35 m. ago Poundland closing: is it closing down, next wave of UK store closures shutting, full list of locations near me

The budget chain is cutting back its store numbers and winding down online sales 🛒

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47 m. ago American visits Poundland for first time and is left stunned by 'unexpected' find

Cara, who runs the Magic Geekdom channel which boasts more than 77,000 subscribers, updates her followers on her travels around the UK and had never visited a Poundland store before

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58 m. ago Don’t put expensive items at front of stores because ‘people will nick them’, minister tells shopkeepers

The warning comes as chief of supermarket chain Iceland said shoplifting is getting worse because offenders appear to be able to act with ‘impunity’

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65 m. ago Texas Target shooter 'executed girl, 4, in car seat after murdering grandpa'

Ethan Nieneker, 32, has been charged with murdering four-year-old Astrid Chow along with her grandad Adam Chow and a Target store worker during a shooting spree in Austin, Texas

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1 hour ago The fashion editor's pick of the best 50 under £50 new season buys. We've sifted the High Street to find the cream of the crop

The collections are already beginning to land in high street stores and online, think transitional cardigans to throw over a cami and trendy new jean styles. This is our edit of the 50 best new high street picks.

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2 h. ago Cotswolds villagers' anger at US Vice President JD Vance for taking EVERY disabled parking spot at grocery store with huge Secret Service entourage

JD Vance sparked outrage when his huge security convoy took up all of the disabled parking spaces at a posh Cotswolds farm shop.

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2 h. ago Hobbycraft stores closing: arts and craft chain closing down 9 more UK shops – full list of closures near me

Crafters fear losing a creative lifeline as the retailer’s latest cuts spark concern 🎨

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3 h. ago River Island UK: fashion retailer to cut jobs and reduce shop rents, is it closing down, store closures

The retailer’s restructuring could drastically change the high street experience 🛍️

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3 h. ago Poundland to axe two popular services ahead of latest store closures

It makes up part of a restructuring plan to "simplify and refocus" the struggling company.

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3 h. ago Full list of London River Island stores closing as brand tries to stave off collapse

Full list of London River Island stores closing as brand tries to stave off collapse  My London

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4 h. ago Shoe Zone blames Budget tax hikes as chain halves profit forecast

Shoe Zone bosses said they saw weaker ‘discretionary spending’ and decreased footfall in stores.

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6 h. ago American visits Poundland for first time ever and is shocked by one part of store

An American YouTube star has been left stunned by her first ever visit to Poundland as one section of the budget store left her exclaiming "I was not expecting it"

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7 h. ago American visits Poundland for first time and is floored by 'unexpected' discovery

YouTuber The Magic Geekdom visited a Poundland store for the first time and she was blown away by the size of one department as she exclaimed she was "not expecting" it

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8 h. ago ‘It’s a robot war’: eastern Ukraine faces onslaught of Russian glide bombs, rockets and kamikaze drones

Putin has escalated strikes on Donetsk region and is likely to demand Ukraine hands it over in talks with TrumpNataliya Petrovna pointed to a crater on the edge of a football field. Around it lay bits of twisted metal. From nearby came loud banging as residents fixed plywood to their damaged five-storey apartment block. Many of its windows were broken. “The last few days have been terrible. We could hear the drones buzzing over us. The one that exploded near the school opposite was a Russian Shahed. Maybe some kind of new type,” she said.Petrovna lives in the eastern garrison city of Kramatorsk, in Donetsk province, about 15 miles from the frontline. The distance is just beyond the range of Russian first-person view (FPV) drones, at least for now. But it is easily reachable by other kinds of enemy objects. They include air-dropped glide bombs, Grad rockets and unmanned kamikaze drones – now cruising Ukraine’s skies in overwhelming numbers. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Target shooter 'coldly executed girl, 4, in back seat of car after making her watch as he murdered her grandpa'

Target worker Hector Machuca, 24, was killed along with Adam Chow, 65, and his four-year-old granddaughter as Ethan Blaine Nieneker, 32, rampaged through the store in Austin.

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14 h. ago South Park shows unaired scene of Kristi Noem 'shooting animals' in gory pet store scene

The writers of South Park have shared an unaired animation from their latest episode which has divided opinion as they showed a gory shooting spree with Kristi Noem at the centre

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15 h. ago Foot traffic at American Eagle stores is down 9% after controversial Sydney Sweeney ad: report

The week spanning from August 3 to August 9 took the biggest hit, according to the report, which said foot traffic dropped 9 percent compared to a year earlier.

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16 h. ago High street fashion giant with 170 UK shops closes 23 stores and sack staff

Fatface is closing all 23 of its US stores as it moves its North American operations to an online-only model. The move will result in the loss of 145 jobs, the company said.

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18 h. ago Elon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking online feud with Sam Altman

Billionaire’s post on acting against Apple for OpenAI’s No 1 position on App Store prompted reply from Sam AltmanBillionaire Elon Musk threatened legal action against Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in managing the rankings in its App Store. The posts elicited snide responses from Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and began a spat between the two former business partners on X.“Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action,” Musk said in a post on his social media platform X. In a post earlier that day, he wrote, “Hey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your ‘Must Have’ section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps? Are you playing politics?” Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Elon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking Sam Altman feud

Billionaire accuses Apple of ‘unequivocal antitrust violation’ over app rankings, prompting testy responseElon Musk has threatened legal action against Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in managing the rankings in its App Store. The posts elicited snide responses from Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and began a spat between the two former business partners on X.“Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action,” Musk said in a post on X. Continue reading...

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