How does Amazon’s CEO, Andy Jassy, justify the decision to bring employees back to the office full-time?
Compare Amazon’s in-office work policy with that of other tech companies like Google. What does this reveal about the differences in business strategies among tech firms?
How might Amazon’s return-to-office mandate impact its supply and demand for office space in its US buildings?
What does Amazon’s “bureaucracy mailbox” initiative aim to achieve, and how does it reflect economic concepts like efficiency?
How does Amazon’s reduction in middle management reflect the economic principle of diminishing returns?
What does Amazon’s plan to reduce middle management and increase the ratio of “individual contributors” suggest about the company’s goals for productivity and decision-making processes? How might reducing the number of managers affect how quickly decisions are made and impact productivity?
According to a 2013 study by Stanford University, what were some of the effects of working from home on productivity and career advancement?
What advice is given for those considering working from home for the first time?
The Pros: list and describe in your own words what you think are the top arguments for working from home
The Cons: list and describe in your own words what you think are the best arguments against working from home
Conclusion
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Your opinion: Given the varied approaches to in-office and remote work among tech companies, what might the future of work look like, and how should companies balance the need for flexibility with the benefits of in-person collaboration?
One savvy shopper spotted the bargain buys and posted them on the B&M Bargains, Extreme Money Saving Deals and More Facebook group, writing: “Found these Body mists in a Morrisons local £2 they smell amazing smell lasted for hours I have one happy teenager.”
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The user also replied to a comment saying: “It’s a body mist Sol de Janeiro dupe sorry I am not a professional social media Guru.
“I was asking the lady in the shop she said they have gone into all Morrisons locals.”
Another shopper tagged their pal and commented: “Please go Morrisons I need them all.”
A second wrote: “Do they smell the same as the real ones, as we pay £40 for one bottle of real ones.”
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Posters replied stating “they smell basically the same” and “these smell so much stronger and like the real fragrances”.
A third posted: “They are gorgeous!!! I bought one just as a little handbag spray and the smell lasts days, my partner loves it!”
While a fourth tagged their friend and said: “If you see these let me know, please. Good stocking fillers.”
The Morrisons deal will likely not be around for long as the sign above the bargain bin states “when it’s gone it’s gone”.
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It’s always best to phone ahead to your local shop to check what they have available to avoid disappointment.
You can find your nearest Morrisons store using the locator tool on the website.
It always pays to compare prices so you know you’re getting the best deal.
There are dozens of similar-looking scents listed online at the moment.
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One savvy shopper spotted a dupe on sale at Boots and posted it on the Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK Facebook group, writing: “The boots spray smells even better and lasts longer than the original Sol de Janeiro and at a fraction of the cost.”
The pistachio, almond and salted caramel scent is an imitation of Sol de Janeiro’s flagship Cheirosa 62 Perfume Mist.
The original branded product costs £24 for 90ml but is currently on offer at Boots for £19.20.
Earlier in the year Primark released brand new dupes, with a selection of different scents costing just £3.50 for 100ml.
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The pink version is Primark’s Hawaii Paradise Body Mist.
Best Sol De Janeiro Dupes
Here’s everywhere you can nab dupes of Sol De Janeiro products, from the iconic mists all the way to body butters…
PS… Body Mists £3.50 Scents: Hawaii Paradise, Capri Breeze and Maldives Sunset
PS… Post-Tan Body Butter £3 Scents: Blood Orange
Poundland
Body Stories Body Mist £2 Scents: Brazilian Bliss
Body Stories Body Butter £2.50 Scents: Brazilian Bliss
It’s always a good idea to shop around to make sure you can find the best deals.
There are plenty of comparison websites out there that’ll check prices for you – so don’t be left paying more than you have to.
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Most of them work by comparing the prices across hundreds of retailers.
Google Shopping is a tool that lets users search for and compare prices for products across the web. Simply type in keywords, or a product number, to bring up search results.
Price Spy logs the history of how much something costs from over 3,000 different retailers, including Argos, Amazon, eBay and supermarkets.
Once you select an individual product you can quickly compare which stores have the best price and which have it in stock.
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Idealo is another website that lets you compare prices between retailers.
All shoppers need to do is search for the item they need and the website will rank them from the cheapest to the most expensive one.
CamelCamelCamel is another option – but only for goods that are sold on Amazon.
To use it, type in the URL of the product you want to check the price of.
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How to bag a bargain
SUN Savers Editor Lana Clements explains how to find a cut-price item and bag a bargain…
Sign up to loyalty schemes of the brands that you regularly shop with.
Big names regularly offer discounts or special lower prices for members, among other perks.
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Sales are when you can pick up a real steal.
Retailers usually have periodic promotions that tie into payday at the end of the month or Bank Holiday weekends, so keep a lookout and shop when these deals are on.
Sign up to mailing lists and you’ll also be first to know of special offers. It can be worth following retailers on social media too.
When buying online, always do a search for money off codes or vouchers that you can use vouchercodes.co.uk and myvouchercodes.co.uk are just two sites that round up promotions by retailer.
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Scanner apps are useful to have on your phone. Trolley.co.uk app has a scanner that you can use to compare prices on branded items when out shopping.
Bargain hunters can also use B&M’s scanner in the app to find discounts in-store before staff have marked them out.
And always check if you can get cashback before paying which in effect means you’ll get some of your money back or a discount on the item.
Do you have a money problem that needs sorting? Get in touch by emailing money-sm@news.co.uk.
It is a testament to how long, varied and celebrated a career Dame Maggie Smith enjoyed that it would be insulting to point to any one defining role. In fact, it is reductive even to consider one particular medium.
For film-goers, there’s her Oscar-winning performance in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). For those who grew up in the 2000s on Harry Potter, Smith, who has died at the age of 89, will always be Professor Minerva McGonagall.
On the small screen, she glowered through Downton Abbey as the indomitable grandmother to a thousand memes, Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham.
But many will argue that it is in the theatre that this most versatile of performers showed off a complete mastery that had critics and audiences enthralled, playwrights crafting their work specifically for her and male counterparts cowering in the wings.
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This versatility led to her winning a small mountain of acting awards, including two Oscars, four Emmys and a Tony — the so-called Triple Crown — as well as Golden Globes and Baftas.
Born in Ilford, Essex in 1934, she was brought up in Oxford where, at the age of 17, she made her stage debut playing Viola in Twelfth Night and her professional debut on Broadway four years later, in 1956.
As Smith herself succinctly put it: “One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one’s still acting.” Showing a particular talent for comedy, she appeared in revues and farces, before catching the eye of Sir Laurence Olivier, who recruited her for the National Theatre, where she quickly established herself as his peer, if not his rival.
Her range saw her triumph in plays by Noël Coward while also winning plaudits for the title role in a production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler directed by Ingmar Bergman. When her Desdemona transferred to the big screen, she received the first of several Academy Award nominations.
Following early screen appearances in The Pumpkin Eater (1964) and The Honey Pot (1967), in 1970 she won her first Oscar, Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and another in 1979 for Best Supporting Actress in California Suite.
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Throughout the next decades, she would collaborate with Merchant Ivory, Alan Bennett, Steven Spielberg and Agnieszka Holland on film, as well as appearing in plays by Oscar Wilde, William Congreve and Edward Albee. Peter Shaffer wrote 1987’s Lettice and Lovage specifically for her.
She was married twice, for eight years to actor Sir Robert Stephens — with whom she had two sons, actors Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens — and to playwright Beverley Cross from 1975 until his death in 1998.
In her later years, she never lost touch with her comic roots, appearing in crowd-pleasers such as Sister Act (1992) with Whoopi Goldberg and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), alongside her close contemporary Dame Judi Dench.
After an 11-year break from the stage, she returned in 2019 in Sir Christopher Hampton’s one-woman show A German Life, in which she played a woman looking back on her youth, when she worked as Joseph Goebbels’ secretary.
Offstage, Smith made for an entertaining raconteuse on talk shows, whether reciting Sir John Betjeman for Sir Michael Parkinson with her frequent stage companion Kenneth Williams, or disparaging her latest manifestation of fame to Graham Norton. When the latter asked if she had ever watched Downton Abbey, she pursed her lips and drolly replied: “I’ve got the box set.”
She could have a spikiness and wit that Dowager Violet would have enjoyed, once saying of Glenn Close: “That’s not an actress, that’s an address.” Her irreverence was proof that no matter how many titles she received — she was made a Dame in 1990 and a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, only the third female actor to receive such an honour, in 2014 — her character and freedom was as immune to praise and respectability as it was to criticism.
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Tributes have come in from King Charles III and British political leaders from all parties, as well as co-stars and directors.
Sir Kenneth Branagh called her “unquestionably one of the greats”, going on to say: “It was an honour to work with Maggie Smith. A privilege to watch her. In tragedy, she made you catch your breath while she broke your heart. In comedy, she could get a laugh from a look or a line at any time she wished. She was sharp and prepared at work, exhilarating company away from it.”
AN EXACT word on your 50p coin could make it worth 700 times more as the rare coin sparks a bidding war on eBay.
The unique coin is said to be a must-have for collectors, selling for a whopping hundreds on the online auction site.
The rare 50p coin was issued in 2005 and features Samuel Johson’s Dictionary which saw its value skyrocket.
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The wording on the back of the coin makes it a unique piece of British decimal coinage.
What adds to this coin’s value is its rarity, making it a sought-after item that collectors are eager to obtain.
The auction on eBay revealed that four bidders attempted to snap up the rare coin which eventually sold for a staggering £350.
The seller received 5-star reviews from buyers who left enthusiastic comments praising the rare coin.
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“A+ pristine coin as advertised,” wrote one user.
Another commented: ” Great quality for coin collectors at a great price.”
While a third said: “Beautiful coin.”
It comes after a 50p coin proved to be a “true gem” thanks to its key details.
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The loose change rattling around in your pocket could be pieced together to form the Royal Shield of Arms design but it seems many people are unaware of this.
How to spot a 50p worth £50 and mule 20p that sells for £30
Matthew Dent redesigned the UK’s coins 16 years ago and now those designs are being replaced with the new UK coinage for King Charles III.
It was decided in 2005 that the country’s coinage was due an overhaul and The Royal Mint ran a competition for the public to submit their designs for the new-look coins.
Some 4,000 designs were submitted and The Royal Mint Advisory Committee selected Matthew Dent’s Royal Shield designs as the winner in 2008.
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The Royal coat of arms details a shield divided into four quarters representing England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Matthew’s winning design replaced Christopher Ironside’s Britannia depiction originally on the reverse of all 50ps.
Matthew said at the time: “I felt that the solution to The Royal Mint’s brief lay in a united design, united in terms of theme, execution and coverage over the surface of the coins.”
Using all the coins ranging from the 1p to the 50p, they fitted together rather like a jigsaw and formed a complete shield – as could be seen on the £1 coin design issued from 2008 to 2015.
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The old round pound was then replaced by the 12-sided Nations of the Crown £1 in 2017 and have now been withdrawn from circulation.
However, the definitive 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p and 50p shield coins are still in circulation, which means the Royal Shield can still be collected and completed, Change Checker says.
To help you get started you can obtain your own Royal Shield Collector Pack which comes with the Royal Shield 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p, so all you need to look for is the 50p in your change in order to complete it.
How to sell a rare coin
If, after checking, you realise you’ve come across a rare coin, there are a number of ways you can sell it.
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You can sell it on eBay, through Facebook, or in an auction.
But be wary of the risks.
For example, there are a number of scams targeting sellers on Facebook.
Crooks will say they’re planning to buy the item and ask for money upfront for a courier they’ll be sending around.
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But it’s all a ruse to get you to send free cash to them – and they never have any intention of picking your item up.
It’s always best to meet in person when buying or selling on Facebook Marketplace.
Ensure it’s a public meeting spot that’s in a well-lit area.
Avoid payment links and log in directly through the payment method’s website.
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Most sellers prefer to deal with cash directly when meeting to ensure it’s legitimate.
The safest way to sell a rare coin is more than likely at auction.
You can organise this with The Royal Mint’s Collectors Service. It has a team of experts who can help you authenticate and value your coin.
You can get in touch via email and a member of the valuation team will get back to you.
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You will be charged for the service, though – the cost varies depending on the size of your collection.
Meanwhile, you can sell rare coins on eBay.
But take into account that if you manage to sell your item then eBay will charge you 10% of the money you made – this includes postage and packaging.
Always keep proof of postage to protect yourself from dodgy buyers who may claim they never received the item.
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Send the parcel by tracked delivery if you can as this way they can’t claim it never arrived.
Most rare and valuable 50p coins
WE reveal the Royal Mint’s most rare and valuable 50p coins in circulation.
Triathlon
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Minted in 2011, the Triathlon 50p depicts the same sport which featured in the 2012 Olympics.
There are more than 1,160,000 of the coins in circulation.
With over 200million 50ps circulating in the UK, that makes this coin quite a rare find.
The highest recent sale we’ve found on eBay recently was £30 on June 21.
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Judo
Judo is a popular sport that involves grappling with your opponent.
But despite the design, it’s not so easy to get a hold of this coin, of which there are just 1,161,500 in circulation.
The piece was designed by David Cornell after he won a national competition.
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It was minted in 2011 and the highest bid we’ve seen on eBay was for £17.95 on June 21.
Wrestling
Wrestling was one of the first Olympic sports so it’s not surprising that it features on one of the 50p pieces.
The 2011 coin was designed by Roderick Enriquez, a graphic designer from Hammersmith, London.
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We’ve seen it sell for as much as £15 online so is worth digging around for.
In recent months, one was sold on eBay for £11.95 on June 18.
Football
Of all the coins created to commemorate the 2012 Olympic Games, the 50p Football is among the rarest.
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It features an explanation of the controversial offside rule on it, with 1,125,000 produced.
One sold for £20 on eBay on June 11, although it has been known to go for as much as £75 in the past.
Kew Gardens
The Kew Gardens 50p is the rarest of all the 50p pieces, with only 210,000 in circulation.
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They have been known to sell for as much as £895 on eBay before.
The design was created by Christopher Le Brun RA and features the famous Chinese Pagoda with a leafy chamber that twists around the tower.
The coin often sparks the interest of new coin collectors due to its rarity.
The highest sale we found in recent weeks was £142 on June 22 with 23 bids.
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The architect, collector and art patron Luca Bombassei is sitting comfortably on a long, pale sofa in the 15th-century Palazzo Contarini Corfù in Venice, just around the corner from the Accademia art gallery. He is surrounded with art and design, but there is a surprising diversity in his taste. Above him hangs a traditional painting — Canaletto’s “Architectural Capriccio with Classical Ruins” (1723) — and opposite that is a massive contemporary piece, “Life of Forms” (2017) by the American artist Nathlie Provosty.
“The idea was to create a dialogue between the two works, there are so many details in the Canaletto and then the Provosty is just all-black,” he says. Beside him on a table stands a sculpture by Ettore Sottsass of the Memphis Group of postmodern designers.
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The place almost dictates the art as much as the owner. In the adjoining library, a wall is covered with Venetian glassworks from the 1920s to the 1960s, displayed on shelving by Italian architect and designer Osvaldo Borsani. “When you live in Venice, you notice the special light that reflects through them,” Bombassei says. “They make me feel more Venetian!”
Bombassei was born in 1966 and lives between his flat in Venice, a masseria (fortified farmhouse) in Nardò, Apulia, and Milan, where his architectural practice specialises in the restoration of historical houses. “In Italy, there is a not a big distinction between architect and interior designer,” he says. “As I am a collector myself, I understand what it means to build a home around art, I have that sensitivity.”
He was brought up surrounded by art; his parents, the majority shareholders in the brake-disc company Brembo and collectors of traditional Italian art, still have an apartment in the neo-Gothic Casa dei Tre Oci on the island of Giudecca in Venice. As a young man he had to go through the cultural institute it housed at the time to get home in the evening. “My friends thought it was just incredible to live above a museum,” he laughs.
Bombassei’s Venetian home reflects the diversity of his taste, and he says he likes changing his mind and experimenting so that he can become “a better interior designer”. Along with the Canaletto and the Provosty, there is a portrait by Alex Katz (“East Interior”, 1979), an untitled Anish Kapoor wall sculpture from 1999 and Jenny Holzer’s 1987 LED piece “Laments: I am a man . . . ” which stands almost three metres tall, with red and yellow diodes spelling out the title. In his all-grey bedroom are a Sottsass Totem, a colourful stack of bulbous shapes, and a mushroom-like Gae Aulenti lamp. It is all shifted around regularly: “I always have a hammer and nails on me!”
Bombassei’s first love is Sottsass, of whom he has considerable holdings — from objects and furniture to limited editions. The designer, who experimented with colour, patterns and shapes and made furniture, glass and ceramic objects, was also an architect who worked in Milan. “He and his [Memphis] Group represented a period of innovation and they changed the way we think about design, bringing an artistic vision to design.” Together with Milan and Memphis, “Sottsass is my triangle of love.”
In Milan, Bombassei’s office is lined with wood panelling by Piero Fornasetti, a recreation of the decor originally in the Milanese apartment La Casa di Fantasia, designed by Gio Ponti for the Lucano family in 1952. In trompe l’oeil they show books, postcards and medallions on a floral background. The ensemble was bought at auction at Phillips in London in 2019 for £225,000.
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And then there is his home in Nardò, which he says gives him the space to commission large-scale works of art — not least an enormous yellow-and-blue work by the Swiss artist Olivier Mosset (“Wall Painting”, 2019), covering the roof. “When you walk on the roof you feel you are inside the work and at the same time you can see a 15th-century tower in the distance.”#
As well as overseeing his practice, Bombassei presides over the Venice International Foundation, which both helps safeguard the artistic heritage of Venice and promotes contemporary art. I am rather surprised by this — we meet during the Biennale, when the city is awash with contemporary art — but he explains that most Venetian foundations focus on what he calls the past-past. “We support the near-past, for example by sponsoring [this year’s Francesco] Vezzoli exhibition in the Museo Correr. Most people don’t see the wonderful Carlo Scarpa installations on the upper floor, so this encourages them to go up to see them as well as the Vezzoli,” he says.
What are his plans for the future? He looks a bit baffled, admitting that he hasn’t really thought about this. “I am so curious, I fall in love with new places and things all the time,” he says, so for the moment, he continues to plan, design and buy. As he says, “Collecting is a sort of addiction.”
The discounter, known for its bargain prices, is closing its branch in Deal today, Saturday 28.
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TOFS said the site, labelled “brilliant” by shoppers, will be shutting at the end of September.
The retailer thanked local shoppers for their support over the years.
A spokesperson from The Original Factory Shop said: “After the landlord informed us that they were redeveloping our Deal store, we were unable to renew the lease.
“We want to remain in town and our property team would consider any alternative suitable sites. We are working hard to support all of those colleagues that will be affected and seeking to redeploy them across our business.”
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The shock closure has left several local customers devastated, although the trader maintains around 190 branches nationwide.
One Facebook user said: “Such a terrible end to such a popular store.
“Obviously, this has not been a business decision as business was good, but another sign of the times.”
A second wrote: “Another piece of history and friendly staff gone.”
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A third commented: “I love this shop. I go to Deal, from Dover, regularly the main reason being the factory shop.
Britain’s retail apocalypse: why your favourite stores KEEP closing down
“Don’t think I will be shopping at Deal much after it closes.”
Another posted: “Oh no another brilliant shop closing but why? Love that shop.”
While a fifth said: “Such a shame. It was affordable and you could always get something good.
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“Now probably destined for townhouses and artisanal deli’s selling £4 sourdough bread.”
It comes after the retailer, known for selling everything from clothing to homeware and stationery, shut a number of branches last year.
But it’s not all bad news, as it has been opening stores across the UK too, as it shakes up its presence on the high street.
The full list of stores that have opened since August 2023 includes:
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Kirkintilloch – opened August 24
Stonehaven – opened August 31
Blandford Forum – opened August 31
Haddington – opened September 7
Wetherby – opened September 7
Nairn – opened September 14
Ashbourne – opened September 14
Castle Douglas – opened September 21
Penrith – opened September 21
Inverness – opened September 28
Attleborough – opened September 28
Ayr – opened October 5
Ringwood – opened October 5
Perth – opened October 12
Lanark – opened October 19
Peterhead – opened October 26
Why are retailers closing shops?
EMPTY shops have become an eyesore on many British high streets and are often symbolic of a town centre’s decline.
The Sun’s business editor Ashley Armstrong explains why so many retailers are shutting their doors.
In many cases, retailers are shutting stores because they are no longer the money-makers they once were because of the rise of online shopping.
Falling store sales and rising staff costs have made it even more expensive for shops to stay open. In some cases, retailers are shutting a store and reopening a new shop at the other end of a high street to reflect how a town has changed.
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The problem is that when a big shop closes, footfall falls across the local high street, which puts more shops at risk of closing.
Retail parks are increasingly popular with shoppers, who want to be able to get easy, free parking at a time when local councils have hiked parking charges in towns.
Many retailers including Next and Marks & Spencer have been shutting stores on the high street and taking bigger stores in better-performing retail parks instead.
Boss Stuart Machin recently said that when it relocated a tired store in Chesterfield to a new big store in a retail park half a mile away, its sales in the area rose by 103 per cent.
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In some cases, stores have been shut when a retailer goes bust, as in the case of Wilko, Debenhams Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Paperchase to name a few.
What’s increasingly common is when a chain goes bust a rival retailer or private equity firm snaps up the intellectual property rights so they can own the brand and sell it online.
They may go on to open a handful of stores if there is customer demand, but there are rarely ever as many stores or in the same places.
Retail woes
Other retailers, such as Homebase, Boots, and Clarks, have been reducing the number of their high-street branches.
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Rising rents, energy bills, and the cost of living have also caused many retailers to fail.
Several big retailers have fallen into administration in the past year, including Wilko, Paperchase, and most recently, The Body Shop and Ted Baker.
The openings form part of Aldi‘s long-term target of 1,500 stores in the UK.
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The supermarket is set to invest £550million in expanding its UK footprint this year alone.
Aldi said each new store opening will create around 40 new jobs on average.
In recent months, Asda has been opening hundreds of convenience stores as it seeks to rival major players Tesco and Sainsbury’s.
B&M plans to open “not less than” 45 brand new stores across the UK in each of the next two consecutive years.
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Purepay Retail Limited, the parent company of Bonmarché, Edinburgh Woollen Mill (EWM), and Peacocks, has said it wants to open 100 new high-street stores over the next 18 months.
It has yet to give the exact locations where it will open the 100 stores or when they will open.
When it’s low tide, visitors can reach the island by foot. During high tide, there’s the Burgh Island Sea Tractor – a hydraulics tractor that’s able to drive through the sea.
Members of the public can catch a ride on the tractor to the island from Bigbury-on-Sea and it costs £2 each way.
Hotel guests, who the sea tractor is primarily used for, do not have to pay to ride it.
The tractor operates 24 hours a day, Monday through to Saturday and Sunday, so hotel guests who don’t fancy walking during low tide can still hitch a ride.
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Despite the unusual way of getting there, some very famous people are said to have stayed there.
I left iconic UK seaside town to live on tiny Scottish island with just 60 people
Burgh Island itself is a popular destination for tourists who want to enjoy its views and wildlife, as well as its golden sand beach for swimming, sunbathing, and fishing.
Day visitors are welcome, with a visit to the Pilchard Inn pub recommended for lunch or dinner (reservations are required).
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There are also vineyards on Burgh Island, such as Sandridge Barton, which offers tours, tasting and wine shopping.
The island also plays host to regular events, including murder mysteries, island artist experiences, a Christmas and New Year party and a summer ball.
‘I stayed at Burgh Island Hotel…this is what I thought’
We had arrived following a comfortable three-hour train trip from London to Totnes then a taxi to Bigbury-on-Sea, where we first clapped eyes on the imposing hotel.
The only way to reach the Grade II listed building was by sea tractor.
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After loading our suitcases, tuxedo and evening gown on board, we took the five-minute ride to the island.
Walking into the hotel for the first time is like stepping back 100 years.
There is also the rest of the 26-acre island to enjoy. We explored it via several trails in the bracing sea air.
The end of the walk coincided with hitting upon the island’s 14th-century pub, The Pilchard Inn.
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Dressing for dinner in The Ballroom at the hotel is compulsory at this stunning Art Deco hotel on its small island 200 yards off the South Devon coast.
The hotel advises — and I wholeheartedly agree — to head to the bar for a “snifter” at around 7pm before dinner.
And twice a week, on Wednesday and Saturday nights, the house band will tempt you on to the dance floor.
The surroundings were on a par with the three-course dinner of lobster ravioli, pork loin and coffee macaroons.
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The hotel is probably best suited for adults and older teenage kids.
The cost to stay at Burgh Island Hotel varies depending on the dates and offers available.
A one-night stay for two adults on October 10, 2024, starts at £427.99, including taxes and fees.
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