has probably peaked but prices will stay high

Ken Murphy says higher costs of grocery imports because of Brexit are partly to blame for rising prices → Read More

Amazon under fire for ramping up sellers’ fees and advertising costs

Some delivery and storage costs for European vendors more than doubled in 2017-23, analysis shows → Read More

Timpson family takes £12.8m dividend after lockdown effect recedes

Demand resurfaces for dry cleaning, watch repairs and key cutting, though shoe repair remains out of favour → Read More

France’s food industry pledges to cut prices after government pressure

Finance minister reaches deal with 75 manufacturers after signs of falling prices for raw materials → Read More

Which? reports Tesco to CMA over pricing of Clubcard offers

Consumer group contends that supermarket’s failure to provide unit prices could amount to ‘misleading practice’ → Read More