The UK economy is proving extremely challenging for retailers.  With utility, grocery and petrol prices rising together with the credit crunch and the threat of redundancies; retailers are finding it increasingly difficult to ensure consumers keep spending.

Those retailers with yesterday’s strategies are rapidly losing market share whilst others are going out of business completely. 
    

Researchers have published a list of 20 functional foods that promote healthy living and could extend longevity – with coffee and dark chocolate featured alongside more traditional ‘healthy’ fruit and vegetables.

The cost of staple food items has jumped by more than 14% during the past year, research showed today. A basket of essential goods, such as bread, milk, rice, cheese, mince meat and fruit and vegetables, cost 14.3% more on 7 October than it did on the same day last year, according to website mySupermarket.co.uk .

The price of eggs is rocketing but who's dipping their bread in? Not us, say the hens. Not us, say the farmers. Not us, say the supermarkets. This story was in the Guardian and asked the question who is it then making these unreasonable profits.

Coca-Cola has started a multi million-pound pan-European advertising review of its Coke Zero brand, as part of the drinks company’s global plan to consolidate its agency rosters.