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• No need to panic buy powerful vacuum cleaners, retailers tell worried shoppers

  29 Aug 2014: Sales up on models rated above 1,600 watts before they are banned by EU, though low power versions equally effective

• Retailers at their most optimistic for 12 years after August sales surge

  29 Aug 2014: CBI says sentiment at its strongest since May 2002, while latest market research shows consumers' mood also on the rise

• Food spending falls for first time as stores compete and real wages drop

  21 Aug 2014: Britain's food bill drops for first time as supermarkets wage price wars and consumers fail to feel effects of economic recovery

• Off the shelf: are people finally turning away from supermarkets?

  20 Aug 2014: Innovative small producers and retailers are using the internet to compete with mega-stores. Cutting out the middleman is making local food cheaper and more accessible in communities
  

• UK inflation fall to 1.6% lessens likelihood of interest rate rise

  19 Aug 2014:

  CPI fall surprises forecasters who expected smaller dip as clothes discounting and drops in alcohol prices and bank charges fuel decrease

• Low inflation will cap interest rate rise, says MPC member

  14 Aug 2014: David Miles says strong pick-up in investment, fading housing market boom and low wage growth means sharp rise is unlikely

• Food sales fall 3.5%, quarterly survey shows

  12 Aug 2014: Like-for-like food sales dropped against a much stronger performance a year ago, while furniture sales rose significantly

• Yes, there is a world more boring than Instagram: moving – and your cable bill

  8 Aug 2014: Emma Brockes: Can’t we agree there are some subjects that provoke such all-consuming rage that it’s impossible to leave them alone?

• Encouraging Brazil's emerging middle class to buy sustainably

  Guardian Professional, 6 Aug 2014: Brazil is exploring the power of behaviour change to persuade its burgeoning middle class to consume more responsibly

• Top tips for making your consumer boycott effective

  20 Jul 2014: Helping bring down apartheid is a high standard to match, but product boycotts can sway behaviour of a corporation or even national policies

• Interest rate fears put brakes on sales

  14 Jul 2014: The latest retail sales index showed that like-for-like sales fell 0.8% compared with a year ago, with total sales up 0.6%

• Consumer confidence remains shaky after budget, Westpac report shows

  9 Jul 2014: Consumer sentiment increases by 1.9%, but fails to bounce back from falls following spending cuts and tax hikes unveiled in budget

• Christmas comes early for UK's biggest retailers

  5 Jul 2014:

  It may only be July, but for retailers the festive season is in full swing as they vie for competitive advantage and tweets by launching their product ranges

• Contactless payments: new wristband connects directly to bank account

  5 Jul 2014:

  First wristband to act as contactless payment card that does not require pre-loading will come to Britain if trial in Spain is success

• Repairing nation's services will add £250bn to household bills, MPs warn

  1 Jul 2014: Rising energy and water costs will hit poor hardest as above-inflation increases help modernise Britain's ageing infrastructure

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